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Our Crime Was Being Jewish by Anthony S. Pitch
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Anthony S. Pitch

I will never go to hell because I’m living it already. —Lilly Appelbaum Malnik in an interview with Sandra Bradley for the USHMM film Testimony, RG-50.042*0020 Every ten days in ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2016 )
Ibn Saud by Barbara Bray
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Barbara Bray

CHAPTER 9 ‘Calif Out’ ‘Calif Out’ read the headline above the article in Time Magazine. On March 3rd 1924 Ataturk, the new charismatic nationalist leader of Turkey, and the Turkish ...
( Category: Royalty April 16,2016 )
Heir to the Empire City by Edward P. Kohn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward P. Kohn [Kohn, Edward P.]

DARK SHADOWS HAD ALWAYS cast themselves across Roosevelt’s life. In his youth he had been small and sickly. By age twenty-five, Roosevelt had grieved the loss of the three people ...
( Category: State & Local April 14,2016 )
Circling the Square by Wendell Steavenson
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:Wendell Steavenson

EVERY FRIDAY EVERY FRIDAY PEOPLE RETURNED TO TAHRIR. THE FRIDAY OF DEMAND, the Friday of the Popular Committees, the Friday of Cleansing, the Friday of the Martyrs. Hassan and I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 14,2016 )
The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Stefan Waydenfeld

A model of the log raft we built to leave Kvasha The Uftyuga River from Kvasha to Krasnoborsk * In fact, the author was born in a clinic in the ...
( Category: Russia April 14,2016 )
Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kate Hubbard [Hubbard, Kate]

CHAPTER 15 Henry Ponsonby: Private Secretary Whether due to the Brown effect or simply the passage of time, by the late 1860s the worst of the Queen’s grief had passed. ...
( Category: Great Britain April 14,2016 )
Portraits of American Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Steven M. Cahn

And today, more than fifty years after that meeting, it is still the image that comes to mind when I think of what democracy at its best really means. In ...
( Category: Modern April 14,2016 )
The Naturalist by Darrin Lunde
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
Tide Players by Jianying Zha
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Jianying Zha

6. After our dinner, Zhang Weiying e-mailed me a number of his articles on university reform. Unlike the author of the cool, technical, official Beida documents, Zhang in these articles ...
( Category: China April 13,2016 )
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair by Jonathan Beckman
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Jonathan Beckman [Beckman, Jonathan]

18 Questions, Questions 11 January 1786 A FREEZING ROOM in the Bastille. On one side of the table, Titon, still snivelling and tetchy from the cold that had delayed the ...
( Category: France April 13,2016 )
Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner
epub |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Christopher Turner

“What did you get out of it?” the anarchist Paul Mattick asked when Goodman told him he’d just had a session in an accumulator. “Nothing, nothing,” said Goodman, as if ...
( Category: United States April 10,2016 )
The Southerner's Handbook by Editors of Garden & Gun
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Editors of Garden & Gun

GRAB A FROG A FROG LEG CAN have as much meat as a drumstick off your average chicken, and cooked right, whether deep-fried or sautéed, it’s just as good eating ...
( Category: Southern April 9,2016 )
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII I rejoined the First Battalion in March, finding it in the line again, on the Somme. It was the primrose season. We went in and out of the Fricourt ...
( Category: Great Britain April 9,2016 )
Children of God Storybook Bible by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
epub |eng | | Author:Archbishop Desmond Tutu [Desmond Tutu ]

Dear God, help me to trust you when I am tempted. Chapter 31 Jesus Turns Water into Wine God brings joy John 2 Jesus and his disciples went to a ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2016 )
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Otto Dov Kulka [Dov Kulka, Otto]

22. 23. 24. The immutable law of the Great Death, the immutable law which recurs in that dream in infinite permutations, which in one place I called ‘the eternal death ...
( Category: Holocaust April 8,2016 )

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