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The Colonel and Little Missie by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2005-11-18 | Author:Larry McMurtry

5 ONE aspect of late-nineteenth-century performance that has long since gone the way of the passenger pigeon was the endurance shoot, in which contestants fired thousands of bullets or pellets ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 19,2014 )
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER 16 “THE GREATEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN” The President was in high spirits in the early days of 1943. At midnight, January 9, he was set to begin ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 19,2014 )
Richard & John: Kings at War by McLynn Frank
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:McLynn, Frank [McLynn, Frank]

13 IT WAS SOME TIME before the backlash from the Lusignans manifested itself, so that John must sometimes have wondered if, against all the odds, he had got away with ...
( Category: Great Britain November 18,2014 )
Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes
epub |eng | 2003-08-18 | Author:Jill Jonnes

Having emerged from the shadows, Thomas Edison did not retreat again. He now proceeded to use the full force of his monumental fame and prestige to persuade the public and ...
( Category: Electricity November 18,2014 )
Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 6 by Anaïs Nin
epub |eng | | Author:Anaïs Nin

One day in autumn, I remember walking with Daisy Aldan at our second meeting, after corresponding. I remember it was a wistful walk, because we were both overwhelmed with the ...
( Category: Women November 18,2014 )
The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800 by William Monter
epub |eng | | Author:William Monter

* * * Source: N. M. McQ. Holmes, Scottish Coins in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh: Part I, 1526–1603 (Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, #58: Oxford University ...
( Category: Europe November 17,2014 )
41 A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:George W. Bush

THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN LEE ATWATER SUGGESTED that I move to Washington to help in Dad’s campaign, I was intrigued. The timing seemed right. I had just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 15,2014 )
41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:George W. Bush

THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN LEE ATWATER SUGGESTED that I move to Washington to help in Dad’s campaign, I was intrigued. The timing seemed right. I had just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 15,2014 )
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Flude Kevin
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flude, Kevin [Flude, Kevin]

EDWARD VI Reigned 1547–1553 Edward was born in 1537 at Hampton Court. He was a precocious and rather priggish child – serious, scholarly and dedicated to the Protestant religion. He ...
( Category: Great Britain November 14,2014 )
Ambition and Desire by Kate Williams
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

AS WELL AS bringing in civil reform and reminding everyone of his great military victories, Napoleon announced the return of the Catholic Church, abolished in the Revolution, but this time ...
( Category: France November 14,2014 )
Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

24 The Moment of Truth Throughout the autumn of 1934 Churchill had been preparing a major Parliamentary appeal for accelerated Air Force expansion. On November 25, three days before the ...
( Category: Great Britain November 14,2014 )
Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy

There was still heavy fighting, and the Romans' line was ragged as the legionaries formed up with the first officer or standard-bearer they met, just as they had done when ...
( Category: Rome November 14,2014 )
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Blaine Harden [Harden, Blaine]

It is still the only song Shin knows. ____ In November, not long after Park was assigned to the textile factory, four Bowiwon guards paid a surprise visit to the ...
( Category: North November 13,2014 )
Loss of Eden by Joyce Milton
epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Joyce Milton [Milton, Joyce]

In retrospect, it is unfortunate that the Lindberghs were unable to assuage their grief by making some positive social contribution. In contrast to Harry Guggenheim, who had his crime-fighting committee, ...
( Category: United States November 13,2014 )
Tip and the Gipper by Chris Matthews
mobi |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

Momentarily stunned, staff members of the Senate Republican Conference who had worked hard to arrange the event, sprang to the defense of their pie, leaping into the apples and attempting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 13,2014 )

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