Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Mark Lee Gardner [Gardner, Mark Lee]

WITHIN A WEEK OF killing the Kid, Garrett threatened to resign as sheriff of Lincoln County. The job did not pay well, he explained at the time, and he did ...
( Category: Law Enforcement May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Alan Axelrod [Axelrod, Alan]

Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834) Eager to win glory as a soldier in a noble cause, Lafayette left his native France and arrived in Philadelphia in July 1777 to fight for ...
( Category: Reference May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:John Milton Cooper [Cooper, John Milton]

On November 7, when the returns came in, Wilson thought he might have to implement the plan. On election day, he and Edith drove to Princeton, where he voted once ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Edmund Morris [Morris, Edmund]

On 25 October 1892, two days before Roosevelt’s thirty-fourth birthday, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died, adding a final touch of doom to the moribund Republican campaign. The little general had not ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Joshua Kendall [Kendall, Joshua]

The twelfth child of William and Mary Greenleaf, James Greenleaf (1765-1843) was a year older than Webster’s wife, Rebecca. Without the financial assistance of the well-heeled “brother James,” Webster could ...
( Category: Authors May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:James McGrath Morris [Morris, James McGrath]

Angry about his paper’s conduct, complaining about all his ailments, and dispirited, Pulitzer found no solace in Paris. He returned to Wiesbaden to see Dr. Hermann Pagenstecher, one of the ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Adrienne Mayor [Mayor, Adrienne]

FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Mithradates also celebrated his victory over Murena with a solemn ritual, a mountaintop fire ceremony to thank Zeus and Mithra. Appian described this ceremony, which he ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

As he wrote the letter, Everett was sitting by his campfire beside the Escalante River, cooking dinner with two of his youthful new friends. Turning his thoughts to his burros, ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:John Paul Rathbone [Rathbone, John Paul]

Within a decade, Lobo’s mighty works would also disappear. Fifty years after that, Castro’s socialist revolution would seem like an Ozymandian dream too. Nine IMPERIAL AFFAIRS Fortune is a woman ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-09-01 | Author:Kitty Kelley [Kelley, Kitty]

FOURTEEN I’m fed up to the teeth with your bloody security,” exploded the Duke of Edinburgh. “Let’s get going.” “I’m sorry, sir,” said the U.S. Secret Service agent, “but there’s ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ellen Fitzpatrick [Fitzpatrick, Ellen]

Yours sincerely, Dora W. Wildesen * * * John F. Kennedy was the first American President born in the twentieth century. At forty-three years of age, he was also the ...
( Category: Letters May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Doris L. Rich [Rich, Doris L.]

At the next stop in Portland, a reporter overheard a woman who saw Amelia at the train station say, “Why—she’s quite a beautiful person!” and another newsman wrote that her ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rosamund Bartlett [Bartlett, Rosamund]

After many years of seeking the truth, he has finally reached the jetty. He has constructed this jetty of course in his own way, but the One leading him is ...
( Category: Authors May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Thomas Buergenthal & Elie Wiesel [Buergenthal, Thomas & Wiesel, Elie]

CHAPTER 7 Into the Polish Army THE BIG SACHSENHAUSEN GATE WAS OPEN. Marek and I walked through it, under the administration building with its tower and the now-empty machine-gun nest ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-12 | Author:Cherie Blair [BLAIR, CHERIE]

I thought it might be a bit difficult for my mum and dad to be there together, but in the end it was fine. One thing my mum had always ...
( Category: Historical May 26,2014 )