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Rise to Greatness by David Von Drehle
epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:David Von Drehle [Drehle, David Von]

9 AUGUST Frequently that summer, a man arrived at the White House whose role in the Civil War was little known at the time and has long since been nearly ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography by Charles Moore
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Charles Moore [Moore, Charles]

Hunt recommended asking the Chancellor to say what the consequences of higher public spending would be for GDP and for interest rates. His proposed way of ‘steering’ the discussion was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Cadwallader Colden by Seymour I. Schwartz
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Seymour I. Schwartz

Doctor Garden writes Doctor Whytt, that, in the summer 1754, he met, about a mile from the town of New York in New England, with a plant, which, at first, ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 25,2014 )
Kearny's March by Winston Groom
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-11-07 | Author:Winston Groom

* Military officers in those times were permitted to bring a servant along with them. Since Emory was from a slaveholding family in Maryland, it is highly probable that his ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Humboldt by Emily Brady
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Emily Brady

People continued growing their profitable weed in Humboldt, of course, and contrary to the Bureau of Land Management director’s promise, the army and National Guard did not return. Gradually, though, ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Samuel Bawlf

* * * Denied an audience with the Queen, Mendoza stirred up the Spanish merchants in Tondon to agitate for restoration of Drake’s plunder to its rightful owners, and told ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
End of Days by James L. Swanson
epub |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:James L. Swanson

OUTSIDE ON the street, a pasty-complexioned, unattractive man wearing a dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, dark hat, and dark shoes approached the mouth of the driveway and the armored ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Tsar's Doctor by Mary McGrigor
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary McGrigor

While there, because it was a common topic, even if he did not buy a newssheet, he must have heard of the tsar’s visit to London, widely reported as it ...
( Category: Medical March 25,2014 )
Papa Hemingway by A. E. Hotchner
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:A. E. Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

Chapter Nine Key West ♦ 1955 On the morning of July 3rd I flew to Miami, where I caught the small afternoon plane to Key West and took a taxi ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Lincoln's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly
epub |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

One of John Wilkes Booth’s spurs. Chapter 36 FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1865 Washington, D. C. 10:20 P. M. WORD IS ALREADY SPREADING through Washington that the president has been shot. ...
( Category: Biographies March 25,2014 )
Room Upstairs by Monica Dickens
epub |eng | 1966-03-24 | Author:Monica Dickens

Ten The bad weather came early that year. It had been possible in some years, Laurie said, to sit outside in the midday sun at Christmas. But already, by November, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

LETTER TO HANNAH ARMSTRONG Hannah Armstrong was the wife of Jack Armstrong, leader of the Clary’s Grove boys at New Salem, the man with whom Lincoln had had a famous ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
mobi |eng | 2008-07-12 | Author:Fatima Mernissi

But the most successful pioneering champion of women's rights, as far as the terrace audience was concerned, was Huda Sha`raoui, an aristocratic Egyptian beauty, born in 1879, who bewitched Egypt's ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
Mask by Kelly C.C
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Kelly, C.C. [Kelly, C.C.]

****** The Series 1 Gamma lay on the table facing the wall analyzing the equipment tower outputs, the conversation in the room now ended. A sub-routine engaged and it began ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )

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