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Julius Caesar (Yesterday's Classics) by Abbott Jacob
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CHAPTER VII The Battle of Pharsalia THE gathering of the armies of Cæsar and Pompey on the opposite shores of the Adriatic Sea was one of the grandest preparations for ...
( Category: Rome June 7,2017 )
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
epub | | 2010-06-14 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

THE TWENTY–FIFTH. During the morning everything at and in the neighbourhood of the Mairie of the Eighth Arrondissement was relatively calm, and the steps to maintain order taken the previous ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 7,2017 )
The Loyal Son by Daniel Mark Epstein
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Daniel Mark Epstein

This letter must have put the fear of God in Joseph Galloway and his friend the governor of New Jersey, arriving when it did, only days before the carnage at ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 4,2017 )
Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Maureen Orth [Orth, Maureen]

ON Saturday afternoon, May 3, 1997, a few hours after David Madson’s body had been discovered at East Rush Lake in Minnesota, Stephen and Barbara Byer were pulling out of ...
( Category: United States June 4,2017 )
Pioneer Ranch Life in Orange by Mary Teegarden Clark
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Mary Teegarden Clark

The children’s playhouse in La Porte, Indiana, 1880. Dr. Teegarden is seen standing and holding the baby. The other unidentified persons are members of the Clark and Bradley families. There ...
( Category: Photography & Video June 4,2017 )
Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Volker Ullrich [Ullrich, Volker]

17 Dictatorship by Division, Architecture of Intimidation “What does it feel like, Herr Reichskanzler, being a Reichskanzler?” Sefton Delmer asked Hitler in February 1933, shortly after he was named German ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 3,2017 )
Boudicca: The Warrior Queen by M. J. Trow & Taliesin Trow
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:M. J. Trow & Taliesin Trow [Trow, M. J.]

Quintus Veranius had only conducted minor raids against the Silures when death terminated his operations. His life had been famous for its austerity. But his testamentary last words were glaringly ...
( Category: Historical June 1,2017 )
The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders by Dr. Roland A. Y. Holou
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Dr. Roland A. Y. Holou [Holou, Roland A. Y.]

The contributions of Esther Stanford-Xosei have also been recognized by Professor Adjoa Aiyetoro in the chapter “Black Women and Reparations Movements” of the book “Black Women and International Law” edited ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 31,2017 )
Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Nora Roberts

CHAPTER SIXTEEN They never opened the wine or cracked a beer. By the time exhaustion trumped lust, Bodine fell asleep sprawled on top of him with his hand still tangled ...
( Category: Suspense May 31,2017 )
Einstein in Berlin by Thomas Levenson
epub |eng | 2017-05-22 | Author:Thomas Levenson

Chapter Sixteen “THAT BUSINESS ABOUT CAUSALITY” At about 10:40 a.m. on June 24, 1922, Walther Rathenau left his house in the countrified suburbs of Berlin. He settled into the backseat ...
( Category: United States May 27,2017 )
The Unsettlers by Mark Sundeen
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Mark Sundeen

Nine The story of Detroit is not complete without the story of the suburbs. Indeed, the origins of the back-to-the-land movement aren’t so different from those of the suburbs. With ...
( Category: United States May 26,2017 )
Agent 110 by Scott Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Scott Miller

CHAPTER 29 Light Had Gone Out The unsupervised isolation Dulles had so enjoyed came to an abrupt end with the American invasion of the South of France in August 1944. ...
( Category: Political May 25,2017 )
From Silk to Silicon by Jeffrey E. Garten
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Jeffrey E. Garten

“A Battle Between Two Ways of Life” Margaret entered Oxford University in October 1944, focusing her studies on chemistry. She joined both the Methodist Study Group and the Oxford University ...
( Category: Globalization May 22,2017 )
Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchman
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

* * * *1 The military habit of giving code names to people and projects partly accounts for the prevalence if not the nature of the nicknames Stilwell used. *2 ...
( Category: Asia May 22,2017 )
The Edge of the Abyss (Sequel to The Abyss Surrounds Us)
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Emily Skrutskie [Skrutskie, Emily]

16 In the late afternoon, the all-call snaps on. I don’t even need to hear Santa Elena’s words to know what’s happening—the ring of the speakers warming up is enough ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 21,2017 )

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