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The Burning of the White House by Jane Hampton Cook
epub |eng | 2016-07-28 | Author:Jane Hampton Cook

Scott reached Cockburn’s and Ross’s “shepherd’s quarters” at two o’clock in the morning of August 24. He gave the message to Cockburn, who read it. Keeping his composure, Cockburn waited ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2018 )
THE MAGNIFICENT ROGUE by The Magnificent Rogue
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:The Magnificent Rogue [Rogue, The Magnificent]

8 She had no opportunity to ask Gavin anything for the rest of the day. Instead of staying by her side as he usually did when on the trail, he ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2018 )
Alter Egos by Mark Landler
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Mark Landler

Nine Red Lines Barack Obama wanted to get out of the office. The West Wing, airless and tense at the best of times, felt like it was going to war ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2018 )
Pie 'n' Mash and Prefabs by Norman Jacobs
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:Norman Jacobs [Norman Jacobs]

CHAPTER SEVEN JELLY AND ICE CREAM THE CORONATION The earliest special day I can remember was the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. I was just four years old when King ...
( Category: Europe January 14,2018 )
Dear World by Bana Alabed
epub |eng | | Author:Bana Alabed

Mummy also went to school for three days like me. It wasn’t the same as her university classes, but she and her friends had a school where they learned and ...
( Category: Middle East January 14,2018 )
How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain by Alan Pell Crawford
mobi |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Alan Pell Crawford

WHEN TWAIN MET PAIGE and saw Paige’s work in progress, he was greatly impressed. He went to the Colt Armory, “promising myself nothing,” but came away eager to invest. Paige ...
( Category: Humor January 13,2018 )
Alexander Graham Bell by Edwin S. Grosvenor
epub |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:Edwin S. Grosvenor [Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson]

Until the expiration of Alexander Graham Bell’s patents in 1893 and 1894, only the richest North Americans could afford telephones. Now the legal system that had protected one man’s invention ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 13,2018 )
Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Means

Exactly a month into the siege—the night after the press left—the feds initiated one of the fiercest firefights of the struggle. Fifty-caliber tracer rounds rained on Wounded Knee, skipping off ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 13,2018 )
After the Civil War by James Robertson
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:James Robertson [Robertson, James]

GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE LAYING THE TRACKS FOR EXPANSION JAY GOULD OWNED the Union Pacific Railroad, but the man most responsible for its creation was Massachusetts native Grenville Mellen Dodge. A ...
( Category: Americas January 13,2018 )
The Somme by Peter Hart
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Peter Hart [Hart, Peter]

The surviving German machine guns gave the Australians the unwanted chance to judge the killing potential of these guns in the relatively open fields of the Somme battlefields compared to ...
( Category: Military January 12,2018 )
Marlborough: His Life and Times by Winston Churchill
mobi |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Winston Churchill

When the Duke of Savoy receives these dispatches, and secs how earnest the Queen is in giving him all the assistance that is possible, it will encourage H.R.H. to continue ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 12,2018 )
New Scientist - 13 Jan 2018 by New Scientist
epub |eng | 2018-01-12 | Author:New Scientist [Scientist, New]

Next year preview 19 December 2017 2018 preview: Gene therapy treats disease while in the womb Dr G. Moscoso/Science Photo Library By Andy Coghlan “You can see during pregnancy that ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2018 )
Washington by James Thomas Flexner
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:James Thomas Flexner

* The term cabinet, although too useful not to be used here, was not current during most of Washington’s Presidency. TWENTY-NINE The Social Man (1789) The aspect of the Presidency ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2018 )
Desert Warrior by Desert Warrior
epub |eng | | Author:Desert Warrior

Tariq hung up the phone for the fourth time. He was annoyed by his wife's subtle rebellion, but another, more dangerous emotion threatened. That emotion would not let him forget ...
( Category: Middle East January 11,2018 )
The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Bill Minutaglio

SUPREME SERVANTS Early February 1971 On February 1, Cleaver’s broadcast from the heart of the Algerian outpost—detailing how Timothy Leary’s mind was “blown by acid”—is aired on radio stations around ...
( Category: Historical January 11,2018 )

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