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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 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 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 )
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 )
Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris Jones
epub |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Mary Harris Jones [Jones, Mary Harris]

Mother Jones with the Miners’ Children In many mines I met the trapper boys. Little chaps who open the door for the mule when it comes in for the coal ...
( Category: American Civil War July 20,2020 )
Jacqueline Kennedy by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Less than a hundred. Less than a hundred. But he said that in all—and I think he said it all through his Senate campaign.27 He certainly said it all through ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 20,2020 )
Butch Cassidy by Charles Leerhsen
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Charles Leerhsen [Charles Leerhsen]

2 14 ELZY Angus “Bud” McIntosh, the assistant cashier at Idaho’s Bank of Montpelier, always called it the unluckiest moment of his life, and it was easy to see why. ...
( Category: United States July 20,2020 )
The Vindications by Mary Wollstonecraft
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-02-28 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

II Dr Fordyce’s sermons* have long made a part of a young woman’s library – nay, girls at school are allowed to read them – but I should instantly dismiss ...
( Category: Feminist July 19,2020 )
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Gillian Gill

The Greatest Show on Earth … HE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE DID NOT SPEND THEIR WHOLE YEAR ON their private estates, and they had far less leisure than most of ...
( Category: Great Britain July 17,2020 )
Ten Acres Is Enough: How a Very Small Farm Can Keep a Very Large Family by Edmund Morris
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Edmund Morris

CHAPTER XY. BIRDS, AND THE SERVICES THEY RENDER. ONE morning in September, hearing shots fired repeatedly at the further end of my grounds, and proceeding thither to ascertain the cause, ...
( Category: Temperate July 17,2020 )
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
epub |eng | 2006-06-01 | Author:Justin Kaplan

SIX After the Ball Was Over i. DURING THE WINTER OF 1896–1897 the United States was mired in a period of economic distress and widespread unemployment that had begun with ...
( Category: Economic History July 16,2020 )
The Borgias: The Hidden History by G. J. Meyer
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:G. J. Meyer

Background THE PATERNITY QUESTION: AN “APOLOGY” FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IT HAS BEEN PRETTY MUCH UNIVERSALLY understood—accepted is the better word—that Cesare Borgia and his siblings were Alexander VI’s children. ...
( Category: Italy July 16,2020 )

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