Home > History
History
The Stories of Jane Gardam by Jane Gardam
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Jane Gardam [Gardam, Jane]

The exams came and went as exams do and Pratt felt lightheaded and light-hearted. He came out of the last one with Jackson and said, ‘Whee—let’s go and look at ...
( Category: Short Stories August 5,2020 )
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

Ernie Pyle IT’S A HARD THING to write about a dead man who doesn’t seem dead to you. Ernie Pyle didn’t want to go back to the war. When he ...
( Category: Authors August 5,2020 )
Naked in Da Nang by Mike Jackson
epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Mike Jackson

My best pal Joe (front) and I ham it up in one of those cheesy little photo booths that seemed to be everywhere in the 1950s and 60s. My parents, ...
( Category: Vietnam War August 5,2020 )
Selected by Extraterrestrials Volume 2: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, Think Tanks and Nordic secretaries by William Tompkins
epub |eng | 2020-04-30 | Author:William Tompkins [Tompkins, William]

Chapter 7 REMOTE VIEWING AT TRW The Theory Center was a separate operation that includes Remote Viewing (RV) and was conducted in research labs that I was privileged to attend. ...
( Category: UFOs August 5,2020 )
Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream by Stanley A. Goldman
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley A. Goldman [Goldman, Stanley A.]

Masur’s Role in the Sending of Wallenberg On April 18, 1944, a year and a day before his own treacherous journey to meet Himmler, Masur sent a letter to Stockholm’s ...
( Category: Women in History August 5,2020 )
The Writing on the Wall by Ben Passikoff
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Ben Passikoff

The company introduced the concept of “take out” food with its slogan, “Less work for mother.” Although it closed its doors in 1991, the building still remains on 104th and ...
( Category: Cities August 5,2020 )
Con Quest! by Sam Maggs
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Maggs

14 Alex There was something up with Cat. Alex wasn’t great with people, but his sister was the one exception to that rule. He basically spent twenty-four hours a day ...
( Category: Siblings August 5,2020 )
The Devil's Diary by Robert K. Wittman
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Wittman

An assault gun with the SS Division Totenkopf—the “Death’s Head” Division—speeds through the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-136-0882-12/Albert Cursian) ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals August 5,2020 )
The Human Age by Diane Ackerman
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Natural History August 5,2020 )
Dynasty by Peter Golenbock
epub |eng | 2013-12-20 | Author:Peter Golenbock

It was May, hot and muggy in Oklahoma City, when I arrived at Tom Sturdivant's home, which, I was fascinated to find, was fully equipped with a combination bomb-tornado shelter. ...
( Category: Baseball August 5,2020 )
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough by Adhikari Mohamed;
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Adhikari, Mohamed;

Race, Identity, and Realism in Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night and Other Stories A Walk in the Night opens with the protagonist, a young Coloured man named ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 5,2020 )
Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan by Kenji Hasegawa
epub |eng | | Author:Kenji Hasegawa

A: The same food as the poor farmers of this village. 7 parts wheat, 3 parts rice, miso, leaks, and salt. Q: What do you do up here? A: Stupid ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration August 5,2020 )
DK Eyewitness Lisbon by Dk Eyewitness
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:Dk Eyewitness [Eyewitness, Dk]

Commissioned by Manuel I, the tower was built as a fortress in 1514–20, and soon became a symbol of Portugal’s great era of expansion. The real beauty of this Manueline ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums August 5,2020 )
Polarshift: China, India and the Rise and Fall of the West by Matt Buttsworth
mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Matt Buttsworth

Furthermore, when one looks at President Obama’s initiative, with all its talk of Charter Schools and improving the quality of education, there is not a single mention of helping truly ...
( Category: World August 5,2020 )
Cabal by Mark Goodwin
epub |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Mark Goodwin [Goodwin, Mark]

*** It was close to midnight when Josh arrived in Williamsburg, Kentucky where Emilio and Nicole had stopped. They’d parked in the empty parking lot of a fast-food restaurant, just ...
( Category: Biographies August 5,2020 )

First Prev [1936] [1937] [1938] [1939] 1940 [1941] [1942] [1943] [1944] [1945] [1946] Next Last