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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis by Jeanne Theoharis
epub |eng | | Author:Jeanne Theoharis

River Rouge NAACP branch president Lasker Smith (also of Local 600) explained to Gloster Current, director of branches, that Parks was “experiencing acute financial hardships stemming from her sparking the ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
Far from the East End: The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home by Iris Jones Simantel
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:Iris Jones Simantel [Simantel, Iris Jones]

20 Methodists and Spiritualism After we’d settled into our new home and become accustomed to our surroundings, Dad began talking about the need for a church. ‘We need a Sunday ...
( Category: Memoirs March 11,2018 )
A Jew Among Romans by Frederic Raphael
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Frederic Raphael [Raphael, Frederic]

a Damascus, the capital of modern Syria, was the locus of the blood libel that, in 1840, was seconded by the French consul in the city. b Unlike Nero’s Golden ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
William II (Penguin Monarchs) by John Gillingham
epub |eng | 2015-07-28 | Author:John Gillingham

5 Normandy, Maine and Britain Winning the war of 1088 did not mean that Rufus’s brother was no longer dangerous. Odo of Bayeux – that ‘fire-breathing dragon’, as Orderic called ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
The Clerics of Islam by Nabil Mouline
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Nabil Mouline [Mouline, Nabil]

7 RAISING THE VEIL ON THE CONDITIONS OF ACCESS TO THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT FROM SELF-MADE MEN TO HEIRS: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE ULAMA The predication of Muhammad ibn Abd ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
Death Row All Stars by Enss Chris & Howard Kazanjian
epub |ara | 2014-09-02 | Author:Enss, Chris & Howard Kazanjian

Warden Alston’s son poses with members of the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars. Joseph Seng is in the back row, far left. Wyoming State Archives, Dept. of State Parks & ...
( Category: Baseball March 11,2018 )
1910240192 (N) by Steve McClure
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Steve McClure [McClure, Steve]

– CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – HAVE NO FEAR Fear is the single factor holding most climbers back from reaching their potential. Fear will prevent them from climbing even the easiest of ...
( Category: Embedded Systems March 11,2018 )
The Quiet Man by John H. Sununu
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:John H. Sununu

6 Free-Market Policies for the Environment and Energy On November 30, 1988, seven weeks before taking office, at a breakfast meeting in the White House, George Bush met with a ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
An Autobiography of Jack London by Jack London
epub |eng | | Author:Jack London

Chapter 18 A Pacific Traverse Sandwich Islands to Tahiti.—There is great difficulty in making this passage across the trades. The whalers and all others speak with great doubt of fetching ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 11,2018 )
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson by Francis D. Cogliano
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Francis D. Cogliano

CHAPTER NINETEEN Thomas Jefferson and Affairs of the Heart BILLY L. WAYSON “In order to understand him,” Ellen Coolidge advised Grand Papa’s biographer, “You must understand those by whom he ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke by Henry Hemming
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Hemming [Hemming, Henry]

PYKE HUNT, PART 4 On 19 March – the day that Combined Operations agreed to go ahead with the Plough scheme – Special Branch filed a new report casting Pyke ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin
epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Don Lattin [Lattin, Don]

Teacher: Marin County, California Summer 1966 It was all too far-out for Huston Smith, the MIT philosophy professor and ordained Methodist minister. He’d come to San Francisco not with flowers ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 11,2018 )
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
epub |eng | | Author:David Talbot

21 THE EMPRESS OF CHINATOWN LIKE WILLIE BROWN, her longtime political comrade, Rose Pak mastered San Francisco by walking it. Young Willie, a transplant from the sleepy East Texas railroad ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
1568584989 (N) by Delphine Schrank
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-05-08 | Author:Delphine Schrank [Schrank, Delphine]

THE BOTHER, then, about this sudden spot of trouble in which Nway found himself—hounded out of Rangoon by intelligence agents—was that he needed to be back in the action, not ...
( Category: Asia March 11,2018 )
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:John F. Kennedy

Throughout the country, and in all walks of life, as indicated by the correspondence of Members of the Senate, the condition of the public mind was not unlike that preceding ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 11,2018 )

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