Historical
epub |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:Foote, Shelby [Foote, Shelby]
Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category:
American Civil War
December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Allan Bloom
BOOK IX “Well,” I said, “the tyrannic man himself remains to be considered—how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man ...
( Category:
Democracy
December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort
To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category:
World War II
December 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Harding
Shamis with the kids, 1991. COURTESY OF THE NUR FAMILY For years, Abdullahi was a difficult, hyperactive child. At home, after school, he would crouch behind the television set mixing ...
( Category:
Africa
December 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Alfons Heck
Frau Friedhoff Girls of the Hitlerjugend and Reichsarbeitsdienst who served as cooks on the Westwall in the fall of 1944 Field kitchens were set up in the cobblestone yard of ...
( Category:
Historical
December 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Behrens, Roy R. [Behrens, Roy R.]
Lithographic plate from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by Owen Jones, an indispensable sourcebook for architects. Left half of a panoramic photograph of downtown Mason City in 1907. Photograph by ...
( Category:
State & Local
December 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-05 | Author:Adams, Henry; Nadel, Ira;
CHAPTER XX FAILURE (1871) FAR back in childhood, among its earliest memories, Henry Adams could recall his first visit to Harvard College. He must have been nine years old when ...
( Category:
United States
December 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock
Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category:
European
December 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson
Notes 1 Halphen, op. cit., p.98 2 N. Machiavelli, The Prince (trs. W. K. Marriott), 1908, p.21 3 Allott, op. cit., p.98 4 Einhard and Notker, p.146 5 cf. Becher, ...
( Category:
Rome
December 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Cait Murphy
1975 PRE’S ROCK In his too-brief career, Steve Prefontaine did the impossible: he made distance running cool to Americans. At the time of his death in 1975, the James Dean ...
( Category:
United States
December 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez [Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn]
Carmen Miranda wearing Yvonne Wood’s exquisite creation for her final number of Greenwich Village (1944). Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library In Carmen Miranda’s last film for Twentieth Century-Fox, If ...
( Category:
Brazil
December 3,2016 )
epub |ara, eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Steven Gaines
Five Mr. Halliday The third floor of Payne Whitney reminded me of the Beauregard, the small residential hotel in Bournemouth, England, in the movie Separate Tables. The hotel is a ...
( Category:
United States
December 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Randall B. Woods
IN THE LATE FALL OF 1965, THE “FABULOUS EIGHTY-NINTH,” AS THE press labeled the sitting session of Congress, adjourned. Its record of achievement was unparalleled: Medicare; Medicaid; voting rights; federal ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
December 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reiner Stach
It was his first publication, at the age of twenty-four, and Kafka was surely heartened. Might it not be possible after all to patch together “Description of a Struggle” into ...
( Category:
Europe
November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Allen M. Hornblum
“Scolnick was good at con games,” says Kripplebauer, “but when it came to real criminal shit he was nothing. Rosenberg and Paul figured that bank deal out; they deserve as ...
( Category:
State & Local
November 17,2016 )
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