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Living among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Adena Bernstein Astrowsky [Bernstein Astrowsky, Adena]

I hear you well my dear ones, Through the utter silence from afar, Past miles of ocean well hidden, Forgotten by the world by now. Once only I saw that ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2020 )
Leon Trotsky: Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity. by Dhirubhai Patel
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2020-03-01 | Author:Dhirubhai Patel

Following the Conference, Trotsky left for a Caucasian retreat to recuperate from his delayed sickness. On his way, he found out about Lenin's passing on 21 January 1924. He was ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2020 )
The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy by John Bisney;J. L. Pickering;
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:John Bisney;J. L. Pickering;

The presidential party departs the LC-34 blockhouse at 4:17 p.m. The president’s motorcade heads toward Hangar S on Skid Strip Road in the Industrial Area, arriving at 4:20 p.m. Astronaut ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 6,2020 )
Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name by David M. Buerge
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:David M. Buerge

That summer, George Paige replaced Haley as Indian agent at Fort Kitsap, the third in less than six months. In his first annual report to James W. Nesmith, Stevens’s replacement ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal March 6,2020 )
Scamps and Scoundrels by Bob Kroll
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Bob Kroll

The Curing Qualities of a Hanged Man In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Maritimes, the law was indeed the scourge of the wicked. Many went to the gallows ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2020 )
The Battle for Syria by Christopher Phillips
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Phillips

Suleimani’s Syria? ‘Syria is occupied by the Iranian regime,’ former Syrian Prime Minister Rijad Hijab told the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya news channel in February 2013, six months after his defection. ‘The ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 5,2020 )
The Armistice and the Aftermath by John Fairley
epub |eng | 2019-01-18 | Author:John Fairley

Lawrence of Arabia, Augustus John. Prince Feisal I, Augustus John. Lawrence, with Seven Pillars of Wisdom still to be published, was taken up by the American journalist Lowell Thomas and ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 5,2020 )
Lucretia Mott's Heresy by Faulkner Carol;
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Faulkner, Carol;

CHAPTER 10 Fugitives ROBERT PURVIS ONCE CALLED LUCRETIA MOTT “the most belligerent Non-Resistant he ever saw.” She liked the characterization, telling an audience of abolitionists, “I am no advocate of ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 5,2020 )
Caesar in the USA by Wyke Maria
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Wyke, Maria

FIGURE 26. Paul Newman as Brutus, in You Are There’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” (8 March 1953). © CBS News Archive. The CBS network, even in its studio-based opening ...
( Category: Theater March 5,2020 )
Canada's Rumrunners by Art Montague
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Art Montague

The Class Act Another rumrunner well known at Main Duck was Bruce Lowery. A trustworthy man with a reputation for honesty and hard work, Bruce began as a commercial fisherman. ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2020 )
The Hill of Devi by E. M. Forster
epub |eng | 1953-03-04 | Author:E. M. Forster

GOKUL ASHTAMI The following letters on the Gokul Ashtami Festival are the most important of my letters home, for they describe (if too facetiously) rites in which a European can ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2020 )
Marshall Field's by Gayle Soucek
epub |eng | 2010-09-10 | Author:Gayle Soucek [Soucek, Gayle]

Marshall Field’s residence on Prairie Street was in a wealthy district that is now part of the National Register of Historic Places and a Chicago landmark. One of the other ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
America's Sherlock Holmes by William R. Hunt
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:William R. Hunt [Hunt, William R.]

Chapter Nine Agents Provocateurs Burns now began to picture himself as a shield of capital. Edward Levinson “William J. Burns had proved himself to the men he called sons of ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
Mr Five Per Cent by Jonathan Conlin
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-01-09 | Author:Jonathan Conlin [Conlin, Jonathan]

A Garden Near Deauville Back in 1922 Gulbenkian had dreamed of retiring to a large garden in Istanbul, ‘on the sea [where] I could sit beneath my big pine trees ...
( Category: Business March 5,2020 )
The Fisherman's Tomb by John O'Neill
epub |eng | 2018-03-04 | Author:John O'Neill

Chapter Fourteen Margherita Guarducci Epigraphy is the study of ancient inscriptions. There are few more subtle and difficult subspecialties of archeology. The locations of the ancient inscriptions are often dark, ...
( Category: Popes & the Vatican March 5,2020 )

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