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epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Spike Walker

CHAPTER 6 When Lt. Bill Adickes walked down the short distance from his office and stepped into the Operations Center in the remote Coast Guard outpost in Sitka, Alaska, things ...
( Category: State & Local January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Charles Pellegrino [Pellegrino, Charles]

SEPTEMBER 19, 2001 RUSSIAN RESEARCH VESSEL KELDYSH 120 MILES FROM THE TITANIC We received a drawing by fax from my daughter Amber's second-grade class at P.S. 26 in Queens. At ...
( Category: History December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Hastings, David [Hastings, David]

Notes 1 This account is drawn from Coughtrey’s diary, his medical journal, the transcript of evidence he took against Vesey on 1 Oct. 1873, his report on the voyage, Vesey’s ...
( Category: History November 16,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-14 | Author:Robert Gardiner

As soon as France actively entered the war in 1778, the Navy began building 32s again, emphasising that the 12pdr frigate was primarily intended for fleet and oceanic trade war ...
( Category: History September 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Walter Lord

CHAPTER XIII “The Electric Spark” THE ROCKETS AND LIGHTS to the southeast signaled the entrance of a brand-new character on the stage—a man often overlooked in recent accounts of the ...
( Category: History August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-03 | Author:Powers, Dennis M. [Powers, Dennis M.]

With the state official looking on and entirely unaware that a carronade had already been recovered, the treasure hunter raised a second one. The piece was still packed with hemp ...
( Category: History July 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:John Fry

While at sea the law lays its heavy hand upon him. By night and by day, almost without interruption, he is subject to the severest discipline. Any disobedience of a ...
( Category: History June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

The Battle of Charleston. The Keokuk upper left, the Patupsco right, and the Weehawken center (Clive Cussler) The sinking of the Keokuk after she was struck by ninety-two Confederate shells ...
( Category: History May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Christopher Ward [Ward, Christopher]

HUME, ANDREW, born Dumfries 7th May 1864. Violinist, bassoonist, banjo player and composer. Pupil of M Sainton. Established in his native city as professor of the above instruments and teacher ...
( Category: Great Britain April 23,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

One of four new screw sloops fresh out of the shipyards of Boston, Housatonic mounted thirteen guns, one of them a big rifled hundred-pounder. She displaced 1,240 tons and measured ...
( Category: History March 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

The Battle of Charleston. The Keokuk upper left, the Patupsco right, and the Weehawken center (Clive Cussler) The sinking of the Keokuk after she was struck by ninety-two Confederate shells ...
( Category: History March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Dayle Furlong

In the morning she woke up and ran down the hallway to check on the children. Their beds were empty. “They stayed the night at Wanda’s, remember?” Jack said. “I ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Roger Litwiller

Your airgraph letter arrived on board today. I note that the electric washing machine has been forwarded to Halifax. The procuring of this machine was indeed a praiseworthy achievement on ...
( Category: 20th Century March 21,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

IN LONDON, a mosaic of information had by now accumulated in Blinker Hall’s intelligence division and in Room 40 that showed that only one submarine was in the waters off ...
( Category: History March 13,2015 )