Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:James Robertson [Robertson, James]

GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE LAYING THE TRACKS FOR EXPANSION JAY GOULD OWNED the Union Pacific Railroad, but the man most responsible for its creation was Massachusetts native Grenville Mellen Dodge. A ...
( Category: Americas January 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Peter Hart [Hart, Peter]

The surviving German machine guns gave the Australians the unwanted chance to judge the killing potential of these guns in the relatively open fields of the Somme battlefields compared to ...
( Category: Military January 12,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Winston Churchill

When the Duke of Savoy receives these dispatches, and secs how earnest the Queen is in giving him all the assistance that is possible, it will encourage H.R.H. to continue ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:James Thomas Flexner

* The term cabinet, although too useful not to be used here, was not current during most of Washington’s Presidency. TWENTY-NINE The Social Man (1789) The aspect of the Presidency ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:Vassili Subbotin [Subbotin, Vassili]

Encounter It had become quieter and we found our way around eventually up the unending stairs and through the passages. It was light in the big conference room that was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Desert Warrior

Tariq hung up the phone for the fourth time. He was annoyed by his wife's subtle rebellion, but another, more dangerous emotion threatened. That emotion would not let him forget ...
( Category: Middle East January 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Bill Minutaglio

SUPREME SERVANTS Early February 1971 On February 1, Cleaver’s broadcast from the heart of the Algerian outpost—detailing how Timothy Leary’s mind was “blown by acid”—is aired on radio stations around ...
( Category: Historical January 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Andrew Nagorski [Nagorski, Andrew]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A Slap to Remember “Because we were weak, we had to take strong actions. And the strongest action is to go on the spot where the enemy is ...
( Category: Military January 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Michael Harris

THE GREATEST WEATHER-FORECASTING SYSTEM IN HISTORY MANY DAYS AFTER Cherokee, we were all assembled for an important announcement from Major Maxwell. We knew before he started that it would have ...
( Category: Memoirs January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Christina Crawford

REFLECTIONS FROM NICKI BAILEY Tina was fourteen when I met her at Chadwick School. She was an overweight tenth-grader who excelled academically but was very unsure of herself as a ...
( Category: Memoirs January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Olivier Rolin

1 at the end of October 1937, 1,116 prisoners embark for Kem and from that moment all trace of them is lost for sixty years. It is a dismal autumn ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 10,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-06-08 | Author:Osho

BY THE WAY, I HAVE BEEN CALLING MYSELF BHAGWAN JUST AS A challenge—to the Christians, to the Mohammedans, to the Hindus. They have condemned me, but none has been courageous ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:George Wayne

GW: Are you a restless individual? IS: I am. I have a fire inside but I have been getting more at peace with myself as I grow older. I have ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-01 | Author:Jacqueline Jones

The wealth of this country should be equally distributed, she thinks. If one man through shrewdness should then amass more wealth than his neighbor, this surplus should be taken away ...
( Category: Specific Groups January 10,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-08-04 | Author:Jennings, Lew [Jennings, Lew]

May 16 (Day 7) The 3/187th focused on rest and resupply to get ready for the assault planned for the following day. D Company replaced B Company for the planned ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 10,2018 )