Historical
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 | 2007-10-18 | Author:Jack Batten

From mid-December 1914 to mid-January 1915, the clinic hid ten French soldiers, survivors of the battle at Charleroi, and twenty British soldiers that fought at Mons. The escaping men were ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Nancy Plain [Plain, Nancy]

32. Bald Eagle, America’s national bird. “I do any thing for money now a days,” he told Lucy.23 In between his stays in the big cities of Scotland and England, ...
( Category: Art March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:A. Kramer

In prison Once in prison, Mandela was stripped and ordered to put on prison uniform – short trousers, rough khaki shirt, canvas jacket, socks, sandals and cloth cap. Racism existed ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:DuMont, Brianna [DuMont, Brianna]

A little help here? But for romantic Shakespeare, that ending simply wouldn’t do. He made Romeo and Juliet a “pair of star-crossed lovers” whose tragic deaths end their parents’ constant ...
( Category: General October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust

To this planet of shadow and despair, An angel came to give help and care. One hand was clutched by her little son, She wanted to mother everyone. Through time ...
( Category: Historical October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yona Zeldis McDonough

In the spring of 1885, Laura agreed to teach one more term of school. Since married women were not allowed to teach, she would have to give up her career ...
( Category: 1800s October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Margaret Frith

Here was an alphabet that was simple to read and worked for different languages, not just French. A person could write in German, English, Italian, and many more! Louis was ...
( Category: 1800s September 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Bishop

5 p.m. The President of the United States came out on the White House porch with Mrs. Lincoln. He studied the sky and buttoned his coat. They were using the ...
( Category: Civil War August 20,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Karen Levine

Hana drew this picture of people getting off a train while she was at Theresienstadt. At the front of the line, a soldier asked people for their name, age and ...
( Category: Multicultural May 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Bonnie Christensen [Christensen, Bonnie]

But what of the copies sent to Rome? No word. I waited and worried. Would the pope be pleased? Six long months passed. Then I received the terrible news. A ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eva Kor

CHAPTER SEVEN At Auschwitz-Birkenau we never knew what tomorrow would bring. Each day brought challenges for us to survive. Miriam was very sick with something besides just the incessant diarrhea ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:E.L. Konigsburg

11 AND SO IT WAS. The world well knows the story of the feud that developed between my son, King Henry, and his Archbishop, Thomas Becket. Shortly after he was ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )