History
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Stephen Turnbull

Chapter 10 The Enduring Ninja During the early twentieth century an alternative view of ninjutsu began to emerge alongside the undercover techniques of the military manuals and the magic of ...
( Category: Asia August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Don Brown

( Category: Biographies August 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-08 | Author:Bonnie Bader

In newspaper accounts of the battle, Robert was blamed unfairly. People called him “Granny Lee.” They said he was too afraid to attack. It was a hard time for Robert. ...
( Category: History August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Abraham and Mary Todd Abraham met Mary Todd at a dance. She was visiting her sisters in Springfield. Mary was well educated, lively, and pretty. She’d studied French, dancing, music, ...
( Category: Biographies August 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Joan Holub [Holub, Joan]

When Johnny told stories, his gray eyes sparkled. He knew how to use his voice to build a story to a thrilling climax or to make people laugh. One thing ...
( Category: History August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tracey Turner [Turner, Tracey]

LEONIDAS THE HERO Many Persian warriors were killed at Thermopylae. Xerxes was so angry about this that he had Leonidas’s head cut off and his body crucified. This was unusual, ...
( Category: History August 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Sarah Elder Hale

Former slaves, freed by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, were escorted by Union troops to contraband camps. Thirst for Knowledge But most black children did manage to spend at least part of ...
( Category: Americas July 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Sterling North [North, Sterling]

8 Jack of All Trades The store winked out. A. LINCOLN During the next five years, Lincoln was a storekeeper, postmaster, surveyor, state assemblyman, and newly licensed lawyer. In all ...
( Category: Biographies July 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Judith Bloom Fradin [Fradin, Judy and Dennis]

This early 1860s photo of slave quarters on a sugarcane plantation was taken in Houma, Louisiana, not far from where Solomon supervised 75 cane cutters. (Illustration Credits 1.21) At this ...
( Category: History July 28,2018 )
epub |deu | | Author:Ludmilla Bollow

Bad things happen on the farm, too. One afternoon, Uncle Steven doesn’t eat lunch with us because he is still in the fields trying to finish his work before the ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Michaela DePrince,Elaine Deprince [DePrince, Michaela]

Mia loved dancing in The Nutcracker that year. Mama and Papa took Mariel and me to see the show several times, and each time I felt just as excited and ...
( Category: Art, Music & Photography July 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Phillip Hoose

There are more statues of Sacagawea today than of any female in U.S. history, although no one knows what she really looked like. This early-nineteenth-century magazine illustration shows one artist’s ...
( Category: Biographies July 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Brendan Powell Smith

And so the Parisian mobs broke into the shops of gunsmiths, taking muskets, pistols, sabers, and knives. They first set upon the detested ring of customs posts that encircled the ...
( Category: History July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Tod Olson [Olson, Tod]

Haise moves through the tunnel between the command module and the lunar module. At Mission Control, the night had passed with no sleep for anyone. Ashtrays served as paperweights for ...
( Category: History July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Tod Olson [Olson, Tod]

CHAPTER 10 DESPAIR They started with an ounce of water on the morning of the ninth day. Rickenbacker poured each ration carefully into one of the remaining Very cartridges and ...
( Category: History July 18,2018 )