Historical
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Nancy Isenberg

HAD “TURNED HIMSELF WHOLLY TOWARD MEXICO” Burr’s fascination with the West began long before his duel with Hamilton. He had probably thought about the tremendous possibilities of this territory as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-11-30 | Author:James B. Stockdale

ESSAYS IN PUBLIC POLICY Hong Kong under Chinese Rule: The First Year David Newman and Alvin Rabushka, 1998 Affirmative Action in Higher Education: A Dilemma of Conflicting Principles John H. ...
( Category: Military October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

Summer Fever It was the sort of weather for lying at home under a warm blanket drinking tea. Lara made some thyme-leaf tea and brought it to Bano. ‘Are you ...
( Category: Europe October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Herbert P. Bix [Bix, Herbert P.]

December 11, 1942: Today the emperor travels to Ise Shrine to worship in person [rather than by proxy]…. December 12:…Departed Kyoto Palace at 6:45 A.M…. arrived at Yamada Station at ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-13 | Author:Michael Korda

Boulogne is a cramped and narrow port, overstuffed with history. Its substantial walls were built in medieval times to protect it from the English, and it contains the tallest column ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Thurston Clarke [Clarke, Thurston]

Monday, October 14–Friday, October 18 CAMP DAVID AND WASHINGTON On Monday, Salinger announced that the president had decided to stay at Camp David with his children because it was a ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:O'Reilly, Bill [O'Reilly, Bill]

11 MAY 3, 1963 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 1:00 P.M. “We’re going to walk, walk, walk. Freedom … Freedom … Freedom,” the protesters chant as they march out through the great oak ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Mary Gordon

Her Violence: “A Bloodthirsty Wench”? Joan’s voices led her not into a convent or to a hermit’s cave but into battle. Her métier was violence. Yet her attitude toward the ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1973-10-13 | Author:Edward Klein [Klein, Edward]

ESIAH’S DANCE A fine drizzle began to fall on the morning of the wedding, October 20, 1968. In Greece, a rainy wedding day was considered an omen of good luck. ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:François-René de Chateaubriand [Chateaubriand, François-René de]

( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-24 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

[363] Cato was left with fifteen cohorts in Dyrrachium. See the Life of Cato, c. 55; Dion Cassius (12. c. 10). [364] Or Tusculanum, as Plutarch calls it, now Frascati, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-22 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

"Dreadful is the lion's lair Though he is no longer there." As he greatly dreaded wakeful nights, he gave himself up to drinking and intoxication at unseasonable hours and to ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-10-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

to the great delight of all the company; but when the verses of the dialogue followed, What happy hand the glorious victim slew? I claim that honor to my courage ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21, 1865. MAJOR-GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Mill Div. of the Mississippi. GENERAL:—Your letters brought by General Barnard were received ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]

HEADQUARTERS, FORT DONELSON, February 16, 1862. SIR:—In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2017 )