Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Namath

Chapter Eight Time to get up and stretch the legs, now featuring two artificial knees, a new hip, and an abnormal-looking left hamstring. That last injury was due to a ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Garry Jenkins [Jenkins, Garry]

Hatfield’s name was on almost every tongue in San Diego yesterday. Many were inclined to jest when his operations were mentioned, but all agreed that things were coming his way. ...
( Category: American Revolution May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Myron Magnet

A NOTE of icy scorn runs through Thomas’s opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Court upheld affirmative-action admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. ...
( Category: Constitutions May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:George Packer

* * * — THE TRIP TO LONDON clarified in ever starker terms the reality of the U.S. relationship with our European NATO allies. The Europeans will not use NATO ...
( Category: Diplomacy May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

THE 29TH PENNSYLVANIA FORMING LINE OF BATTLE ON CULP’S HILL AT 10 A.M., JULY 3. Most of the enemy’s projectiles passed overhead, the effect being to sweep all the open ...
( Category: American Civil War May 8,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Brion McClanahan

Indivisible Liberty “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Benjamin Franklin, 1775. He took another job in a printing ...
( Category: American Revolution May 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:Jack Murphy

PART II CHAPTER 10 Anything You Do Can Get You Killed, Including Doing Nothing I DIDN’T SEE ANY future for me in the army. We stood tall on the parade ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars May 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:O'Brien, Phillips Payson

CHAPTER 22 Atomic Bombs and Elections When the presidential train finally pulled into the siding by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on August 17, Washington, DC, was bathed in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Janny Scott

* * * — At the “cottage” in Maine, a shadow fell over the summer of 1941. War was raging in Europe and Asia. The United States would soon join. ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Chileng Pa

8 A Poem for Grandmother This is dedicated to my beloved grandmother who made my life complete. Damned guerrilla Did you ever Have mercy on The Khmer people, Or did ...
( Category: Vietnam War May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anuradha Bhagwati

CHAPTER 10 Unraveling In 2007, three years out of the Marines, I was in the mental health wing at the Manhattan VA Medical Center, crying in an empty room on ...
( Category: Military May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Carolyn Forché

* * * — “You wanted to know where I live. This is one place.” We had pulled in front of a wall. He turned the engine off and checked ...
( Category: Social Activists May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Robert Hardman [Robert Hardman]

* * * Princess Elizabeth (centre) with Princess Margaret, sounding the whistle of the royal train, South Africa, 1947. * * * Princess Elizabeth, aged 20, during that 1947 tour ...
( Category: Women May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-06 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

XIV REBELLION, DISASTER AND VENGEANCE ‘And then, since he had not anticipated anything, Sabinus panicked, and rushed here and there deploying the cohorts, but even this he did timidly and ...
( Category: Rome May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

The removal of her rival – in the eyes of the world, if not in the affections of the King – should have ushered in the happiest period of Queen ...
( Category: Royalty May 4,2019 )