Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Roehm McCann

More than fifty years have passed since the Dalai Lama’s escape, and Tibet is still not free. Chinese immigrants now outnumber Tibetans, and the country’s ancient religion and traditions are ...
( Category: Explore the World June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Peggy Caravantes

7 Joséphine’s Challenges PORTUGAL WELCOMED JOSÉPHINE with invitations to diplomatic parties at the British, Belgian, and French embassies. As she moved from one ambassador to another, she listened for information ...
( Category: Women June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Lasky, Kathryn

March 2, 1770 I received today the most astounding note from Mama. I paste it here in my diary. Daughter, Bravo! You have excelled in the most important lesson I ...
( Category: Europe May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Hoose

Letter from Kaj Munk to Edvard Pedersen * * * Kaj Munk Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, commonly called Kaj Munk (1898–1944), was a Danish playwright, poet, Lutheran priest, and activist. ...
( Category: Europe May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

FIRST QUARTER MOON, DAY 1 Maguana is beautiful. Just as I remember from my childhood visits, it is full of green hills and fertile valleys joined by rivers whose beds ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Howard Bryant

McGwire–Sosa TOP TEN LIST The Mark McGwire–Sammy Sosa home run chase simultaneously revived baseball while becoming a turning point in sports regarding the prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs. The record books ...
( Category: Baseball May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Takei

12 Return to Hollywood I CELEBRATED MY TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY in New York City. A quarter century. I had been in Manhattan almost a year now and had little to show ...
( Category: Television Performers May 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Jeremy V. Jones

( Category: Biographies May 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-24 | Author:Marcel Prins [Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis, Marcel]

We had nothing left after the war. I had to wear what we called kleppers, a kind of wooden sandal. Then my uncle took us to a cobbler in the ...
( Category: Education & Reference May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-24 | Author:Susan Casey

Mary Lindley was born in 1726 and raised in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Thomas Lindley, a blacksmith who had moved from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1719. Thomas Lindley was a ...
( Category: Military May 25,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Edgar Mitchell

Space Food Traveling to the Moon took a lot of energy—the energy to launch our rocket, the energy to keep our spacecraft running, and the energy to nourish us. But ...
( Category: Biographies May 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Golding, Vautier [Golding, Vautier]

CHAPTER VI The Upper Shiré and Lake Nyassa ON his return from Linyanté to Teté, Livingstone once more went on board the Asthmatic, and started to meet his new steamer ...
( Category: Historical May 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ginger Wadsworth

General Sir Robert Baden-Powell was a military hero in Britain. He built on his childhood and army experiences to found the Boy Scout organization. Scout Association Trustees Billow and his ...
( Category: Social Activists April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-02-17 | Author:Gary Blackwood

17 We pulled up the carewares, and Mr. Heminges and Mr. Armin rode forward to talk with the apparent leader of the group, a lanky man wearing the leather jerkin ...
( Category: Europe April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Ibtisam Barakat

On the first day of June, Father stood at Dar El-Tifl’s gate holding hands with my brothers. He had picked them up earlier. We all rode back home together, Father ...
( Category: Middle East April 5,2015 )