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Cat Tale by Craig Pittman
epub |eng | 2019-11-20 | Author:Craig Pittman

* * * When Maehr was sitting on the developers’ side of the table, pushing for a permit for The Habitat, there was a biologist from the US Fish and ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers March 16,2020 )
The Strategy of Victory by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart
epub |eng | | Author:David O. Stewart

Chapter Sixteen The Curse of Heaven AUGUST 8–29 AS IT HAD BEFORE, slavery came up in a sideways fashion. On the second day of debate over the Rutledge Committee re- ...
( Category: Constitutions March 16,2020 )
American Connections by James Burke
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2018-11-25 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation As foreshadowing the course I later, as President, followed in this matter, I give extracts from one of my letters to the Commission, and from my second (and last) ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass

C HAPTER II My master’s family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in one house, upon the home ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 15,2020 )
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
epub |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Simon Callow [Callow, Simon]

Even as he moodily and metaphorically contemplated the dead old man, his sense of humour, which rarely deserted him entirely, however wretched and restless he might be, asserted itself: ‘I ...
( Category: Victorian March 15,2020 )
Chiang Kai Shek by Jonathan Fenby
epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [JONATHAN FENBY]

* * * * Now known as Lugouqiao. PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 ——— Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
The Boys of the Dark by Robin Gaby Fisher Michael O'McCarthy Robert W. Straley
epub |eng | 2018-11-09 | Author:Robin Gaby Fisher, Michael O'McCarthy, Robert W. Straley

( Category: Criminology March 15,2020 )
No Ordinary Heroes by Demaree Inglese
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Demaree Inglese

Brady and I sat under the overhang on the back porch of the Correctional Center while we ate. Lunch consisted of an odd selection of items the deputies had salvaged ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 15,2020 )
Presidents of the United States of America: A History of America's Leaders by Taylor Franklin
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Taylor, Franklin [Taylor, Franklin]

At only forty-three years of age, he was nevertheless well prepared for the job. He was well-read and well-traveled. He was an avid reader and sometimes would read up to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
A Nice Tuesday by Jordan Pat;
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jordan, Pat; [Jordan, Pat;]

ELEVEN A few days after I talked to Miles Wolfe I got a call from Bob Wirsz, the Waterbury Spirit owner. He was circumspect over the phone. “I’ll pitch you,” ...
( Category: Baseball March 15,2020 )
LIFE Lincoln: An Intimate Portrait by The Editors of LIFE
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:The Editors of LIFE

RALPH CRANE/LIFE The Springfield House At the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets in downtown Springfield stood the one and only house Abraham Lincoln would ever own. “The little home ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre by Matilda Sager
epub |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Matilda Sager [Sager, Matilda]

We always picked berries in the spring and summer. There was not much tame fruit—a few seedling apples. The only way we travelled was on horseback. The first printing press ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )
Generalissimo by Jonathan Fenby
epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [Fenby, Jonathan]

PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, as a typhoon blew through Shanghai picking up people ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )

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