epub |eng | 2019-12-10 | Author:Leila Hirschfeld & Tom Hirschfeld [Hirschfeld, Leila & Hirschfeld, Tom]

The Gulf Stream is actually part of the North Atlantic Gyre, which flows clockwise. South of the equator, gyres rotate counterclockwise, as do most hurricanes (but not toilet flushes—that’s just ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:William R. Sanford [Sanford, William R.]

Image Credit: The Granger Collection, NYC Masked cattle rustlers pose for a photo during the 1880s. Cattle rustlers and bandits, led by the Mexican general Juan Cortina, became a serious ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Frieda Wishinsky

Memphis Reservoir, Tennessee When Wells found a job outside of Memphis in a country school in Woodstock, she rode the train to work and studied for her licensing exam so ...

epub |eng | | Author:volker Mehnert

The colonial city of Bogotá, which the friends soon reached, was a good example of one such bustling, high-altitude city. Located at 8,660 feet above sea level, today the city ...

epub |eng | | Author:Keith Ferrell

THIRTEENFIGHTING FABIAN THROUGH ALL OF HIS work at global plans and prescriptions, Wells never forgot that he was a novelist. It was with fiction that he made his reputation, and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

29 Here Be Monsters Col. Carrington and his men pushed off from Fort Laramie on June 17, 1866, the day before the peace conference formally ended. The conference was “a ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:William R. Sanford [Sanford, William R.]

Image Credit: National Archives and Records Administration While searching for the source of the Arkansas River, Zebulon Pike and his party lost their way in the Rocky Mountains. While the ...

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 | 2004-07-15 | Author:James Tertius de Kay

As Decatur’s ship wore to starboard in an attempt to gain the weather gauge, the stranger anticipated the move and hauled up, thwarting the American and forcing Decatur to wear ...

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 | 2019-03-19 | Author:Peggy Thomas

The first cotton gin. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-103801 Seeing the landscape, Carver must have realized he had found his mission in life. He would teach black farmers ...

epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Kathleen Kudlinski

“Mother will take care of them,” he answered smoothly. That easygoing confidence kept the treatment center growing. Roosevelt used all his people skills to gather medical support and financial funding. ...

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 | 2017-05-24 | Author:Douglas Yacka

Chief Red Eagle It might surprise you to learn that the man called Chief Red Eagle was named William Weatherford. Although his mother’s side of the family was Native American, ...

epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:George E. Stanley

A Bad Accident “Harry!” Harry looked up from the woodpile, where he had been splitting chunks of wood into sticks for the stove. Caroline Simpson, the family’s black cook—whom Harry ...