Historical Biographies
epub |eng | 2020-11-21 | Author:Howard Ball

DEFENDING THE MISSISSIPPI KU KLUX KLAN In fall 1977, the Mississippi ACLU’s executive director acted unilaterally and, for such a small organization, disastrously. Without any discussion with the board before ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-31 | Author:Sokphal Din [Din, Sokphal]

15 While I was away working at the youth labour camp my brother Sokbonn was caught stealing pumpkin leaves. He was eight years old and so thin that the blue ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

13 Watershed Some moments in history – the outbreaks of the two world wars, for instance – are recognizably catastrophic, like earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. There are similar moments in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-02 | Author:Leslie Brody [Brody, Leslie]

Immediately after the exhibit, Louise basked in what seemed to have been a success. The reviews were good and she’d sold eighteen pieces. But a few weeks later, she was ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-17 | Author:John S.C. Abbott

* * * CHAPTER VII THE WAR IN HOLLAND. 1670-1679 Madame de Montespan was now the reigning favorite. The conscience-stricken king could not endure to think of death. He studiedly ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2000-07-31 | Author:William Shakespeare

Enter EARL OF SALISBURY Welcome, my lord how far off lies your power? EARL OF SALISBURY Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord, Than this weak arm: discomfort guides ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 1,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Clarence Clemons; Don Reo

The Legend of Central Park, 2000 This story is based on truth. I did go to see Jacob play in the Park. What happens after I leave is made up, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 1,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five Hitler’s Imprisonment and Subsequent Rise to Power “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 31,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-14 | Author:Bierbauer Alec

WELCOME TO TACO BELL June 2001 “Hoh-lee shit.” A couple of the guys who climbed out of the Suburban echoed my response; others just whistled. I had asked for Tarnak ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-26 | Author:Ben Montgomery [Montgomery, Ben]

Grider wasn’t quite finished making his argument. On the morning of July 2, the defense called Zack Murray, the first man Dinning saw after the shooting. He lived a mile ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-31 | Author:Robert Dessaix

Yutori A beautiful old age is impossible if you don’t clean up your clutter: clutter kills—cluttered time, cluttered space. Apart from anything else, it triggers cancer, Alzheimer’s and irritable bowel ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:John Leland

Benvolio fights with Italian fencing techniques, which the English favored over the Spanish. That Tybalt is “a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic” (3.1.102) paints “the complex geometrical ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Ronald W. Hawker

According to museum provenance at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, Peter Smith (Sewidanaquilla, also spelled Siwid’nakwala) was a Tlawitsis chief and commissioned James to carve a pole (Figure 4.5) in 1907 ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 29,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2018-12-09 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six Public Enemy Number One “I’ve been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.” —Al Capone For most of 1928 you might think that ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 29,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-07-21 | Author:The History Hour [Hour, The History]

So together, they forbade the company to pay. An eight-year legal battle ensued. And Ford won. There is much to be said for a little dose of ignorance. ‘I will ...
( Category: Historical Biographies January 29,2021 )