epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]

Chapter 10 Into the Sunderbans William Carey shook his friend’s hand and walked out through the huge wrought iron gates. Once he was out of sight of the mansion, he ...

epub |eng | 2003-06-30 | Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]

Chapter 10 Seal Hunt At noon on March 30, 1896, the church bells of St. John’s pealed loudly. Wilfred stood on the deck of the Greenland, crammed in alongside three ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Carol Ann Lee

It was seven thirty in the morning, on June 12, 1929, when Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt’s city hospital. Her birth had been long and difficult, and the ...

epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:M.M. Eboch

Milton struggled to balance his account books, but things only got worse. By October of 1880, he was desperate for help. “It is my own fault,” he said to his ...

epub |eng | | Author:Luke Reynolds

20 DUKE KAHANAMOKU The sport of surfing is an ancient one that stretches back as far as human activity has been recorded. It has been practiced along the coasts of ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Mary Cronk Farrell

A crowd of African American Women’s Army Corps members waving at the camera. Staten Island Terminal, New York Port of Embarkation, February 1945. CHAPTER 10 The 6888th Goes to Europe ...

epub |eng | 2002-02-17 | Author:Dennis Brindell Fradin [Fradin, Dennis Brindell]

Ben’s ideas about health were very modern. At the time, people thought that strange vapors in the air caused illness. Although germs weren’t yet known, Franklin said that many diseases ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Jewett, Sophie [Jewett, Sophie]

Brother Wolf "Said Grey Brother, 'Where shall we lair to-day? for from now we follow new trails.' " —Kipling THE huts in the plain below Assisi were the home of ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-27 | Author:Jan Greenberg [Greenberg, Jan; Jordan, Sandra]

All the fairs George attended gave him an opportunity to see the designs of other potteries and to compare his own work. This time he won a silver medal, the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Larry Dane Brimner

When rain began falling in San Diego, many people were caught unaware when normally dry washes became raging torrents of water. Many of San Diego’s backcountry bridges—including this railroad bridge—were ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Teri Kanefield

A copy of one of Benjamin Franklin’s letters to Suzy, sent April 28, 1755. The idea evidently worked. Franklin got the word to the various townships and succeeded in gathering ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Annie turned and saw the jackals running toward her. “Oh, no!” she cried. Shrieking, Koku leapt from Annie’s arms and bounded across the dry, cracked ground. When the jackals saw ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roberta Edwards

BOSTON TEA PARTY IN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA ANGRY CROWDS PREVENTED BRITISH BOATS FROM UNLOADING CARGOES OF TEA. ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 16, 1773, MEN IN BOSTON WENT EVEN ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-04 | Author:Gare Thompson

Franklin sent Eleanor flowers, poems, and books. And they talked. Some people thought that Eleanor could have chosen someone better. Not Eleanor. She said that she saw “the promise that ...

mobi |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Warren, Andrea [Warren, Andrea]

Horses were essential for transportation, and Billy knew that horse stealing was big business. Escape was foremost in Billy’s mind. “I was . . . certain that I had uncovered ...