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Lincoln and the Abolitionists by Fred Kaplan
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Fred Kaplan

SEVEN The Constitutional Rag At 5:00 P.M. on a cold Saturday in March 1848, the remains of John Quincy Adams were interred in a stone vault in Quincy, Massachusetts. It ...
( Category: Americas April 4,2018 )
Missileman by John Clauson
epub |eng | | Author:John Clauson

* * * Dad continued to find solace in his garage and in the routine established at home. Among other devices, he created a color-changing, “home built” laser beam during ...
( Category: Memoirs April 4,2018 )
President Reagan by Lou Cannon
epub |eng | | Author:Lou Cannon

AMAJORITY OF Americans strongly backed Reagan’s policies in 1984. While it was often said, sometimes in derogation, that Americans “liked” Reagan, his landslide victory was much more than a personality ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
A Village with My Name by Scott Tong
epub |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Scott Tong [Tong, Scott ]

Guangzhou honey prices are low. Shanghai prices also fell 10 percent. But that’s okay. As for needles, we can’t sell #22, but we can ship over #32. If the price ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 4,2018 )
The Season by Ronald Kessler
epub |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Ronald Kessler [Kessler, Ronald]

WINTER/SPRING FINALE 18. The Trumpster On Worth Avenue, a Christmas tree in the middle of the street in front of Tiffany’s marked the beginning of the season. Two stories tall, ...
( Category: Americas April 4,2018 )
Ringling by Weeks David C
epub |eng | 1993-04-04 | Author:Weeks, David C. [Weeks, David C.]

The great bronze doors of the William Astor home, New York. Ringling purchased the doors for the front entrance to his art museum. American Art Association auction catalog, April 1926. ...
( Category: Americas April 4,2018 )
Justice Brennan by Seth Stern
epub |eng | | Author:Seth Stern [Stern, Seth]

NO MATTER HOW hard Brennan tried to give Burger the benefit of the doubt, the new chief justice kept giving new cause for concern early in 1970. He showed every ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker by Crane Elaine Forman;
epub |eng | | Author:Crane, Elaine Forman;

* * * 1. HSD's farm in Pennsbury, Bucks County, Pa. 2. William Buchan, Domestic Medicine; or, The Family Physician: Being an Attempt to Render the Medical Art More Generally ...
( Category: Americas April 4,2018 )
Estuary by Rachel Lichtenstein
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Rachel Lichtenstein

Jane spoke at length about the fishing community, the neighbours and the church, who pulled together and rallied around her. ‘They were everything that you could want a community to ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 4,2018 )
German Boy by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
epub |eng | 2000-04-04 | Author:Wolfgang W. E. Samuel

Chapter 13 A WINTER NIGHTMARE We moved out of our comfortable room the week following my grandfather’s arrest by the Communists. There was no use arguing with Paul. Some of ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Sea Stories by Captain Richard Metz
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Captain Richard Metz

Heading Out In the morning, I signed on the rest of the crew and we readied the ship. The following day, we had our inspection, and the chief engineer said ...
( Category: Americas April 4,2018 )
The Man Who Sank Titanic by Sally Nilsson
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Sally Nilsson

Most desirable Titanic crew aboard ‘Carpathia’ should be returned home earliest possible. Suggest you hold ‘Cedric’, sailing her Friday unless you see any reason on contrary. Propose returning on her ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango
azw3 |eng | 2002-08-26 | Author:Andrew Mango [Mango, Andrew]

The Turkish and Greek armies in Anatolia were of roughly equal strength. The Greeks had 225,000 men, the Turks 208,000. But the Greeks were better equipped, with more machine-gums and ...
( Category: Middle East April 4,2018 )
Xerxes by Richard Stoneman
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Stoneman

CHAPTER SIX Invasion (II): The Wooden Walls The daring Greeks deride the martial shew And heap their vallies with the gaudy foe. Th’insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains, A ...
( Category: Asia April 3,2018 )
Journal 1935–1944 by Mihail Sebastian
epub |eng | | Author:Mihail Sebastian

( Category: Europe April 3,2018 )

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