Historical
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:Greg Steinmetz

If the story of the imperial election held a universal truth it was this: Left to their own devices, many politicians will milk a financial opportunity for all it’s worth. ...
( Category: Europe December 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-03-12 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

17 Duties and pleasures 1766–67 “My Dear Child,” Franklin wrote Debbie a little later, packing a box for shipment home: As the Stamp Act is at length repealed, I am ...
( Category: Americas November 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-30 | Author:Richard Bradley [Richard Bradley]

Over the course of the twentieth century, as the number of Jews attending Harvard grew, the university compiled a distinctly uneven history of tolerance and acceptance. To put it another ...
( Category: Americas November 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: Historical November 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Raven

As the days passed and excitement mounted among gentlemen of the fancy, Spotty emerged a clear favourite at 6 to 4 on, though respectable sums were invested on James (by ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Peter Ross Range [Range, Peter Ross]

Stenglein’s drastic move made headlines. “Hitler Trial Session Blown Up,” declared the Vossische Zeitung on its front page; “You’ve Gone Too Far,” headlined its columnist. Foreign newspapers were taking notice. ...
( Category: World November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:James Riley [Riley, Jamesh Caption]

CHAPTER XVII. Some fresh fish are procured—they pass several small walled villages, and meet with robbers on horseback NEAR evening we met and passed a man driving an ass laden ...
( Category: Sociology November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:John F. Kennedy [Kennedy, John F.]

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 November 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:James C. Humes

‘YE MEN OF VALOUR’ 1940, London On this May Trinity Sunday in the Anglican Church calendar, Churchill delivered a radio address to rally a falling France whose defense at the ...
( Category: Historical November 29,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-02-28 | Author:William C. Carter

I Am a Novelist A sure indication that Proust had begun writing the Search is his July 17, 1909, letter to Hahn. Marcel first told Reynaldo some harmless gossip about ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 29,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Lee B. Kennett

General Robert E. Lee in 1863, photographed at the studio of Minnis and Cowell in Richmond. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lee’s imposing appearance before the flaming Chancellor tavern was a classic ...
( Category: Americas November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Blaine Harden [Harden, Blaine]

CHAPTER 10 Uncle Yoo I After Stalin died, Uncle Yoo paid a surprise visit to his nephew’s air base in Manchuria. He was now Major Yoo, leader of a supply ...
( Category: Asia November 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis

Want to know why I hate 5x5? Because every time I've tried it, and I've tried many different permutations, my bench goes down. Not just down like when your zipper's ...
( Category: Africa November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Le Ly Hayslip [Hayslip, Le Ly]

Like rice seedlings, planted row by row, my resources slowly grew. Alan and Victor split Dennis’s insurance benefit, which gave them each a nest egg for education and emergencies. The ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Shelley Emling [Emling, Shelley]

Since Marie’s last visit to America, Meloney had been one busy lady. In 1926, The Delineator magazine had merged with another Butterick Publishing Company publication, The Designer, with Meloney continuing ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 29,2017 )