Historical
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Robin Flinchum

In Rhyolite, the dance halls, brothels and cribs were confined to a square block-and-a-half area, with Vaughn’s brothel marking the northwest outer limits. Officially, the district was bounded on the ...
( Category: United States April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Birmingham

12 LEGENDS AND LEGACIES Each of the old families has its favorite legend, and Aunt Elvira Nathan Solis knew them all. Some of the most romantic, to be sure, involved ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Lyndal Roper

48. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, 1532. Here Luther created a bridge between monastic community and secular household. It was not only huge – certainly bigger than the home ...
( Category: Religious April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-03 | Author:Sarah H. Bradford [Bradford, Sarah H.]

"I'll meet you in de mornin', When you reach de promised land; On de oder side of Jordan, For I'm boun' for de promised land." The brothers started with her, ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-02 | Author:Norse Sagas [Sagas, Norse]

( Category: European April 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Celia Sandys

Having read in Haldane’s diary how Brockie railed against Churchill after the escape, I thought I would approach Brockie’s family for an explanation. It seems that any resentment on Brockie’s ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers April 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Joanna Scutts [Scutts, Joanna]

6 MAD ABOUT NEW YORK Marjorie Hillis wrote Live Alone and Like It for all the girls and women who, like Kitty Foyle, dared to leave their hometowns for the ...
( Category: Feminist Theory April 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:Julia Keller [Keller, Julia]

CHAPTER SIX "A LITTLE GATLING MUSIC ” I remember the ceaseless bombing thunder that shook the house, like an earthquake, the futile popping of revolvers, the whining shells overhead . ...
( Category: United States April 19,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Michael Collins

All that from the cockpit of a Spitfire. What could he have said after one orbit? I cry that he was killed. * * * Day 4 begins with the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Nancy Isenberg & Andrew Burstein

HEAPED UPON John Quincy Adams attended Madison’s inauguration on March 4, 1809, and was present as well at a ball that evening attended by the outgoing president, Jefferson. “The crowd ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Brinkley, Douglas

ON A PARALLEL track, TV might have been invented for the use of space explorers. Throughout history, earthly explorers to unknown locales had returned with copious sketches and maps in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

ON A PARALLEL track, TV might have been invented for the use of space explorers. Throughout history, earthly explorers to unknown locales had returned with copious sketches and maps in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-13 | Author:Caitlin Murray

CHAPTER 15 “Okay, This Is Our Payback” When the national team returned to the U.S. from losing the 2011 Women’s World Cup, they returned as, well, losers—at least in the ...
( Category: Women in History April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Jack Jones [Jones, Jack]

Mark David Chapman awoke to a birdlike pecking against the car window. He twisted his head, opened his eyes, and peered through a vaporous mist. An elderly Japanese man with ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals April 14,2019 )