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Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Richard Henry Dana [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 6,2018 )
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Sojourner Truth [Truth, Sojourner]

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 6,2018 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 6,2018 )
To the Scaffold by Carolly Erickson
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Carolly Erickson [Erickson, Carolly]

march to the defense of the Dutch, and many doubted whether France could defend herself if attacked. Once the most feared military power in Europe, France had been reduced to ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2018 )
Great Harry by Carolly Erickson
epub |eng | 1979-12-31 | Author:Carolly Erickson [Erickson, Carolly]

sacrament he felt more secure, and announced himself to be "armed towards God and the world." He drew even more security from the unsullied state of his conscience, believing that ...
( Category: Europe March 6,2018 )
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
epub |eng | 1982-12-31 | Author:Carolly Erickson [Erickson, Carolly]

Irish red to amber or auburn, any hue was possible, along with the startling, but undeniably trend-setting, shades of purple and orange and speckled yellow. Women departed less spectacularly at ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 6,2018 )
Native Chiefs and Famous Métis by Holly Quan
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Holly Quan

( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )
When Hell was in Session by Admiral Jeremiah Denton & Ed Brandt
mobi |eng | 2009-11-11 | Author:Admiral Jeremiah Denton & Ed Brandt [Denton, Admiral Jeremiah]

The prisoners of Alcatraz would begin to stir during the dark, quiet, early morning hours. The lids on the buckets would rattle, and the sound of coughing and spitting would ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )
We Are Here by Fiona Harari
epub |eng | 2018-01-29 | Author:Fiona Harari [Harari, Fiona]

Rina Schuldiener BORN: Rivka Perl 28 April 1922 Sucha, Poland Rina Schuldiener did not stop mourning. Not when she was shoved away from her Auschwitz-bound parents as they were being ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 5,2018 )
My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry
epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Mary Frances Berry [Berry, Mary Frances]

Neither the certificate nor the Freedmen’s Headlight asserted that the pension bill had passed. It also specifically affirmed the importance of the mutual-aid function of the association that so attracted ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 5,2018 )
Building the Great Society by Joshua Zeitz
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Joshua Zeitz

PART III CHAPTER 10 Guns and Butter I don’t want to be known as a war president,” Lyndon Johnson insisted in the summer of 1965. Franklin Roosevelt would forever be ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 5,2018 )
Remains by J. Warren
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:J. Warren [Warren, J.]

SIXTEEN On the way home, I decided something. I couldn’t have told anyone what it was, but something seemed more firm in my head. Because of that, I found myself ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )
Humane Insight by Courtney R. Baker
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Courtney R. Baker [Baker, Courtney R.]

I was not bending. That box had to come open. I mean, I didn't even know what we would find inside. There could have been bricks, mud, someone else's body. ...
( Category: Anthropology March 5,2018 )
Like the Roman by Simon Heffer
epub |eng | 2014-06-19 | Author:Simon Heffer [Simon Heffer]

He warned that the government of a free country could not wash its hands of responsibility for free speech, and nor could individual members of the public. He also used ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 5,2018 )
Che Guevara Reader by Ernesto Che Guevara
epub |eng | | Author:Ernesto Che Guevara [Deutschmann, David]

First heroic stage This was the first heroic period, and in which combatants competed for the heaviest responsibilities, for the greatest dangers, with no other satisfaction than fulfilling a duty. ...
( Category: World March 5,2018 )

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