Historical
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Jerry Apps

Pond Magic While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are lucky to have two ponds at Roshara, one entirely ...
( Category: United States August 2,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Authors August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Coan [Coan, Peter]

Heidi Reichmann BORN JUNE 9, 1907 EMIGRATED 1939, AGE 31 PASSAGE ON THE FRANCONIA The older sister to three brothers, she was the daughter of a successful cattle dealer. She ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Ron Roberson

“Pacemaker Special” No.2 sits near completion at our house on South First Street in Trenton. The monster 406 Olds engine ran six Stromberg carburetors on Dad’s homemade log-type manifold. The ...
( Category: Midwest August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-14 | Author:Mike Filey

Harry (Henry) Jackman was born in Toronto on November 5, 1900. He attended the University of Toronto, Harvard University, and Osgoode Hall Law School. Jackman spent his working career in ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Eric Burns [Burns, Eric]

22 NINETEEN-ELEVEN, THE YEAR OF the treaty, was also the year when the Roosevelts celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Some of the family gathered for the occasion on December 2, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Charles C. Johnson

Governor Walsh signed the bill on May 21. Silent Cal never explained the reason he voted for it, but its effect was clear. By passing legislation to censor Birth of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson Conrad Black [Conrad Black, Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson]

CHAPTER 8 Race to the Wire At Wilmington, North Carolina, on August 9, Trump accused Hillary Clinton of seeking to repeal Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms through her gun ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-27 | Author:Grant, Ulysses S. [Grant, Ulysses S.]

CHAPTER 44 BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA—A GALLANT CHARGE—COMPLETE ROUT OF THE ENEMY—PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES—GENERAL BRAGG—REMARKS ON CHATTANOOGA At twelve o’clock at night, when all was quiet, I began to give ...
( Category: American Civil War August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-12 | Author:Jack Bray

V CONFRONTATION • 8 • Ambush at Berchtesgaden “Perhaps you will wake up one morning in Vienna to find us there—just like a spring storm.” —Adolf Hitler As dawn broke ...
( Category: World War II August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Ada Gobetti & Jomarie Alano

I let him leave, and then, when I heard that his car had left, I left too. I went to Teta’s, and notified Paolo and Ettore also, telling them to ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Diane Ackerman

CHAPTER 20 THE SNOWY AUTUMN OF 1942 HIT THE ZOO WITH A SPECIAL fury, as winds lashed wooden buildings until they moaned and whisked snowbanks into sparkling souffles. Bombing early ...
( Category: Holocaust August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-04-30 | Author:Thomas Nickerson & Owen Chase & Nathaniel Philbrick & Thomas Philbrick [Nickerson, Thomas]

[CHAPTER 4TH] I WILL HERE RELATE a laughable little circumstance which took place during this passage which ever after served to amuse us whilst we were togather[.] On going below ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alastair Campbell

August holiday We had a house in Puyméras, a little village on the other side of Ventoux. We had an OK time, though there were too many party people around ...
( Category: Letters August 1,2020 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-09-28 | Author:Jim Powell

THE “FOUR HORSEMEN OF REACTION” gained support on the Court as FDR increasingly asserted arbitrary power via executive orders, rather than going through the legislative process. The Congressional Research Service ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 1,2020 )