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Take a Stand by Jorge Ramos
epub |eng | 2016-02-12 | Author:Jorge Ramos

SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS: THE LESSONS The last time I heard about Subcomandante Marcos was from an article in the Spanish newspaper El País, back in May 2015. The masked guerrilla had ...
( Category: Political April 24,2016 )
Surprised by Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic
azw3 |eng | 1994-09-02 | Author:Patrick Madrid (editor) & Scott Hahn

My ascent through purgatory It was during this convalescence that I had my first glimpse into the doctrine of purgatory. In fact, I began to believe in it intuitively, though ...
( Category: Christianity April 23,2016 )
Under This Roof by Paul Brandus
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Brandus

Beyond changing the White House, Theodore Roosevelt changed the way in which Americans saw the presidency itself. It was seen, more than ever, as a center of great and unmatched ...
( Category: History & Theory April 23,2016 )
The Court-Martial of Paul Revere by Michael M. Greenburg
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 23,2016 )
The Myth of the Lost Cause by Edward H. Bonekemper III
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Edward H. Bonekemper, III

CHAPTER SEVEN DID ULYSSES S. GRANT WIN THE CIVIL WAR SIMPLY BY BRUTE FORCE AND SUPERIOR NUMBERS? THE MYTH If rebel soldiers were invincible and their General Lee above reproach, ...
( Category: Civil War April 23,2016 )
Grace and Power by Sally Bedell Smith
epub |eng | 2004-05-03 | Author:Sally Bedell Smith

Jackie marked her triumphant return from India and Pakistan on Thursday, March 29, by issuing a subdued, almost melancholy statement: “It feels unnatural to me to go on such a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 23,2016 )
Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2007-04-21 | Author:Nancy Goldstone

Sanchia alt="image"/> Purses, symbols of money. CHAPTER XIV A ROYAL WINDFALL Beauty can be as effective a social or political tool as wealth or breeding, but it must be coupled ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )
Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership by Jon Knokey
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Jon Knokey

Since at least 1886, when he offered to fight against Mexico with “an entire regiment of cowboys,” Theodore had dreamed of military glory. He wanted to restore honor to the ...
( Category: Leadership April 22,2016 )
0718022173 (N) by Larry Alex Taunton
mobi |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Larry Alex Taunton

THE ATHEIST HERETIC The danger to progress in science is much increased if the theory in question obtains something like a monopoly. But there is an even greater danger: a ...
( Category: Journalists April 21,2016 )
Sniping in the Great War by Martin Pegler
epub |eng | 2013-06-07 | Author:Martin Pegler

Neither was the use of periscopes limited to observation, for a number of inventors immediately appreciated their possible use for mounting to a rifle, to enable it to be fired ...
( Category: World War I April 21,2016 )
United by Cory Booker
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Cory Booker

So let us not be petty when our cause is great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake. —JOHN F. KENNEDY In the early ...
( Category: Legislative Branch April 20,2016 )
Ibn Saud by Barbara Bray
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Barbara Bray

CHAPTER 9 ‘Calif Out’ ‘Calif Out’ read the headline above the article in Time Magazine. On March 3rd 1924 Ataturk, the new charismatic nationalist leader of Turkey, and the Turkish ...
( Category: Royalty April 16,2016 )
Soul Repair by Rita Nakashima Brock
epub |eng | | Author:Rita Nakashima Brock

4 I Will Live with Moral Injury the Rest of My Life Prepare, my friends, the knight’s return, And pray we are not too blind to learn. CAMILLO C. “MAC” ...
( Category: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder April 15,2016 )
Heir to the Empire City by Edward P. Kohn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward P. Kohn [Kohn, Edward P.]

DARK SHADOWS HAD ALWAYS cast themselves across Roosevelt’s life. In his youth he had been small and sickly. By age twenty-five, Roosevelt had grieved the loss of the three people ...
( Category: State & Local April 14,2016 )
The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Stefan Waydenfeld

A model of the log raft we built to leave Kvasha The Uftyuga River from Kvasha to Krasnoborsk * In fact, the author was born in a clinic in the ...
( Category: Russia April 14,2016 )

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