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On the Shoulders of Giants by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
epub |eng | 2007-03-19 | Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN author of Brothers and Keepers The First World Championship of Basketball On March 28, 1939, eight young black men from Harlem anxiously stood on the polished wooden ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
Famous Frocks by Dolin Bliss O'Shea
epub |eng | 2014-08-10 | Author:Dolin Bliss O'Shea [Dolin Bliss O’Shea]

AVA VARIATION The Ava halter dress variation provides a bit more coverage. With the gathered skirt and a ribbon tie that laces through the front and ties around the back ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch
epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:David Hirsch

Lincoln always focused on clarifying, clarifying, clarifying—despite any opponent’s best efforts to obfuscate: He [Judge Douglas] read upon a former occasion, and alludes without reading to-day, to a portion of ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
Sherman's March by Burke Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Burke Davis

Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel, the wife of the director of the local army medical laboratory, had stayed behind with her six children and her elderly mother when her husband fled ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
The Good Pope by Greg Tobin
epub |eng | 2012-07-06 | Author:Greg Tobin

I remember the time Pope John, who had a big foot, which could take even a ten and a half, came to me and said, “Signor Carboni, you must make ...
( Category: Catholicism August 11,2018 )
The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader by Stephen Basdeo
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Stephen Basdeo

CHAPTER FIVE Radicalism and Chartism As to the motives that have always actuated REFORMERS and LEVELLERS; (for the words are, with very few exceptions, synonymous) – whether Wat Tyler, Jack ...
( Category: Europe August 11,2018 )
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Susan Bordo

But it’s also true that the reporters’ notion of what their “job” is has changed, gradually but inexorably, since the 1950s and 1960s when the anchors—like Edward R. Murrow and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
Through the Barrier: Flying Fast Jets in the RAF and USAF by Air Vice-Marshal Clive Evans CBE DL
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Air Vice-Marshal Clive Evans CBE DL

My Uncle Bill who became a pilot in 1938 and inspired me to follow in his footsteps. My uncle (front row, centre) in Stalag Luft 1 in 1945 after 5 ...
( Category: Military August 10,2018 )
Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Tameichi Hara [Hara, Tameichi]

8 Before Admiral Tanaka’s transfer to Singapore, there was time for him to lead several more transport missions to Guadalcanal. On December 3, he commanded a force of 4 cruisers ...
( Category: Military August 10,2018 )
Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer by Mark Felton
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Mark Felton [Felton, Mark]

After the war had began, and following Bormann’s stringent efforts to beef up security around the Berghof and prevent day trippers and hikers from getting anywhere near the place, any ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 10,2018 )
The Bite in the Apple - A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs by Chrisann Brennan
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Chrisann Brennan [Brennan, Chrisann]

FOURTEEN SNAKES AND LADDERS Steve often said that he had a strong sense of having had a past life as a World War II pilot. He’d tell me how, when ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 9,2018 )
Hannibal's Road by Mike Roberts
epub |eng | 2018-07-21 | Author:Mike Roberts [Mike Roberts]

Battle of Numistro 210. The army surveyors laid out the plan of the camp, a routine followed virtually every day, with flags and upright spears driven into the earth to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 9,2018 )
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 – 30 BC by John D Grainger
epub |eng | 2018-07-21 | Author:John D Grainger [John D Grainger]

( Category: Historical August 9,2018 )
GUERRILLA WARFARE by Ernesto Che Guevara
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Ernesto Che Guevara [Guevara, Ernesto Che]

CHE GUEVARA : GUERRILLA WARFARE – CHAPTER II who have not fled must go to buy their basic foods at establishments located outside the zones of guerrilla action. Should these ...
( Category: Military August 9,2018 )
Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith
epub |eng | 2012-05-18 | Author:Ivan Smith

8 The jungle road out of Lisala had been driven over and cleared many times, and at regular intervals the moist air mixed with the stench of rotting corpses. The ...
( Category: Africa August 9,2018 )

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