Leaders & Notable People
azw3, epub |eng | 1885-08-16 | Author:Ronald C. White

As the hearings proceeded, according to his request, Grant began to hear from his comman-ders about incidents of violence against blacks and white Unionists. In response, he issued Gen-eral Orders ...
( Category: Americas December 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-03-12 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

17 Duties and pleasures 1766–67 “My Dear Child,” Franklin wrote Debbie a little later, packing a box for shipment home: As the Stamp Act is at length repealed, I am ...
( Category: Americas November 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-06 | Author:Jill Rappaport [Rappaport, Jill]

Howie Mandel Turning fifty was fabulous for Howie Mandel; he really made the right deal when he agreed to host the megahit game show Deal or No Deal on NBC. ...
( Category: Judaism November 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Peter Ross Range [Range, Peter Ross]

Stenglein’s drastic move made headlines. “Hitler Trial Session Blown Up,” declared the Vossische Zeitung on its front page; “You’ve Gone Too Far,” headlined its columnist. Foreign newspapers were taking notice. ...
( Category: World November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:John F. Kennedy [Kennedy, John F.]

Throughout the country, and in all walks of life, as indicated by the correspondence of Members of the Senate, the condition of the public mind was not unlike that preceding ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Willie Robertson & Korie Robertson [Robertson, Willie & Robertson, Korie]

By the time I came back to work at Duck Commander, Al had gone to seminary and become a preacher and Jase had become a really big part of the ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing November 29,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Lee B. Kennett

General Robert E. Lee in 1863, photographed at the studio of Minnis and Cowell in Richmond. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lee’s imposing appearance before the flaming Chancellor tavern was a classic ...
( Category: Americas November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Blaine Harden [Harden, Blaine]

CHAPTER 10 Uncle Yoo I After Stalin died, Uncle Yoo paid a surprise visit to his nephew’s air base in Manchuria. He was now Major Yoo, leader of a supply ...
( Category: Asia November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Michael Moore [MOORE, MICHAEL]

Though I lived an hour from the border, I knew little of Canada. I had not spent any time there as a child. My mother’s father was a Canadian, but ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Zak Ebrahim & Jeff Giles [Ebrahim, Zak & Giles, Jeff]

7 February 26, 1993 Jersey City, New Jersey I’m about to turn ten, and I’ve been bullied at school for years. I can’t pretend it’s just because of who my ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Le Ly Hayslip [Hayslip, Le Ly]

Like rice seedlings, planted row by row, my resources slowly grew. Alan and Victor split Dennis’s insurance benefit, which gave them each a nest egg for education and emergencies. The ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-08 | Author:Peter Tunstall [Tunstall, Peter]

Chapter Eight “What’s the plan?” John Milner and I were separated, and on return to Fort 15 at Thorn our treatment was unpleasant. It is something to be said for ...
( Category: Military November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:James Button [Button, James]

Chapter 6 A Big Australia ‘Well, first of all, Kerry, let me just say: I actually believe in a Big Australia. I make no apology for that. I actually think ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Etkes, Immanuel; Green, Jeffrey M.; [Etkes, Immanuel; Green, Jeffrey M.;]

Most likely the information and evaluation about the Hasidim and Hasidism that Bulgakov presented in the name of “popular opinion” derived from gentiles, whose acquaintance with Hasidism was slender, and ...
( Category: World November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-12 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]

Another matter bound up with Lincoln’s powers as commander in chief, but involving many other considerations as well, was slavery. Lincoln’s decision in 1862 to issue an emancipation proclamation freed ...
( Category: Americas November 29,2017 )