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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Barbara Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Barbara]

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE WORST GANG TWENTY-THREE years had passed since Seneca Falls and the first glimmering of woman’s rights. To celebrate that anniversary, the National Woman Suffrage Association scheduled a ...
( Category: Women's Studies January 23,2019 )
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Leonie Frieda

Chapter 13 A King Restored As her son progressed from despondency to despair and, ultimately, to near-death, Louise was doing her considerable best to ensure that the regency continued as ...
( Category: Europe January 23,2019 )
Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas Pere
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Alexandre Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Alexandre (Pere)]

CHAPTER X The next day a still more extraordinary scene took place. While M. de Laubardemont was questioning one of the nuns, the superior came down into the court, barefooted; ...
( Category: True Crime January 23,2019 )
Hugh Glass - Bruce Bradley by Bruce Bradley
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Bradley

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ST. LOUIS--MARCH, 1820 WEST OF THE Missouri, things were beginning to warm up. That's what everyone said, anyway. Within the next ten years, settlements would sprout up in ...
( Category: Historical January 23,2019 )
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]

But the letter is so plainly Theodore’s idea of humor—tall-tale humor out of the Wild West—that it suggests there was no “problem” as yet. That he would treat a subject ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2019 )
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo
epub |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

CHAPTER 12 Toward the Precipice Warsaw, 1943 A knock at three a.m. never meant anything but disaster, so the quiet tapping that startled Irena from her sleep one night in ...
( Category: World January 22,2019 )
Artists in Nazi-Occupied France by Werner Lange
epub |eng | 2018-07-29 | Author:Werner Lange

—————— 1. André Metthey, a very active art dealer under the Occupation. The owner of the Élysée Gallery. (EdN) THE RUDIERS The Rudier Art Foundries1 were located in Malakoff, at ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2019 )
Lenin by Lars T. Lih
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lars T. Lih

4 Three Train Rides ‘A new era of revolutions is drawing near.’ Karl Kautsky, 1909, as paraphrased by Lenin, 1914 Krakow to Bern In the early summer of 1914 Lenin ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 20,2019 )
Mayada by Jean Sasson
epub |eng | 2007-07-04 | Author:Jean Sasson [Jean Sasson]

Other voices began softly to hum, learning the new words as they went along. As the women continued singing, five additional guards stalked into the room. They held rifles at ...
( Category: Middle East January 18,2019 )
Remembering America by Richard N. Goodwin
epub |eng | | Author:Richard N. Goodwin

16 / Lyndon’s Landslide IN THE MIDDLE of all this we won a presidential election. In retrospect it was an astonishing performance. This “accidental” president, who could never have reached ...
( Category: Americas January 18,2019 )
India by Shashi Tharoor
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Shashi Tharoor [Tharoor, Shashi]

MB Rajesh Working his way up from the grass-roots of the political system, MB Rajesh belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Rajesh was elected to the Lok Sabha ...
( Category: Asia January 18,2019 )
A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

Upon this Coast our Rovers cruiz’d for about nine Weeks, keeping generally out of Sight of Land, but without seeing a Sail, which discourag’d them so, that they determined to ...
( Category: World January 18,2019 )
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story by William Hazelgrove
epub |eng | | Author:William Hazelgrove

We left Kitty Hawk at daybreak on last Tuesday and reached home at 3 PM on Friday after a very exciting but tiresome trip…. Into the last ten days of ...
( Category: Transportation January 18,2019 )
The Caesar of Paris by Susan Jaques
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Susan Jaques

In addition to gathering the world’s finest art, Napoleon planned to place all European learning in a world library in Paris. His unrealized plan was to move the Bibliothèque Impériale ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2019 )
Murder in Battle Creek by Blaine L. Pardoe
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Blaine L. Pardoe

Chapter 5 NEW HOPES I knew something was wrong—the kitchen rug was wadded up against the sink. Floyd Zick Battle Creek Enquirer and News January 15, 1963 We’ve all become ...
( Category: World January 17,2019 )

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