Historical
epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Mark Perry

MARK TWAIN MISSED all of this. Through most of November and December and all of January, he was on a reading tour with George Washington Cable—marketed by the two of ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Frances Burney

( Category: World Literature September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Witold Rybczynski

* * * 1. Godkin wrote Olmsted describing the trial—“there is a tremendous libel suit going on here between Weed (Thurlow) & Opdyke, from which it plainly appears that one ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Er Tai Gao

TWENTY-TWO Initiation When the National Research Institute for Dunhuang Art was established in 1944, the first director was the famous painter Chang Shuhong. In 1950, the second year of the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Massie, Robert K. [Massie, Robert K.]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Thomas, Evan

CHAPTER 17 Department of Dirty Tricks John Dean drove a Porsche, liked cocktails and attractive women—he once used the White House switchboard to track down a woman who had refused ...
( Category: Historical September 21,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Gene Smith [Smith, Gene]

In the morning, by prearrangement, they met again. Surrounded by Yankee officers they sat their horses, Traveller and Cincinnati, just outside the village. Grant had been halted by Southern pickets ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

A classical pianist and harpsichordist, Rosalyn Tureck was Bill Buckley’s favorite performer—in any artistic medium, any genre. That was because she had been, as he put it in her eulogy, ...
( Category: Historical September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:John S. McHugh [John S. McHugh]

Chapter Six Nemesis: The Fall of Cleander (190 AD) The various measures and precautions made by Cleander failed to alleviate the shortage of grain. Unrest in Africa had already effected ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Joe Kimball [Kimball, Joe]

Soon after his arrest, Roger Caldwell hired St. Paul attorney Doug Thomson. The gray-haired lawyer was considered one of the top defense attorneys in the region. He'd been involved in ...
( Category: True Crime September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margery Kempe

Chapter 55 When she had crossed the River Humber, she was immediately arrested as a Lollard and led towards prison. There happened to be a person there who had seen ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph W. McGehee

9. HEADQUARTERS: GHOSTS IN THE HALLS WHEN I arrived back at Headquarters from Thailand in late 1967 to begin processing for my new assignment as branch chief on Taiwan, I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: World September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip F. Napoli

10 BECOMING VETERANS: EDELMAN, GERMAN, AND PAS In May 2005, at a small ceremony on a cold, blustery day, the former New York City mayor Edward I. Koch recalled the ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Roger Hutchinson

* Calum was referring here to James Loch and Patrick Sellar, the Scottish commissioner and factor respectively of Lord Stafford’s immense Sutherlandshire estate in the 1810s. Loch and Sellar enforced ...
( Category: Historical September 20,2017 )