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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Daniel James Brown [Brown, Daniel James]

10 THE HEART ON THE MOUNTAIN The first order of business on the morning of December 27 was to make a fire. Under the blankets, William Eddy poured some black ...
( Category: Women July 20,2020 )
The Tragedy of St. Helena by Sir Walter Runciman
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Sir Walter Runciman

CHAPTER IV THE OLIGARCHY, THEIR AGENTS AND APOLOGISTS It would be an easy task to enlarge on the excellent qualities of this wonderful man. Volumes could be written about this ...
( Category: Historical July 20,2020 )
Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh by Joyce A. Tyldesley
epub |eng | 2001-04-25 | Author:Joyce A. Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce A.]

Notes 1 This piece is illustrated and described in Freed, R. E. (1987), Ramesses the Great; his life and world, Memphis: 136. 2 Discussed, with the history of the development ...
( Category: Asia July 20,2020 )
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Richard Rhodes [Rhodes, Richard]

* * * I. “Cracking” simply means breaking down, as in cracking a nut. II. To be specific, it was organized according to the elements’ electronegativity or electropositivity: the degree ...
( Category: Electric July 20,2020 )
The Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Julie Checkoway [CHECKOWAY, JULIE]

The Coral Casino Club at the Biltmore hotel was no casino at all but an exclusive and private beach club, contemporary and sleek and opened in the summer of 1937. ...
( Category: Asian American Studies July 20,2020 )
The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came To Power by Peter Ross Range
epub |eng | 2020-05-12 | Author:Peter Ross Range [Range, Peter Ross]

36 HINDENBURG, HUGENBERG, AND HARZBURG He can lick me from behind. —President Paul von Hindenburg, 1931 Adolf Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg had never met. By the autumn of ...
( Category: History & Theory July 20,2020 )
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Darwin Porter & DANFORTH PRINCE
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Darwin Porter & DANFORTH PRINCE

AN UNLIKELY SPITFIRE who aged with dignity: Lady Jeanne Campbell, legendary for having sustained affairs with JFK, Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Luce, Fidel Castro, and a turbulent marriage to literary bad ...
( Category: Women in History July 20,2020 )
The Merchant of Prato’s Wife: Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360–1423 by Crabb Ann
epub |eng | | Author:Crabb, Ann [Crabb, Ann]

Margherita’s letter to Francesco of 1388 does not seem to have been written for any particular reason. Coming a few months after the birth of his first illegitimate child, it ...
( Category: Historical July 20,2020 )
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (Nonpareil Books) by Will Cuppy
epub |eng | 1998-01-06 | Author:Will Cuppy [Cuppy, Will]

MADAME DU BARRY JEANNE DU BARRY was a dear friend of Louis XV for about six years, from 1768 until his death in 1774. At first glance this would seem ...
( Category: Parodies July 20,2020 )
Shuttle, Houston by Paul Dye
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Paul Dye [DYE, PAUL]

Fly the Plan Planning a mission took a large number of organizations. It really took parts of the entire agency. Training for the mission, however, was mostly the province of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight July 20,2020 )
Twelve Apostles by Tim Pat Coogan
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tim Pat Coogan [Coogan, Tim Pat]

CHAPTER EIGHT Bloody Sunday The infamous Cairo Gang, a group of British Intelligence operatives active in Dublin during the War of Independence. Several of these men were killed on ‘Bloody ...
( Category: Europe July 20,2020 )
THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND by William Thackeray
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:William Thackeray

Chapter 11 THE FAMOUS MR JOSEPH ADDISON1 THE gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St James’s, at either of which ...
( Category: Biographical July 20,2020 )
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Ph.D. Trump
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Mary L. Ph.D. Trump [Trump, Mary L. Ph.D.]

* * * Eight months before the gift of underwear, Donald and Ivana were married at Marble Collegiate Church and held their reception at the 21 Club. Mom, Fritz, and ...
( Category: Historical July 20,2020 )
Coffee: A Global History by Jonathan Morris
epub |eng | 2018-10-14 | Author:Jonathan Morris [Morris, Jonathan]

Colombia, 1970s–80s. Hand-picking on the mountain slopes. As this image shows, mechanization is not an option for Colombian coffee growers. Its wide-ranging powers enabled the FNCC to effectively manipulate the ...
( Category: Coffee & Tea July 20,2020 )
American Patriots by Rick Santorum
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Rick Santorum [Santorum, Rick]

Today’s moviegoers may know Charles Carroll of Carrollton as the dying man in National Treasure who knew about a coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and ...
( Category: American Revolution July 20,2020 )

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