Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jim Powell

THE “FOUR HORSEMEN OF REACTION” gained support on the Court as FDR increasingly asserted arbitrary power via executive orders, rather than going through the legislative process. The Congressional Research Service ...
( Category: Americas June 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Kenneth Weisbrode

Perhaps he did attach too much importance to what he wore; but then he grew up in an age that cared for such things. Endowed with neither inches nor a ...
( Category: Historical June 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Kathy Izard

fifteen HOME ALONE Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. —James Baldwin1 The Neighbors at the center no longer felt like strangers now that I was ...
( Category: Christian Living June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Nick Foles & Joshua Cooley

SUCCESS BEGINS TO BREW Eighteen months earlier, I’d been ready to hang up my cleats. Now I had a role as Carson’s backup, and I was learning to embrace it. ...
( Category: Biographies June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Jim Proser

After all we’d fought through to get here, the landing was like sailing up to Miami Beach. Chesty was in the first boat. By the time we got in, he ...
( Category: Military June 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-25 | Author:Dan Mills

It didn’t take the OMS long to get back to their daily mortar barrages at us. After a couple of weeks, we weren’t far away from the pre-Waterloo rate of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:James Lacey [Lacey, James]

When this was written, he was just thirty-nine and his great battles at the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar were all before him. When he appeared off Cádiz, every British sailor ...
( Category: World June 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aminatta Forna

27 We spent our first night in the Angus Hotel overlooking Piccadilly Circus. Memuna shared with Auntie Yabome; Sheka and I were put in the room next door. I pulled ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Vicki Mackenzie

Through these advanced practices of Dzogchen, accomplished practitioners can bring their lives to an extraordinary and triumphant end. As they die they enable their body to be reabsorbed back into ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Steve Wick

Helene Katz long after November 1938 possessed approval from a party office to distribute photographs and related items to emigrating Jews. For this reason she was free from surveillance and ...
( Category: Historical June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Leo Damore

Chapter 38 KILLEN DISPATCHED DETECTIVE–LIEUTENANT JOHN DUNN TO Rumford, Rhode Island, to interrogate Richards—and later came to regret that he did. Dunn was a thorn in Killen’s side. A former ...
( Category: True Crime June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Church [Church, Stephen]

* Eighteen months later, on May 14, 1210, Innocent wrote to Gilbert, bishop of Rochester, and Herbert, bishop of Salisbury, ordering them to publish the sentence of interdict on England ...
( Category: Historical June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-21 | Author:Richard A. Gabriel

THE BATTLE AT THE TOWER OF AGATHOCLES, 204 BCE The Roman landing caused a panic in the immediate countryside, and the local residents fled into the towns. When the news ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

EXCHANGING PRISONERS ONCE AGAIN Despite the victory at Yorktown, there were still nearly a thousand of our brave fellows prisoners in England, and 200 in Ireland, who were destitute of ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Fettmann

The medically naive Perkins’s mention of fainting recalls the way Grace Tully wrote about him repeatedly “nodding off” while going through his mail, and Anna recalling times when her father ...
( Category: Historical June 20,2018 )