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Loss of the Ss Titanic, The by Lawrence Beesley
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Lawrence Beesley [Beesley, Lawrence]

For some time before she sank, the Titanic had a considerable list to port, so much so that one boat at any rate swung so far away from the side ...
( Category: Transportation October 12,2017 )
Hitler's Commanders by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. [Mitcham, Samuel]

Adolf Hitler in his Brownshirts uniform. Source: Nazi Party photo album from 1933, loaned to the author by former Captain Waldo Dalstead Colonel General Alfred Jodl, the chief of operations ...
( Category: World October 12,2017 )
Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance by JANET GLEESON
epub |eng | 2000-11-11 | Author:JANET GLEESON

The Crown of Poland, venal twice an age, To just three millions stinted modest Gage. But in certain Parisian salons the flourishing fortunes of countless overseas investors met with a ...
( Category: Economics October 12,2017 )
Bust Hell Wide Open by Samuel W. Mitcham
epub |eng | 2016-09-08 | Author:Samuel W. Mitcham

A fanciful engraving of the Fort Pillow Massacre, as it appeared in Northern newspapers. It seems clear, however, that several blacks and Confederate deserters were shot as they tried to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 12,2017 )
The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time by Michael Shapiro
epub |eng | 2000-10-02 | Author:Michael Shapiro [Shapiro, Michael]

53 Roman victory coin: “Judea Captive.” Johanan ben Zakkai (ca. 80 C.E.) Legend has it that during the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 C.E. he was smuggled ...
( Category: Judaism October 12,2017 )
Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:Roberta Edwards

The biggest pyramid belonged to a pharaoh named Cheops. It took approximately one hundred thousand workers twenty years to complete. The body of Cheops was placed deep inside, in a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 12,2017 )
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

When the Birdseyes arrived in Gloucester, the city had just celebrated its three hundredth birthday. Founded in 1623 as an English fishing station, it remained, and still is today, one ...
( Category: Engineering October 12,2017 )
King of the Godfathers by Anthony M. DeStefano
epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Anthony M. DeStefano [DeStefano, Anthony M.]

CHAPTER 16 By the Numbers “What do you think is going on?” asked FBI Director Louis Freeh. Though he was based in Washington, D.C., Freeh kept abreast of crime news ...
( Category: Historical October 12,2017 )
Revolutionary characters: what made the founders different by Gordon S. Wood
epub |eng | 2006-05-23 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Gordon, Wood,]

57805-01 2/23/06 11:08 AM Page 168 168 re vol u t i on a r y c h a rac t e r s Suddenly in 1776, with the United ...
( Category: Americas October 11,2017 )
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
epub |eng | 2006-05-31 | Author:Justin Kaplan [Kaplan, Justin]

SIX After the Ball Was Over i. DURING THE WINTER OF 1896–1897 the United States was mired in a period of economic distress and widespread unemployment that had begun with ...
( Category: Americas October 11,2017 )
Boss Tweed by Kenneth D. Ackerman
epub |eng | 2005-12-21 | Author:Kenneth D. Ackerman [Ackerman, Kenneth D.]

( Category: Historical October 11,2017 )
Hannibal's Oath by John Prevas
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:John Prevas [Prevas, John]

CHAPTER VI Unending War WHEN HANNIBAL LEFT Spain for Italy, he placed his younger brother Hasdrubal in command of the Carthaginian-controlled portion of the country. Hasdrubal was tasked with holding ...
( Category: Asia October 11,2017 )
To Catch a King by Charles Spencer
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Charles Spencer [Spencer, Charles]

* The priest would keep the rag as a royal relic, and eventually sent it to a relative, a Mr Brithwayte, who venerated it. PART THREE A LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN ...
( Category: Europe October 11,2017 )
The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Kiernan

14 Homespun and a Great War “Makes Children and Adults as Fat as Pigs.” So proclaimed the small bottle’s label and its ubiquitous advertisements. The cartoon image accompanying the disturbingly ...
( Category: Architecture October 11,2017 )
Grant by Ron Chernow
epub, azw3, pdf, mobi |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Ron Chernow

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX — Swing Around the Circle WHEN THE NEW CONGRESS met in December 1865, it grew crystal-clear to Radical Republicans that Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction policies were slanted toward the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 10,2017 )

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