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Siege- Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Wolff

* * * While Trump was disrupting—or acting out at—the NATO summit, Bannon teamed up with Hannity to go to London, hoping to catch a ride on Hannity’s plane. Bannon ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 24,2019 )
Samuel Adams by Ira Stoll
epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Ira Stoll [Ira Stoll]

The results produced by the resolution were noted by James Warren in a letter to Samuel Adams: “Three millions of people on their knees at once, supplicating the aid of ...
( Category: American Revolution July 24,2019 )
Leonardo da Vinci by Martin Kemp
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Kemp

A hang glider constructed in 2002 by the British firm SkySport Engineering based on Leonard’s designs; it is shown here in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers July 22,2019 )
The Girl in the Cellar by Gerda Krebs Seifer
epub |eng | 2019-06-12 | Author:Gerda Krebs Seifer

Graduation from St. James Nursing School, 1949 (Gerda bottom row, second from left) * * * 9 Katowice is not far from Oświęcim, the site of the concentration camp, Auschwitz. ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2019 )
Ulysses S Grant by Edward H Bonekemper III
epub |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Edward H Bonekemper III [Bonekemper, Edward H III]

The answer was the same as in 1864: Lee would not move any troops from his beloved Virginia to oppose Sherman. He did, however, allow the 14,000 troops who had ...
( Category: American Civil War July 19,2019 )
The Ghost Reapers by Jackie Ferris
epub |eng | 2019-03-27 | Author:Jackie Ferris [Ferris, Jackie]

Chapter Thirty-One Alistair closed his eyes, picturing the scene in Abdul’s shop. Abdul would be certain he had the upper hand, because Akhoum had favoured him. Momentarily a lingering wisp ...
( Category: Historical July 19,2019 )
A Good American Family by David Maraniss
epub |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

* * * THE TAVENNER NAME was well known in Woodstock and its environs for influence and apples, which makes sense since the two were synonymous in the Shenandoah Valley. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 19,2019 )
Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Barry Strauss [Strauss, Barry]

THE JEWISH WAR Hadrian incited a new, massive Jewish revolt against Rome, lasting from 132 to 135. The proximate cause was probably his decision to refound Jerusalem as a Roman ...
( Category: Rome July 18,2019 )
Doc Holliday by Gary L Roberts
epub |eng | 2011-05-07 | Author:Gary L Roberts [Roberts, Gary L]

The scene in the sheriff’s office was chaos multiplied. Even there Mallon continued to nervously point his revolvers at Holliday, causing Doc to remark, “Oh you can drop that. Nobody ...
( Category: United States July 18,2019 )
Alexander II by Edvard Radzinsky
epub |eng | 2005-04-15 | Author:Edvard Radzinsky [Radzinsky, Edvard]

Dostoevsky published The Devils in 1873, when he had returned to Russia. In explaining the novel, Dostoevsky wrote that The Devils was not specifically about the Nechaev case, but much ...
( Category: United States July 18,2019 )
Nehru by Walter Crocker
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Walter Crocker [Crocker, Walter]

CHAPTER 4 The Man During my years in India I kept a collection of photographs of Nehru taken from the Indian press. The day was infrequent when some newspaper or ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
The Widow Washington by Martha Saxton
epub |eng | | Author:Martha Saxton

14. BETWEEN THE WARS: KIN, CONSUMPTION, CONFLICT The Rule and Measure of every good man … That [God] would supply him, not with curiosities or delicacies, but with necessaries; and ...
( Category: American Revolution July 18,2019 )
Becoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jay Jones
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Brian Jay Jones

And SPAZZ is a letter I use to spell Spazzim A beast who belongs to the Nazzim of Bazzim. Handy for traveling. That’s why he has ’im.28 The book was ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers July 18,2019 )
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Casey Cep

| 17 | The Gift Nelle Lee was twenty-three years old when she moved to Manhattan. By the time she arrived, Truman Capote had already grown sufficiently bored of New ...
( Category: Authors July 18,2019 )
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps by Ursula Buchan
epub |eng | | Author:Ursula Buchan

*The memorandum contained representative names from writers, clergy of every stripe, trade unionists, journalists and editors, politicians, intellectual Socialists and Liberal aristocrats. *Cf. Peter Pienaar and his fate in Mr ...
( Category: Authors July 18,2019 )

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