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The Milwaukee Mafia by Gavin Schmitt
epub |eng | | Author:Gavin Schmitt

Pasquale Caruso and Waukesha’s Little Italy WHILE THE BULK of Wisconsin’s Sicilian Mafia was based in Milwaukee, the western suburb of Waukesha had its own Italian colony with its own ...
( Category: Americas July 30,2018 )
Marie Antoinette's Head. The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen and the Revolution by Will Bashor
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:Will Bashor

On the 12th of June 1791, around ten o’clock at night, Léonard opened a note which had just been delivered to him in his bedroom: Monsieur Léonard is requested to ...
( Category: World July 30,2018 )
The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine by Tony McKenna
epub |eng | 2016-07-28 | Author:Tony McKenna

Conclusion I wrote this biography of Stalin – and this account of Stalinism – in the second half of 2015. For those on the left, 2015 was an interesting year, ...
( Category: Historical July 29,2018 )
Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Erik H. Erikson

CHAPTER II Prophet in His Own Country * * * 1. WHY AHMEDABAD? FROM THE MOMENT in January of 1915 when Gandhi set foot on a pier reserved for important ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 29,2018 )
Becoming Madison : The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father (9781610392969) by Signer Michael
epub |eng | | Author:Signer, Michael [Signer, Michael]

ON MARCH 5, JOHN MARSHALL TOLD MADISON THAT HENRY, WHOSE “opinions have their usual influence,” was preparing for war against the new Constitution. He was publicly threatening that he would ...
( Category: Historical July 29,2018 )
Stars Between the Sun and Moon by Lucia Jang & Susan McClelland
epub |eng | 2014-10-11 | Author:Lucia Jang & Susan McClelland [Jang, Lucia & McClelland, Susan]

Chapter Seventeen From the day our great father’s son, whom we called the General, emboldened us to take up the mantle of the Arduous March, we mustered our nerve, put ...
( Category: Asia July 28,2018 )
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America by David O. Stewart
epub |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:David O. Stewart [Stewart, David O.]

20 THE REPUBLICAN WAY OF WAR Though he possessed neither military experience nor martial inclinations, Madison was cajoling and hauling the nation into what would become the War of 1812. ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2018 )
The Boxers, China, and the World by
mobi |eng | 2007-07-11 | Author:

it will be a shock to the modern sentiment of the civilised world if such orgies ... are to be the regular thing. Wherein will the much-boasted civilisation of the ...
( Category: Asia July 28,2018 )
Lulu's Christmas Story by Ludmilla Bollow
epub |deu | | Author:Ludmilla Bollow

Bad things happen on the farm, too. One afternoon, Uncle Steven doesn’t eat lunch with us because he is still in the fields trying to finish his work before the ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2018 )
Radical Friend by Nancy A. Hewitt
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy A. Hewitt

8 Coming Together, 1862–1872 On 25 March 1862, a year after Lincoln took office, Frederick Douglass gave a rousing oration on “The War and How to End It” at Rochester’s ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2018 )
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Paul Strathern [Strathern, Paul]

In the event, Leonardo’s plan would be rejected, as would that of Bramante (who fifteen years later would go on to design the basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome). But ...
( Category: Historical July 27,2018 )
Fierce Patriot by Robert L. O'Connell
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Robert L. O'Connell [O’Connell, Robert L.]

Chapter VIII BANDS OF STEEL 1 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN’S central historical importance is derived from his role in the physical consolidation of transcontinental America. But it was chance that tilted ...
( Category: Americas July 26,2018 )
C.D. Jackson by Stern John Allen;
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stern, John Allen; [Stern, John Allen;]

V While balloons seemed an unlikely choice of weapons with which to prosecute a war, they were the centerpiece of a covert-sabotage scheme called “Project Focus.” In the Byzantine world ...
( Category: Historical July 26,2018 )
Charles I by Christopher Hibbert
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Hibbert

9 Cavaliers and Roundheads 1642–7 THAT August day in Nottingham, when the Royal standard was raised in the driving rain, there were scarcely more than a thousand men at the ...
( Category: Historical July 26,2018 )
John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds
epub |eng | 2009-07-28 | Author:David S. Reynolds [Reynolds, David S.]

The dramatic slave-stealing episode had whetted the appetite of his backers for acceleration of the Virginia project. On March 4, San-born enthusiastically wrote Higginson about the slave rescue and reported, ...
( Category: Americas July 26,2018 )

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