Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-08 | Author:Thunderstruck [Thunderstruck]

The journal further charged that if no one knew much about the current state of Marconi’s technology, it was Marconi’s own fault. “If Mr. Marconi would but describe his methods ...
( Category: True Crime October 8,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

Chapter Six In Waiting IN RETREAT AT Monticello from the earliest days of 1794, Jefferson may possibly have intended to keep to his retirement. In the fall of that year, ...
( Category: Americas October 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:McCubbin, Lisa;Hill, Clint [McCubbin, Lisa;Hill, Clint]

Clint Hill in working attire, Ravello, Italy I had seen how these paparazzi operated, however, and I was not convinced they would follow the “rules.” The morning after our arrival, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Con Coughlin

Officially the United States and Britain maintained a policy of neutrality toward the combatants, but there were clear indications that both London and Washington were more favorably inclined toward Baghdad ...
( Category: Historical October 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Carmen Aguirre

BOLIVIA WAS IN a state of joy when we returned from Brazil. General Vildoso had announced at last that Hernán Siles Zuazo would take over as president in October. The ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]

Here Lady Bird relaxes in a field of bluebonnets, reminding us she was the First Lady who revitalized America’s love of natural beauty. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library) Lady Bird personally ...
( Category: World October 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Richard Lloyd Parry

15. GEORGE O’HARA Instead of Azabu Police Station, where they would have interrogated the suspect in a more routine case, Superintendent Udo’s detectives took Joji Obara to the fortresslike headquarters ...
( Category: True Crime October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:George Right

HOUSE "Monsieur, Count de Montreux wants to see you." Jacques Dubois fastidiously frowned. "Tell him that I can't receive him." But the visitor, having resolutely moved the servant out of ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Frank Partnoy

That was it. These disclosures contained more questions than answers, and they made Durant more nervous than Berning had been. In recent months, Ivar had been showering Durant with kindness. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-15 | Author:Frank McCourt [McCourt, Frank]

Happy Christmas to yourself, missus, and a Happy New Year, too. Mind yourself on that ladder, young fella. Help your mother. Thank you very much, sir. We wait again on ...
( Category: Memoirs October 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:Kate Summerscale

Although people had kept records of their domestic and spiritual lives for hundreds of years, the practice spread dramatically in the early-nineteenth century. Before then, most journals had been household ...
( Category: Europe October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Stephen Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen]

The following morning Hancock ordered Custer to pursue the fleeing Indians. Delaware scouts found the trail and led the way. The trail led north, but because the Indians had no ...
( Category: Americas October 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-01 | Author:Farquhar, Michael [Farquhar, Michael]

2 Aaron Burr: “ Embryo - Caesar” Under the American system of justice, in which a man is deemed innocent until proven guilty, Aaron Burr was no traitor. A jury ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Reza Kahlili [KAHLILI, REZA]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:David Rockefeller [Rockefeller, David]

WITNESS TO THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Mao instigated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s in a brutal bid to solidify his own grip on power. While he succeeded in ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 7,2017 )