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The great American steamboat race: the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the climax of an era by Benton Rain Patterson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-13 | Author:Benton Rain Patterson

Stairway leading up from a typical steamboat’s boiler deck, the deck above its main deck, to the hurricane deck, or promenade deck. At right in this photograph is the purser’s, ...
( Category: Transportation March 25,2014 )
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The Civil War a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
mobi |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season by Peter Nichols
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Peter Nichols

Eleven The Ships and the Men William Fish Williams’s childhood homes, the ships Florida, Hibernia, and Monticello, were more alike than any three houses in a small suburban neighborhood. The ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death by Mark Essig
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Essig

CHAPTER 15 The Unmasking of Harold Brown ON AUGUST 25, just a few weeks after the hearings ended, the New York Sun published stunning revelations regarding Edison's interest in the ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
Stealing the General by Russell S. Bonds
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Russell S. Bonds

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Heaven or Cincinnati Atlanta Boys, tell them at home, if any of you escape, that I died for my country and did not regret it. —Sergeant Major Marion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:George C. Daughan

ON DECEMBER 30, 1813, His Majesty’s packet Bramble, under Lieutenant Pogson, arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from Plymouth, England, with the momentous news: Napoleon had suffered a near fatal blow at ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 25,2014 )
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology by Alexis Madrigal
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Zinn Reader by Zinn Howard
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 by Peter J. Westwick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter J. Westwick

Reengineering JPL • 233 Figure 15.1. The fi ve pillars of quality in Total Quality Management. Source: JPL 165, 2/18. tems engineering that had supported JPL for thirty years. Project ...
( Category: Propulsion Technology March 25,2014 )
Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline by Jim Rasenberger
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-18 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

A few weeks after the McNamaras’ arrest, a tall, stooped, unkempt figure walked into their prison cells and introduced himself. The man did not look much like a beacon of ...
( Category: Buildings March 25,2014 )
American Gun: A History of the U.S. In Ten Firearms by Chris Kyle & William Doyle
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Chris Kyle & William Doyle

The M1911 first saw combat in 1916 when General Pershing drove into Mexico in a fruitless search for rebel leader Pancho Villa, whose troops had looted and burned the town ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )

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