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Dancing on Thin Ice by Arkady Polishchuk
epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Arkady Polishchuk

Citadel wall and old quarter of the city of Derbent, Republic of Dagestan. Circa 1880s/1890s. Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov via Wikimedia Commons. Yuri Yukhananov. 1975. IN A WAY, I was prepared ...
( Category: Historical October 11,2018 )
The Earth Is the Lord's by Caldwell Taylor;
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Caldwell, Taylor;

Chapter 11 Temujin sent his old foster father, Toghrul Khan, the head of Targoutai, wrapped in silk in a basket of wrought silver. With this engaging gift was enclosed a ...
( Category: Asia October 11,2018 )
On Growing Up Tough by Taylor Caldwell
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Taylor Caldwell

10 What Happened to American Men? This is a tough world and a violent one and always was and always will be. But I do believe in love. (Not “luv” ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 11,2018 )
Betty Ford: First Lady by Lisa McCubbin
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Lisa McCubbin [McCubbin, Lisa]

17 * * * Two Assassination Attempts One year after moving into the White House, in an interview with McCall’s magazine, Betty said, “I think I have learned over the ...
( Category: Americas October 11,2018 )
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Tilar J. Mazzeo]

In December, with no more reports of the fever, her father relented. Their oldest daughter, nine-year-old Angelica, who was studying French in Albany, wished to stay with her grandparents and ...
( Category: Americas October 11,2018 )
The Desert and the Sea by Michael Scott Moore
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Michael Scott Moore

XV Somebody unearthed an antique meat grinder from the bowels of the ship, and Sosan set to work on a three-day project to clean and reassemble it. He let the ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 11,2018 )
Eli Hurvitz and the creation of Teva Pharmaceuticals: An Israeli Biography by Yossi Goldstein
epub |eng | 2017-12-30 | Author:Yossi Goldstein [Goldstein, Yossi]

••• Eli’s tenure started off on a positive note. As president of the Manufacturers Association, and as head of the Coordinating Bureau of Economic Organizations, Eli tried to facilitate dialogue ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 10,2018 )
A Guide to Thomas Jefferson's Virginia by Laura A. Macaluso PhD
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Laura A. Macaluso PhD

The James River near Scottsville, Virginia. Author’s collection. MILE 39.05 Having travelled on what are now county routes 627 and 602, the equipage arrived at the Raleigh tavern, kept by ...
( Category: Photography & Video October 10,2018 )
Ruby Ridge by Jess Walter
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Jess Walter

( Category: Americas October 10,2018 )
Missouri Outlaws by Paul Kirkman
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Paul Kirkman

Jemison’s (sic) Jayhawkers, by Aldabert Volck. Jennison’s Jayhawkers were as notorious for pillage and murder in Missouri as Quantrill was in Kansas. Courtesy Library of Congress: LC-USZ62-100061. By the spring ...
( Category: Americas October 10,2018 )
Muhammad by Juan Cole
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Juan Cole

EVENTS IN THE Hejaz likely mirrored geopolitical struggles. The end of formal hostilities with Iran did not relieve the Romans of anxieties about the possibility of renewed Sasanian aggression. Constantinople ...
( Category: Middle East October 10,2018 )
The Cryotron Files by Iain Dey
epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Iain Dey [DEY, IAIN & BUCK, DOUGLAS]

Dudley and Virginia Buck and Glen Campbell move to Boston, Massachusetts, 1949. (Credit: Buck family archives) A copy of Buck’s electrical engineering junior staff rating, dated January 1951—an overall positive ...
( Category: Historical October 10,2018 )
Traveling with Che Guevara by Alberto Granado
epub |eng | | Author:Alberto Granado

Huambo, 14 April 1952 Today we saw the other part of the hospital, the patients’ section. If we got a sorry impression of where the staff work, the area where ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 10,2018 )
Inside Story by Philip Webster
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:Philip Webster

But it went on because Blair declined to sack Brown, probably fearing he would be even more dangerous on the back-benches. One Blairite confided to me at the time: ‘If ...
( Category: Historical October 10,2018 )
Principles of Posse Management by Chris Enss
epub |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Chris Enss [Enss, Chris]

Tiburcio Vasquez. Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California Undeterred by the swarm of lawmen and bounty hunters on their trail, Vasquez and his ever-growing number ...
( Category: Historical October 9,2018 )

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