epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Dana Meachen Rau [Rau, Dana Meachen]

Gandhi called the untouchables of India harijans , which means “children of God.” He wished to treat them like any other Indians. But even members of the ashram, who agreed ...

epub |eng | 2002-02-18 | Author:Stephanie Spinner [Spinner, Stephanie]

Like Annie, Bill was always striving to top himself. So he hired a writer called Steele MacKaye to turn the Wild West show into a play. The result was a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Livia Bitton-Jackson (NF)

Gina’s Secret Bratislava, November—December 1947 The lights are still on as I reach the dormitory. My roommates are preparing for bed. Malkele is nowhere to be seen, and I head ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Candace Fleming [Fleming, Candace]

“THIS IS AMELIA EARHART.” The voice that floated into the Rock Springs, Wyoming, living room sounded weak and whispery. Sixteen-year-old Dana Randolph moved closer to his shortwave radio. Dana was ...

epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Rushton, Julian

The last symphonies The most remarkable event of 1788 is the rapid completion in June, July, and August of what proved to be Mozart’s last three symphonies, in E♭ (K.543), ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-04 | Author:Joan Holub [Holub, Joan]

Marco had never seen coal before. He was amazed to see people burning black rocks. The Mongols had one of the very first pony express systems for sending mail. Marco ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-10 | Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder [Wilder, Laura Ingalls]

About the Author LAURA INGALLS WILDER was born in 1867 in a log cabin deep in the Wisconsin woods. During her pioneer years, she and her family journeyed many times ...

epub |eng | | Author:Julie Leung

CAROLINE HERSCHEL (1750–1848) was a German British astronomer who discovered numerous comets, including her namesake, the periodic 35P/Herschel-Rigollet. Throughout her adult life, she worked alongside her brother William (who discovered ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Dovey Johnson Roundtree

The commission went further still, extending their ruling beyond the vehicles themselves into the area southerners regarded as private ground—the bus and train stations and the waiting rooms therein. Julius ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:James Laxer [Laxer, James]

The British command shifted to Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who quickly mobilized his forces to drive the Americans from Canadian soil. He dispatched the 41st’s Light Company, under the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eric Metaxas

In his speech, Wilberforce did not humiliate the wicked men who had given these descriptions as he might have, and if ever anyone had been given the gifts with which ...

azw |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff [Benge, Janet]

Chapter 10 Family What do you mean? What has to stop?” Charles asked. “The street kids, of course. You have to stop bringing them here. You have to stop letting ...

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 | 2018-07-29 | Author:Veronica Chambers

OSKAR SCHINDLER #resist 1945 “I HATED THE BRUTALITY, THE SADISM AND THE INSANITY OF NAZISM. I JUST COULDN’T STAND BY AND SEE PEOPLE DESTROYED. I DID WHAT I COULD, WHAT ...