Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Glaser [Glaser, Linda]

At that time, the Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with immigrants. But Emma knew that immigrants would see the huge woman when their boats arrived in New York ...
( Category: History August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Don Brown

( Category: Biographies August 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-08 | Author:Bonnie Bader

In newspaper accounts of the battle, Robert was blamed unfairly. People called him “Granny Lee.” They said he was too afraid to attack. It was a hard time for Robert. ...
( Category: History August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Emily Smucker

The Smart Mouse ONE NIGHT, AS I WAS calmly standing around in the kitchen I saw a mouse run down the hall. I shrieked (of course), Amy came running (of ...
( Category: Biographies August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Abraham and Mary Todd Abraham met Mary Todd at a dance. She was visiting her sisters in Springfield. Mary was well educated, lively, and pretty. She’d studied French, dancing, music, ...
( Category: Biographies August 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Joan Holub [Holub, Joan]

When Johnny told stories, his gray eyes sparkled. He knew how to use his voice to build a story to a thrilling climax or to make people laugh. One thing ...
( Category: History August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Sterling North [North, Sterling]

8 Jack of All Trades The store winked out. A. LINCOLN During the next five years, Lincoln was a storekeeper, postmaster, surveyor, state assemblyman, and newly licensed lawyer. In all ...
( Category: Biographies July 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Brad Herzog

BASKETBALL FREE SPIRIT 1960s and 1970s • UNITED STATES “Failure is unimportant,” the great silent-film actor Charlie Chaplin once said. “It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” Chaplin ...
( Category: Sports & Outdoors July 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Judith Bloom Fradin [Fradin, Judy and Dennis]

This early 1860s photo of slave quarters on a sugarcane plantation was taken in Houma, Louisiana, not far from where Solomon supervised 75 cane cutters. (Illustration Credits 1.21) At this ...
( Category: History July 28,2018 )
epub |deu | | Author:Ludmilla Bollow

Bad things happen on the farm, too. One afternoon, Uncle Steven doesn’t eat lunch with us because he is still in the fields trying to finish his work before the ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:Otto Jahn [Jahn, Otto]

Mozart's musical instruction was sure to be desultory. Freystädter relates that he generally received Mozart's directions and corrections of his musical exercises sitting at a side-table, while a game of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature July 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:A. Gilbert Wright

This exhibition once again extended Karl’s interest in the geographic distribution of reptiles and amphibians. As must always be the case in the observational sciences, Karl arrived at general conclusions ...
( Category: Science, Nature & How It Works July 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Mike Yorkey [Yorkey, Mike; Florea, Jesse]

Chapter 12 Locked Out, But Locked In With NBA owners and the Players Association unable to agree on a new contract, the 2011 NBA lockout began on July 1. As ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures July 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Phillip Hoose

There are more statues of Sacagawea today than of any female in U.S. history, although no one knows what she really looked like. This early-nineteenth-century magazine illustration shows one artist’s ...
( Category: Biographies July 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

( Category: Religions July 21,2018 )