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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
epub |eng | 1857-03-18 | Author:Mary Seacole

CHAPTER XII The British Hotel – Domestic Difficulties – Our Enemies – The Russian Rats – Adventures in Search of a Cat – Light-fingered Zouaves – Crimean Thieves – Powdering ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
The Young Elizabeth by Alison Plowden
epub |eng | 2011-08-06 | Author:Alison Plowden

This famous letter, polite but businesslike, written in a beautifully neat schoolgirl hand, is by any standards a masterpiece of its kind. Elizabeth had wasted no paper on protestations of ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 18,2018 )
Fit for the Presidency? by Seymour Morris
epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:Seymour Morris [Morris Jr., Seymour]

1928 Promising “a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage,” Herbert Hoover won by a landslide. Upon taking office he pursued his foremost priority and met with ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 18,2018 )
Endless Frontier by G. Pascal Zachary
epub |eng | | Author:G. Pascal Zachary

* * * The most curious aspect of the rapid selector was its hybrid nature; though Bush did not advertise the fact, the machine was part digital. Photographic images—microfilm images—were ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 18,2018 )
In America by Caitríona Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Caitríona Perry

Ohio PREACHER’S WIFE POPS PAIN PILLS IN PRISON ‘Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues,’ screamed the headline.12 Bodies stored in ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 18,2018 )
Mapping My Way Home by Stephanie Urdang
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Stephanie Urdang

20 — “Now I Need to Believe in Myself” I am once again in New York. With a specific task ahead, I feel more rooted. The re-entrance is smoother. I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 18,2018 )
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand
epub |eng | 2017-12-26 | Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

So, Tulloch is in London. He did not become a priest after all. He is married, and his adventures are over, like mine. This letter testifies to the truthfulness of ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2018 )
Drinking with the Republicans by Mark Will-Weber
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Mark Will-Weber

WHAT’S IN A NAME? In one of his early elections, an 1876 contest for a U.S. congressional seat, McKinley had to fight off accusations that he had frequently been intoxicated ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
Katherine Swynford by Jeannette Lucraft
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Jeannette Lucraft

CHAPTER 5 Construction of Identity The documentary evidence for Katherine’s life is limited to the writings of monks. Probable scenarios for Katherine’s upbringing and education can be uncovered using information ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
By the Olive Groves by Grazia Ietto Gillies
epub |eng | | Author:Grazia Ietto Gillies

Mamma Giulia’s cooking: quick, inexpensive, healthy pasta asciutta Sauces for pasta asciutta are numerous and very versatile. They can be based on vegetables, fish, meat or a mixture. They can ...
( Category: Memoirs March 18,2018 )
Road to Valor by Aili McConnon
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Aili McConnon [McConnon, Aili]

If bicycles shaped the rhythm of everyday life in postwar Italy, it was poverty and endemic joblessness that defined its spirit. Economic coverage in the newspapers of the era was ...
( Category: Individual Sports March 18,2018 )
Miracles Do Happen by Fela Rosenbloom
epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Fela Rosenbloom

Chapter Nine ANOTHER CHAPTER of my life began. I needed new documents that would allow me to stay in Barnaul. In the Soviet Union during wartime, it was obligatory for ...
( Category: World March 18,2018 )
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Rosalind Rosenberg

Adding “Sex” to Title VII Murray faced not just divided women’s and civil rights movements but also a problem inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause covered only ...
( Category: Women March 18,2018 )
The Last Lone Inventor by Evan I. Schwartz
epub |eng | | Author:Evan I. Schwartz

Any pretense that Zworykin had come to see Farnsworth as a colleague, on a cooperative scientific mission, was now shattered. This bit of corporate espionage was a clear act of ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
Drinking with the Democrats by Mark Will-Weber
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Mark Will-Weber

LAST CALL Seward had two reasons to be happy. There was Johnson’s acquittal, of course, but also Seward—an aficionado of fine wines—had bet someone a basket of champagne that Johnson ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )

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