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Herod the Great by Norman Gelb
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Norman Gelb

* * * Alexander the Great had introduced Hellenic culture to the Middle East in the fourth century BCE. It had deep-reaching impact with comparative rapidity after his conquest of ...
( Category: Religion March 22,2020 )
George Whitefield by Thomas S. Kidd
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas S. Kidd

Whitefield longed to return to America, but following up his work in Scotland seemed more pressing. God had wrought a great renewal in the wake of his visit; exuberant Scottish ...
( Category: American Revolution March 22,2020 )
Secret Life of Cowboys by Tom Groneberg
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Groneberg

THE LAST DOG AND PONY SHOW It is twenty below zero at noon. I leave the ranch and drive south on Highway 59, through the frozen landscape. Past the communities ...
( Category: West March 22,2020 )
Mengele by Gerald L. Posner & John Ware
epub |eng | 2000-03-14 | Author:Gerald L. Posner & John Ware

According to statements in the press, the police have Mengele’s fingerprints in their possession, since it was possible to prove that the fingerprints of Lothar Hermann were not identical to ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2020 )
We are Lincoln Men by David Herbert Donald
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:David Herbert Donald

“B EYOND THE PALE OF HUMAN ENVY ” Lincoln and William H. Seward ON November 16, 1862, Virginia Woodbury Fox recorded a delicious piece of gossip in her diary. “Tish,” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
Morning in America by Troy Gil
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Troy, Gil

An Economy Fueled by Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders? Creative financing became increasingly important in reviving corporate America. “Junk bonds,” low-rated, high-yielding issues for new but potentially very profitable ventures, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
All I Ever Wanted to Be Was A Cowboy by Bill Roberts
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Bill Roberts

Bonifay After the Thompson affair at Okahumpka, Theo Johns and I continued to get a lot of work together. He had left the Castro job and settled on a ranch ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education by Holowchak M. Andrew
epub |eng | | Author:Holowchak, M. Andrew [M. Andrew Holowchak]

English, thus, has the capacity for greater copiousness than Greek. Having a neologism-friendly language goes beyond euphony and copiousness. It allows for utmost precision of meaning and clarity of expression. ...
( Category: Educators March 22,2020 )
Lincoln Steffens by Justin Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Kaplan

CHAPTER ELEVEN Winds of Change I “T HE DAYS ARE WONDERFUL AND the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant,” Gertrude Stein wrote in “Portrait of Mabel Dodge at ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Shedding Our Stars by Laureen Nussbaum
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Laureen Nussbaum

Chapter Eighteen WHERE TO FIT IN? At the end of 1946, Calmeyer was asked by the Osnabrück inspector for the Office of Denazification, a Mr. Goers, to preside over a ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine & Lisa McCubbin
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Gerald Blaine & Lisa McCubbin

13 Breakdown Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —JOHN F. KENNEDY NOVEMBER 22, 1963 There are moments in history that change the world forever. Time ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
Light in the Queen's Garden by Sandra E. Bonura
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Sandra E. Bonura

CHAPTER TWELVE Outside the School Gates Pālama Settlement Most of Miss Pope’s 1897 graduates had been together since early childhood. Kamehameha had been more than a school; it had been ...
( Category: Women in History March 22,2020 )
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY by ROY MORRIS JR
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:ROY MORRIS, JR.

However it was characterized, Mark Twain’s abrupt departure from Virginia City signaled the end of an era. For the better part of three years, he had been an enthusiastic participant ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2020 )
Reagan, In His Own Hand by Kiron K. Skinner
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Kiron K. Skinner

Tax Loopholes May 1975 Hang on to your pocketbooks in Wash., they’re talking tax reform again. I’ll be right back. From time to time I’m going to talk about loopholes ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
Murder on the Florida Frontier by Andrew Fink
epub |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Andrew Fink

“THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF SAM’L MCMILLAN EXPLAINED” The October 19, 1882 edition of the South Florida Journal reported the finding of the body with the headline “The Mysterious Disappearance of ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )

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