Historical
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Robert Morgan

MEANWHILE POLK still had to resolve the Oregon question. Using the cries of “54°40′ or Fight” and “All of Oregon or None” that swept the country, repeated in newspapers and ...
( Category: Historical July 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Richard Sanders

Only through such terror did the planters believe they could find security. But for the governments in London and Paris these were dream colonies. They complemented but did not compete ...
( Category: Historical July 21,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-18 | Author:Osborne Russell

CHAPTER XIX Fort William—A Cool Reception—Sioux Sign Language—Three Miles of Deer in One Band 12th—The sun rose clear and warm and we found ourselves much refreshed by our night’s rest. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 19,2018 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:László Krasznahorkai

Stein says that this is indeed very praiseworthy, but what kind of effect does it have on what goes on in the monastery courtyards? And on the soul of a ...
( Category: Ethnic & National July 19,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-17 | Author:Frederick Douglass Opie

FEMALE-SPECIFIC REMEDIES Women also worked in the turpentine camps and suffered their own hardships. Camp officials mistreated female the same as male workers. Men and women slept in the same ...
( Category: Americas July 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Martha Walker Freer [Freer, Martha Walker]

"Monsieur mon fils, "Having heard from the queen my daughter, and from the Sieur de St. Sulpice, and by your ambassador, that it has pleased your majesty to permit your ...
( Category: Historical July 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 1991-08-15 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

12 For Country, Party, and Self LYNDON’Selection as majority Whip in January 1951 encouraged a belief among Washington insiders that he was a rising star in the Senate and Democratic ...
( Category: Historical July 19,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-04-16 | Author:William Taubman [Taubman, William]

THE WEATHER in Washington was hot; the sky above Andrews Air Force Base was cloudless. Flags of both countries fluttered in a slight breeze while the fifty-six-piece military band’s shiny ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 19,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Scott Crow

With Thunder in Our Hearts In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead. —Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part ...
( Category: Americas July 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY During the following morning, 7 June, British troops captured Bayeux with relative ease; the first French city to be liberated. British soldier inspecting identity cards of ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-05-25 | Author:Robert Sobel [Sobel, Robert]

9 President When I became president it was perfectly apparent that the key by which the way could be opened to national progress was constructive economy. Only by the use ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-13 | Author:Helen Castor

Now that Elizabeth was beyond doubt the last of the Tudor line, the unacknowledged heir she kept under guard at Sheffield embodied a yet more intractable dilemma and a yet ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Ernst Jünger

In Flers, I found my designated quarters had been occupied by several staff sergeant-majors, who, claiming they had to guard the room on behalf of a certain Baron von X, ...
( Category: Europe July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-03 | Author:Mark Tully [Tully, Mark]

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Philip Ball

BACK TO THE BENCH At Colmar, Oporinus left his master, exhausted by his demands, and returned to Basle. Despite some attempts by biographers to cast this separation as acrimonious, there ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )