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Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. Job ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 14,2020 )
The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David V. Herlihy [Herlihy, David V.]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling October 1,2020 )
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher by Max Allan Collins
epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:Max Allan Collins

AFTER TWO YEARS in the federal service, Ness’s interest began to wane. The work still offered challenges and affirmation—Ness’s scrapbook bulged with newspaper clippings and letters of praise and thanks, ...
( Category: Law Enforcement August 6,2020 )
The Enigma of Isaac Babel by Freidin Gregory
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Freidin, Gregory.

. . . everything resumed movement: the coachmen loosened the reins, lowered their long whips; the horses, animated, shook their harness chains, tossed foam around them, and the hindquarters and ...
( Category: Russian August 6,2020 )
Looking for Miss America by Margot Mifflin
epub |eng | 2020-05-21 | Author:Margot Mifflin

EVEN AS ITS STAR WAS dimming in the 1970s, the pageant was progressing, quietly, in a few ways. During her 1972 reign, Laurel Lea Schaefer became a spokesperson for families ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
Renegade by Richard Wolffe
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Richard Wolffe [Wolffe, Richard]

Trinity was the place where Barack married Michelle and they baptized their daughters. But its role in Obama’s religious and political life was vague: a presence, but not a pivotal ...
( Category: Elections August 6,2020 )
Desk 88 by Sherrod Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Sherrod Brown

* * * WEALTHY BUSINESS INTERESTS dominated southern politics more than in any region of the country. In 1895 a Massachusetts company opened a factory in Alabama to escape strikes ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
Nasser by Saïd K. Aburish
epub |eng | | Author:Saïd K. Aburish

7 Search for an Honorable Exit Gamal Abdel Nasser, astute, instinctive, and with a rare natural ability to sense and judge his surroundings, was probably the only one among the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 6,2020 )
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution by Mark Puls
epub |eng | 2008-02-05 | Author:Mark Puls [Puls, Mark]

American prospects for the war did not brighten with the spring of 1780. On May 12 in Charleston, South Carolina, British general Henry Clinton forced the surrender of General Lincoln, ...
( Category: American Revolution August 6,2020 )
Motor City Mafia by Scott M. Burnstein
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Scott M. Burnstein

Motor City Mob chief Michael “Big Mike” Polizzi is shown in an FBI surveillance photograph from the 1970s. Polizzi, whose father-in-law was syndicate superpower Giovanni “Papa John” Priziola, was assigned ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )
Madame Tussaud by Kate Berridge
epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Kate Berridge

10 Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London ONE OF PHILIPSTAL’S programmes of entertainment in London was entitled ‘A Magical Deception’. But unfortunately it was not just on stage that ...
( Category: American Revolution August 6,2020 )
Free for All by Kenneth Turan
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Kenneth Turan [Turan, Kenneth]

17 That Championship Season 1972 Charles Durning and Walter McGinn © Friedman-Abeles Wow! Here at last is the perfect Broadway play of the season, perfectly acted and perfectly staged. There ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers August 6,2020 )
Aubuchon Hardware by Bernard W. Aubuchon Jr
epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Bernard W. Aubuchon Jr.

John B. Aubuchon, at the age of 84, uses a tricycle to quickly travel from one end of the distribution center to the other. Battery-powered forklifts and tuggers are used ...
( Category: Business August 6,2020 )
Crossing the Plains with Bruno by Annick Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Annick Smith [Smith, Annick]

HOUSE IN THE DUNES DAYS FOUR AND FIVE, MAY 14–15 Outer Drive. I take the Outer Drive along the lakeshore’s pale green parkways, which this damp morning are flecked yellow, ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions by Burgess Colin
epub |eng | 2019-09-29 | Author:Burgess, Colin

can engage pca by using fuel transfer to offset the center of gravity toward 26 the operating engine. John Bull and his colleagues at nasa Ames have 27 fashioned a ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 6,2020 )

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