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The Wisconsin Capitol by Michael Edmonds
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Michael Edmonds

Former boxer Tommy Gibbons, Father Gordon, and Governor Fred Zimmerman at a Ho-Chunk ceremony in 1927 WHI IMAGE ID 84106 Governor Zimmerman’s adoption by the Ho-Chunk may have been a ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
Exile's Return by Malcolm Cowley & Donald W. Faulkner
epub |eng | 1994-12-01 | Author:Malcolm Cowley & Donald W. Faulkner [Cowley, Malcolm]

4: Significant Gesture During the last three weeks before sailing for America, I wrote no letters. I was much too excited to write letters; I had never, in fact, spent ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 5,2018 )
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin [Drury, Bob]

21 BURN THE BODIES; EAT THE HORSES Sitting Bull was angry. A month earlier, about when Red Cloud fell on Bridge Station, Sitting Bull’s Hunkpapas had tried to pick a ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Ron Chernow

CHAPTER 28 –– Beat the Devil Once a breezy, fun-loving young man, Max Warburg at sixty-six was far more somber and introspective. In his Kösterberg studio, which resembled an Italian ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2018 )
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1 by Norman Sherry
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

Written on the obverse and tucked into the dog’s collar, Greene’s reply was: Honoured Madame, In case you starve while your devoted husband is away I send you one toffee. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
Hesitation Kills by Jane Blair
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Blair

13 GARDEN OF EDEN A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Dancing with the Enemy by Paul Glaser
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Glaser

Rosie’s barrack (photo taken by Rosie in 1953) Everyone lost interest in exercising and the cabaret, and with nothing to do boredom returned and some were inclined to passivity. It ...
( Category: World April 4,2018 )
Finding the Dragon Lady by Monique Demery
epub | | | Author:Monique Demery [Demery, Monique Brinson]

FIGURE 1. Portrait of Tran Thi Le Xuan as a bride circa 1943 FIGURE 2. Portrait of Ngo Dinh Nhu circa 1963 FIGURE 3. Portrait of Tran Thi Le Chi, ...
( Category: Military April 4,2018 )
A Noble Treason by Hanser Richard
epub |eng | 2017-09-15 | Author:Hanser, Richard [Hanser, Richard]

Seven For a composition that was frankly seditious and meant risking death for its authors, the first White Rose leaflet began sedately, almost pedantically: “Nothing is more unworthy of a ...
( Category: World April 4,2018 )
The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Raymond Arsenault [Arsenault, Raymond]

Prior to the planning, however, the organizers faced the task of gaining permission to use the Memorial for such an unprecedented purpose. Here Walter White proved to be the indispensable ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
The Alexiad by Komnene Anna & Frankopan Peter & Sewter E. R. A
epub |zho | 2016-11-02 | Author:Komnene, Anna & Frankopan, Peter & Sewter, E. R. A. [Sewter, E. R. A.]

BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership April 4,2018 )
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 2 by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Norman Sherry

The paradox of Greene’s characters lies in the fact that out of the sinner comes the saint. In The End of the Affair hate is a source of love; in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3 by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

34 Warming Up to the Cold Scots ‘A Serbonian bog of politics’ – PROFESSOR BLACK IN ANOTHER MONTH, near the end of August 1965, Greene has a letter from Catherine, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
The Russia Hand by Strobe Talbott
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Strobe Talbott

JEKYLL AND HYDE The chronic uncertainty over who was really running Russia gave additional importance to Chernomyrdin’s visit to Washington for a commission meeting the first week in February. He ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
Jungvolk: The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich by Wilhelm R. Gehlen & Don A. Gregory
mobi |eng | 2008-06-19 | Author:Wilhelm R. Gehlen & Don A. Gregory [Gehlen, Wilhelm R.]

CHAPTER 16 Saint Nicholas Day, 1944 December 6 was Saint Nicholas Day, the day when children in Catholic countries get small pre-Christmas presents. The weather was clear and cold. Mr. ...
( Category: Drawing April 4,2018 )

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