Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Stephen Backhouse

Armed Neutrality. If my relation were to pagans, I could not be neutral; then in opposition to them I would have to say that I am a Christian. But I ...
( Category: Christian Theology November 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-26 | Author:Lazenby, Roland [Lazenby, Roland]

The Lakers defeated Houston in the first round of the play-offs that season, then were swept by San Antonio in the next round. As things turned sour, Derek Harper was ...
( Category: Basketball November 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Tim Shipman

17 Aunty Beeb Craig Oliver was furious. He had just tuned in to his first BBC bulletin of the day, and his former employers were leading with a row orchestrated ...
( Category: European November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:L'Engle, Madeleine;

Six Sometimes Hugh’s farawayness has been literal; physical, not spiritual. If my childhood and young womanhood were not typical of the usual pattern of growing up in America, neither was ...
( Category: Authors November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:L'Engle, Madeleine;

III The Mother I Did Not Know 1 “Tell me a story, Mother,” I used to demand in the very early morning in the days on Eighty-second Street when I ...
( Category: Religious November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:L'Engle, Madeleine;

3 Our youngest child, when he first became conscious of vocabulary, often did violence to words in absurd little ways which delighted us. Hugh and I listened seriously, lest we ...
( Category: Religious November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

Chapter VI 1830-1840 Commencement of the Most Valuable Friendship of My Life--My Father's Death--Writings and Other Proceedings Up to 1840 It was the period of my mental progress which I ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Phil West [WEST, PHIL]

The team did have successes that were hard to ignore—namely, its 1976 Soccer Bowl triumph against the Minnesota Kicks in Seattle—but it was ultimately an iteration of the franchise that ...
( Category: History of Sports November 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Maurice White & Herb Powell [White, Maurice]

16 Departure All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. —Ralph Waldo Emerson When we started recording what would become Spirit, our ...
( Category: Rhythm & Blues September 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Barbara Boxer

Unfortunately, President Bush made only half-hearted efforts to find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The more bin Laden eluded him, the more he seemed to become frustrated and bored. So ...
( Category: Political September 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Lowry [Lowry, Richard]

Dedication Ceremonies, by Alexander Gardner, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 (illustrations credit 3.17) ONE account of Lincoln’s speech tells of the crowd’s distraction by a photographer hurrying to get his camera ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Conason

* * * The first time Bill Clinton mentioned CGI in a public forum had been almost nine months earlier, when he took the World Economic Forum stage in Davos ...
( Category: General September 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Terryl L. Givens & Matthew J. Grow [Givens, Terryl L. & Grow, Matthew J.]

I am Alone!—Alone!—Alone! O Horable!—Yes—Alone—the Punishment—the Hell I always dread—and the one to which I am often doomed. How oft has it been my lot to Spend wearysome days, weeks ...
( Category: United States September 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

CHAPTER SIX A CHANCE FOR PEACE? American officials had long assumed that Stalin’s death would expose the fragility of his regime. As far back as February 1946, George Kennan advised ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael McManus

Almost unbelievably, Heath began 1980 by criticising the EEC again, this time for its lack of urgency. He was readily drawn into the controversy over whether British athletes should boycott ...
( Category: European September 10,2016 )