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Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin by Rae Katherine Eighmey
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Rae Katherine Eighmey

POT-ROASTED CHICKEN When he visited Sheffield, England, Benjamin Franklin purchased a special silver-lined copper pot for cooking chickens on top of a room-heating stove. He left it behind when he ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Kaiser Wilhelm II by John Van der Kiste
epub |eng | 2013-07-20 | Author:John Van der Kiste

CHAPTER FIVE The Quill and the Sword Kaiser Wilhelm II had rightly seen in Joseph Chamberlain the British government’s main proponent of an Anglo-German alliance. While Chamberlain’s speech of December ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy by Fuller-Seeley Kathryn H.;
epub |eng | | Author:Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H.;

SIX The Commercial Imperative JACK BENNY, ADVERTISING, AND RADIO SPONSORS “Jack’s success as a salesman in moving goods, first for General Foods and then American Tobacco, was absolutely incredible,”1 recalled ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Becoming Abraham Lincoln by Richard Kigel
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Richard Kigel

CHAPTER 19 “I found him no green horn.” As the deep snows melted in the spring, a fresh new breeze blew in off the Sangamon River. He was loud and ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Diana Mosley by Anne de Courcy
epub |eng | | Author:Anne de Courcy

Diana’s fourth son, Max, was born on 13 April in a Sutton nursing home. After three boys, many women would have wanted a daughter, but Diana was delighted. She had ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 14,2018 )
A Thousand Miles of Dreams by Welland Sasha Su-Ling;
epub |eng | | Author:Welland, Sasha Su-Ling;

Shuhua told Hu Shi that she had discussed with Xu Zhimo a plan for him to leave the country to extricate himself from potential scandal. She asked Hu Shi to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
Sign My Name to Freedom by Betty Reid-Soskin
epub |eng | 2018-01-11 | Author:Betty Reid-Soskin

Monday mornin’ . . . streets are bare . . . seems as how dey don’ want me nowhere since ah went to the Courthouse and sign mah name to ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

AS MARCO veered back toward the east, heading for Hangzhou, he traveled the rivers of China. Although he was familiar with the sight of the canals of Venice teeming with ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2018 )
THE COWBOY PRESIDENT by Michael F. Blake
epub |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Michael F. Blake

He was all teeth and eyes . . . He was scratched, bruised, and hungry, but gritty and determined as a bulldog . . . As I approached him he ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
The Genius in the Design by Jake Morrissey
epub |eng | | Author:Jake Morrissey

FOUR MONTHS LATER, on October 9, eight artists and architects, including Bernini, presented their solutions. As the official Architect of St. Peter’s, Bernini also was expected to put forward his ...
( Category: Architecture March 14,2018 )
Muhammad--His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Lings [Lings, Martin]

Nu'aym went back through the town and made his way to the Bani Qurayh, who welcomed him as an old friend and offered him food and drink. "I came not ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 14,2018 )
Coleridge by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Holmes

7 Meanwhile, throughout February and March, there was a complete absence of letters from England, since the Elbe remained frozen and very little domestic mail reached Hamburg.50 Coleridge was increasingly ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 14,2018 )
Fatal Discord by Michael Massing
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Michael Massing

30 Satan Falls upon the Flock On December 4, 1521, Luther rode into a very tense Wittenberg. On the previous morning, a gang of students and townsmen with knives hidden ...
( Category: History March 14,2018 )
Rory Gallagher by Marcus Connaughton
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Connaughton

This publicity still for Mercury Records shows Rory and Jerry Lee Lewis ‘The Killer’ in studio for a London Sessions. Jerry Lee Lewis reclines at the piano as (l-r) guitarists ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
Ibn Khaldun by Irwin Robert
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Irwin, Robert

CHAPTER SEVEN Messages from the Dark Side Initially the Muqaddima set out to explore the underlying forces behind history and the correct way of understanding them. But the scope of ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )

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