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By Thomas Buergenthal - a Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (Expanded) (2015-04-22) [Paperback] by Thomas Buergenthal
epub |eng | 2015-04-22 | Author:Thomas Buergenthal [BUERGENTHAL, THOMAS]

CHAPTER 7 Into the Polish Army THE BIG SACHSENHAUSEN GATE WAS OPEN. Marek and I walked through it, under the administration building with its tower and the now-empty machine-gun nest ...
( Category: World August 25,2018 )
Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival by Geneviève Dubois
epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:Geneviève Dubois

Fig. 5.24. Announcement of the death of Jean-Julien Champagne Fig. 5.25. Grave of Jean-Julien Champagne at Arnouville-les-Gonesse (Seine-et-Oise). The plaque bearing the inscription APOSTOLUS HERMETICAE SCIENTIAE (Apostle of Hermetic Science) ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality August 25,2018 )
An Eye for Art by National Gallery of Art
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:National Gallery of Art

3 In Relief A relief is a type of sculpture that is raised from a flat surface rather than being sculpted “in the round.” Coins and medals are examples of ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions August 24,2018 )
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
epub |eng | 2018-05-28 | Author:Virginia Vallejo

* * * — IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOW, Pablo and I see each other once or twice a week. Every forty-eight hours I’m brought to a different location, and ...
( Category: Memoirs August 24,2018 )
9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her by Brion McClanahan
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Brion McClanahan [McClanahan, Brion]

THE NIXON SHOCK Following World War II, the United States and its industrial Western allies had signed an agreement known as Bretton-Woods. It created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 23,2018 )
Arthur Ashe by Raymond Arsenault
epub |eng | | Author:Raymond Arsenault

He also continued to come up with roughly the same results. Despite his lingering heel problem, he had played well during the six months prior to Wimbledon, and he did ...
( Category: Historical August 23,2018 )
Singapore Dream and Other Adventures by Hermann Hesse & Sherab Chodzin Kohn
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Hermann Hesse & Sherab Chodzin Kohn

KANDY PROMENADE The famous city Kandy lies in an oppressively narrow valley on a miserable, artificial lake. Apart from its ancient temple and its, of course, marvelous trees, it has ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by Brands H. W
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Brands, H. W. [Brands, H.W.]

Aaron Burr in his enigmatic prime Theodosia Burr Alston, her father’s darling, pupil and confidante Richmond Hill, where young Theo astonished New York with her maturity and grace The 1800 ...
( Category: Historical August 22,2018 )
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller
epub |eng | 2009-01-11 | Author:Casey Tefertiller

HAD JIM HUME NEVER LIVED IN THE WEST, the Westerns would have had to create him. Hume perfectly fit the image of a frontier hero: smart, brave, canny, and building ...
( Category: Americas August 22,2018 )
George W. Bush by James Mann
epub |eng | | Author:James Mann

7 Second-Term Changes Immediately following the 2006 congressional elections, George W. Bush took the momentous step he had been considering for several years. He announced that Donald Rumsfeld would step ...
( Category: Historical August 22,2018 )
Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali by P. James Oliver
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:P. James Oliver

While still in Gao, the Mansa toured the city. Its bustling trade and the great expanse of its lands delighted him, but when he saw the straw-roofed mud hut that ...
( Category: Historical August 21,2018 )
Safe Passage by Ida Cook
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Ida Cook

9 One morning early in December, 1938, I was called to the telephone to speak to one of the officials of an Austrian refugee organization. Did I, she asked, know ...
( Category: Historical August 21,2018 )
Von Braun by Michael Neufeld
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Michael Neufeld

To his parents, who he knew were less enthused, he reported it rather differently: “It was a terrible circus, with film crews, television, press people and the usual misquotations….I escaped ...
( Category: Engineering August 21,2018 )
Children of Las Vegas by Timothy O'Grady
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Timothy O'Grady

Bombs, Weddings, Vice and the Desert The little city boomed for twenty years after William Clark’s auction, then staggered. A rail strike provoked the removal of the maintenance works up ...
( Category: Sociology August 21,2018 )
Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders by Steven F. Hayward
epub |eng | 2005-10-03 | Author:Steven F. Hayward [Hayward, Steven F.]

Socialism wants to pull down wealth; Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests—Liberalism would preserve them in the only way they could justly be preserved, by ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2018 )

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