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Carl Jung by Claire Dunne
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Claire Dunne

Portraits at the Stock Exchange; pastel by Edgar Degas, c. 1879. Although very unusual for its time, or any time, Jung’s relationship with both Emma and Toni was openly known. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 7,2018 )
George Orwell by George Orwell
epub |eng | 2016-08-11 | Author:George Orwell

Eileen Blair* to Lettice Cooper* 23 March 1945 or thereabouts Greystone Carlton Dear Lettice, I’m sorry about the paper and the typewriter but Mary got at both. You practically can’t ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 7,2018 )
Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King by Audrey Truschke
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Audrey Truschke [Truschke, Audrey]

CHAPTER 6 Overseer of Hindu Religious Communities Protector of Temples [Ellora] is one of the finely crafted marvels of the real, transcendent Artisan [i.e., God]. —Aurangzeb describing the Hindu, Jain, ...
( Category: Asia April 7,2018 )
The Kimberlins Go to War by Michael B. Murphy
epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Michael B. Murphy

Defeat, Draft, and Emancipation With southern Indiana politicians fanning the flames, 1862 did not promise to be a good year for the Union cause in Indiana. Benjamin Kimberlin sounded hopeful ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
Reagan's America by Garry Wills
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Garry Wills

CHAPTER 26 HICCASP: G-Men II … professing next the Spie —Paradise Lost 4.948 Despite his deep engagement in the Hollywood strike that began in 1946, Reagan’s later account of it ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Mark Mazower

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Highgate A strong Russian connection has attached itself to Highgate over the years. Guryev, a phosphates magnate, is reportedly the current owner of the mansion that stands at ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Red Star Against The Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front by Vasily Emelianenko
mobi |eng | 2005-12-01 | Author:Vasily Emelianenko [Emelianenko, Vasily]

* * * * Tabachok is a diminutive form of tabak – tobacco. * ‘Humpback’ was a nickname for the Shturmovik Il-2 at the Russian front. 12 THE CAUCASUS We ...
( Category: Military April 7,2018 )
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774. by Philip Vickers Fithian
mobi |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Philip Vickers Fithian

Then he Bolts in Robert Carter. Page 57. Miss Polly Tolliver. [187] Page 59. Miss Steerman is a beautiful young Lady. Miss Jane Corbin. — Aphia Fantleroy. — — Edwards. ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jennifer Fleischner [Fleischner, Jennifer]

CHAPTER NINE On the morning after the inauguration, a dispatch from Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter, informing President Lincoln that the garrison’s supplies were nearly depleted, lay on the ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
I Celebrate Myself by Bill Morgan
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Bill Morgan

Once he located Peter, he hoped they could go south to the Red Sea port of Elat and get seamen’s jobs there to pay for their passage to India. He ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 7,2018 )
American Aristocrats by Harry S. Stout
epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:Harry S. Stout

The country to which they go, has many things to render it preferable to this; and after a few years I hope that they will be convinced that they have ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
Nixon, Volume II by Stephen E. Ambrose
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE TENTH CAMPAIGN September–December 1970 AT THE BEGINNING of the campaign season in 1970, James Reston wrote a piece on the mood of the electorate. He said that ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
A New America by Tommy Mottola
epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Tommy Mottola

CHAPTER NINE The Latin Explosion There was this Latin Explosion thing between me and Ricky Martin, and Enrique Iglesias and Marc Anthony. And all of us were kind of making ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 6,2018 )
A Slave No More by David W. Blight
epub |eng | | Author:David W. Blight

In 1865 John Washington buried his infant son, Johnnie, in the free soil of the District of Columbia, and Wallace Turnage followed a Maryland regiment back to the now free ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
Two Days in June by Andrew Cohen
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Andrew Cohen [Cohen, Andrew]

Before the burning monk, there had been no reason to discuss Vietnam with Rusk that morning. Although the Buddhists had been protesting there for weeks, Kennedy had not thought the ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )

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