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The Florentines by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:Paul Strathern

* * * Over the decades following Cosimo de’ Medici’s return from exile, he would consolidate his position in Florence to the point where Pope Pius II would write of ...
( Category: Biographies July 7,2021 )
High Tension by John A. Riggs
epub |eng | 2020-08-30 | Author:John A. Riggs [Riggs, John A.]

Howard Hopson, the “crown prince of corporate jazz,” explains the structure of his holding company pyramid to Senators Hugo Black and Lewis Schwellenback. (Library of Congress.) With the House conferees ...
( Category: Biographies July 7,2021 )
Air Combat 1945 by Donald Nijboer
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Nijboer

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the ultimate heavy bomber of World War II. Beginning in the spring of 1944, the B-29 was bombing targets in China and the Pacific. In ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation July 7,2021 )
Blue Ghost Memoirs by Otto C. Romanelli
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Otto C. Romanelli

Sample log entry for one four-hour watch. As an OOD I had assisted the Navigator and Captain in this manner frequently and gained the confidence of the Captain because of ...
( Category: Biographies July 6,2021 )
Republic, Not a Democracy by Adam Brandon
epub |eng | 2021-07-14 | Author:Adam Brandon

Congress is supposed to pass 12 appropriations bills each year to fund the federal government before the end of fiscal year, which ends on September 30. The last time Congress ...
( Category: History July 6,2021 )
Great Tales From British History by Robert Gambles
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Robert Gambles

21 The Wars of the Roses: Origin of the Name Richard Plantagenet (later Duke of York): Let him that is a true-born gentleman And stands upon the honour of his ...
( Category: Historical Biographies July 6,2021 )
Time in Maps by Caroline Winterer
epub |eng | 2020-11-20 | Author:Caroline Winterer [Winterer, Caroline]

Fig. 5.8 Detail from the map of Africa in Vincenzo Coronelli’s Atlante veneto (1690–1701). Courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, https://purl.stanford.edu/gv420dv9515. On the ...
( Category: American History July 6,2021 )
Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn
epub |eng | 2021-06-08 | Author:Elinor Cleghorn [Cleghorn, Elinor]

13 DUTIFUL AND DISCIPLINED In 1933, in a small terraced house in County Durham, a thirty-two-year-old woman had just given birth to her seventh child. Like most of the women ...
( Category: Medical Books July 6,2021 )
The Battle of Stonington by James De Kay
epub |eng | | Author:James De Kay [ De Kay, James Tertius]

Two of Fulton’s suggestions for employing his torpedoes. Fig. 1 shows a torpedo attached to a harpoon. In Fig. 2, two floating torpedoes (EE) attached by a line (CD) are ...
( Category: American History July 6,2021 )
Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here by Joseph Heller
azw |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Joseph Heller [Heller, Joseph]

( Category: American History July 6,2021 )
Survivors by Rebecca Clifford
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rebecca Clifford [Clifford, Rebecca]

12. Alice Goldberger, who cared for the youngest Theresienstadt survivors first at Windermere, and then at a dedicated care home, Weir Courtney, in Lingfield, Surrey. They were later joined by ...
( Category: Medical Books July 6,2021 )
The Rise And Fall Of Apartheid by Welsh David
epub |eng | 2009-12-30 | Author:Welsh, David

1965 1981 1965 1981 Clerical 83.10% 65.50% 9.10% 17.80% Sales 72.70% 59.60% 15.20% 25.00% Artisan 85.50% 73.10% 0.40% 5.90% Foremen and supervisors 76.70% 56.90% 13.50% 26.50% Another factor conducive to ...
( Category: Middle East History July 6,2021 )
To Poison a Nation by Andrew Baker
epub |eng | 2021-07-15 | Author:Andrew Baker

7 Crucible SHORTLY BEFORE THREE O’CLOCK ON FRIDAY AFTERnoon, July 27, 1900, an intriguing memo reached the Second Precinct stationhouse on the corner of Terpsichore and Chippewa Streets, where Sergeant ...
( Category: European History July 5,2021 )
The Roma: The History of the Romani People and the Controversial Persecutions of Them across Europe by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:Charles River Editors

Owing to the enforcement of the highly disturbing and oppressive anti-Gypsy laws in Germany, the Romani had no choice but to load up their wagons and forge onward to the ...
( Category: History of Civilization & Culture July 5,2021 )
City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle by Bill Minutaglio
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Bill Minutaglio [Minutaglio, Bill]

Curtis Trahan, the respected and well-liked World War II hero and mayor, suddenly found himself tested in ways he’d never imagined. Courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library. Father ...
( Category: American History July 5,2021 )

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