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The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David V. Herlihy [Herlihy, David V.]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling October 1,2020 )
Live Free Or Die by Sean Hannity
epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Sean Hannity

FAKE NEWS VS. FOX NEWS If you listen to my radio show and watch my TV program, then you know about the Fake News Media’s obsession with Fox News—and their ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher by Max Allan Collins
epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:Max Allan Collins

AFTER TWO YEARS in the federal service, Ness’s interest began to wane. The work still offered challenges and affirmation—Ness’s scrapbook bulged with newspaper clippings and letters of praise and thanks, ...
( Category: Law Enforcement August 6,2020 )
Famous Samurai: Yagyu Munenori by William de Lange
epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:William de Lange [Lange, William de]

The scene of the Oyama war conference On September 6 Ieyasu called to his side a number of his closest retainers, among them Yagyū Munenori. This, he told them, was ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
The Enigma of Isaac Babel by Freidin Gregory
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Freidin, Gregory.

. . . everything resumed movement: the coachmen loosened the reins, lowered their long whips; the horses, animated, shook their harness chains, tossed foam around them, and the hindquarters and ...
( Category: Russian August 6,2020 )
Elaine's by Amy Phillips Penn
epub |eng | 2015-05-10 | Author:Amy Phillips Penn

The Good Penny Curt Block Curt Block couldn’t resist contacting me with this role-reversal story. His date, after trying to make nice to Elaine with dismissive responses, finally told Elaine ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. Kaplan
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

The first morning we had slept late and treated ourselves to cappuccinos and pastries in a bar before taking a short bus ride to the archaeological museum, located halfway between ...
( Category: Greece August 6,2020 )
Looking for Miss America by Margot Mifflin
epub |eng | 2020-05-21 | Author:Margot Mifflin

EVEN AS ITS STAR WAS dimming in the 1970s, the pageant was progressing, quietly, in a few ways. During her 1972 reign, Laurel Lea Schaefer became a spokesperson for families ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
Renegade by Richard Wolffe
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Richard Wolffe [Wolffe, Richard]

Trinity was the place where Barack married Michelle and they baptized their daughters. But its role in Obama’s religious and political life was vague: a presence, but not a pivotal ...
( Category: Elections August 6,2020 )
Into the Blue by Andrea Curtis
epub |eng | 2003-08-14 | Author:Andrea Curtis [Curtis, Andrea]

Sunday, November 25, 1906, 6 a.m., the Crawford house Lillie stokes the kitchen stove and sits down at the table. The children are still asleep and the streets outside are ...
( Category: Canadian August 6,2020 )
If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews: 100-Year Old Lena Goldstein's Miracle Story (Jewish Holocaust World War 11 Biography) (Faces of Eve) by Barbara Miller
epub |eng | 2019-01-06 | Author:Barbara Miller [Miller, Barbara]

21. Evian Conference Delegates 1938, Yad Vashem Archives 4613-425 22. Susanna Kokkonen and Shaya Ben Yehuda, left, receiving plaque of apology re Australia’s position at Evian from Norman and Barbara ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
Desk 88 by Sherrod Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Sherrod Brown

* * * WEALTHY BUSINESS INTERESTS dominated southern politics more than in any region of the country. In 1895 a Massachusetts company opened a factory in Alabama to escape strikes ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
Apollo 11 by David Whitehouse
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:David Whitehouse [David Whitehouse]

As if the conditions weren’t bad enough for Cernan, they were having problems with the radio. Stafford continues: I think we went south of Hawaii, then, before we hit the ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
Nasser by Saïd K. Aburish
epub |eng | | Author:Saïd K. Aburish

7 Search for an Honorable Exit Gamal Abdel Nasser, astute, instinctive, and with a rare natural ability to sense and judge his surroundings, was probably the only one among the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 6,2020 )
Infamous Scribblers by Eric Burns
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Eric Burns

These papers remind us, if we need the reminding, that the Founding Fathers were not, as we sometimes like to think, a single entity, a group of men bound together ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies August 6,2020 )

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