epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Grace Norwich

Martin had a decision to make, and it wasn’t easy. A lot of people were counting on him to do the right thing. He left the men and went into ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Janet Pascal

“Make the dirt fly!” Roosevelt told his chief engineer. And so the workers plunged in and started digging. They didn’t know exactly what they were supposed to be doing. The ...

epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld [Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem & Obstfeld, Raymond]

19. Senior Year: We Gotta Get Out of This Place My senior year was the part of a roller-coaster ride when you slowly—agonizingly slowly—climb the lift hill, hearing each link ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Ann Bausum

Young gays gather on the steps of a Christopher Street building near the Stonewall Inn the evening after the bar’s pre-dawn raid. CHAPTER 7 THE AWAKENING “I thought, my God, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stephanie Bearce

Being a soldier inside a tank was hard duty. The temperatures could rise to 122 degrees F. There was no air filtration system, so the soldiers were breathing carbon monoxide. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2020-01-14 | Author:Paul Virr [Virr, Paul]

Albert’s equation revealed how vast amounts of energy could be released from tiny amounts of matter. He had just described the source of the nuclear power that lights up the ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Sutton, Patricia;

RESCUE AND RECOVERY Gone. Gone. Gone. —Dr. Thomas A. Carter, Chicago Health Department Nurse Helen Repa caught her breath, then pushed her way through the crowds and climbed up the ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Carol Crane

Miraculously, the next year an old schooner did appear. Moored at the same spot with trees, who had anchored it here? The Captains wife, Barbara, and her daughters had decided, ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Gayle E. Pitman

OBJECT #27 PHOTOGRAPH, PROTESTORS OUTSIDE THE STONEWALL INN This is one of the most iconic photos of the Stonewall Riots. It was taken by Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah on ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Ilene Cooper

8 IT NEVER HURTS TO BE KIND President Roosevelt won reelection for a second term in 1936 in a landslide, losing only two states. One element in his sweeping win ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Claudia Friddell

At the crack of Short’s reins, Goliath lunged forward with all his strength. Without a second to spare, the rig finally broke free. Just as they cleared the turn, the ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Rhonda Gowler Greene [Greene, Rhonda Gowler]

When Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon, the words the world was supposed to have heard were: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Balis

THE LAW VERSUS RICHARD NIXON IF WE HAVE A CONFRONTATION, WE WILL HAVE IT. IF COX DOES NOT AGREE, WE WILL GET RID OF COX. —Alexander Haig, Nixon’s chief of ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-17 | Author:Gail Jarrow

On October 31, Orson Welles met with reporters, answering their questions and expressing his bewilderment over the public’s reaction to his show. “It came rather as a great surprise to ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-27 | Author:Martin W. Sandler [Sandler, Martin W.]

Anders would always remember that “when I looked up and saw the Earth coming up on this very stark, beat-up lunar horizon, an Earth that was the only color that ...