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August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing by Oliver Willard M
epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Oliver, Willard M. [Oliver, Willard M.]

While Vollmer believed things were progressing nicely, he faced a number of issues in the first few months on the job. On the evening of August 21, 1923, several police ...
( Category: Criminal Law March 18,2020 )
History of San Diego, 1542-1908 by William Ellsworth Smythe
epub |eng | 2017-07-06 | Author:William Ellsworth Smythe [Smythe, William Ellsworth]

PART THREE: The Horton Period Chapter 1: The Founder of the Modern City On the 15th of April, 1867, something happened which radically changed the course of San Diego history. ...
( Category: State & Local March 18,2020 )
Time in Roman Religion by Forsythe Gary;
epub |eng | 2012-03-17 | Author:Forsythe, Gary;

The first two and a half lines of this text seem to have contained the names of a priest and priestess of Magna Mater. The three descending Roman numerals in ...
( Category: World March 18,2020 )
World War Two, A Very Peculiar History by Jim Pipe
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Jim Pipe

Kilroy was here During World War Two a curious cartoon cropped up all over the world at truck stops, restaurants and military barracks. Accompanied by the phrase ‘Kilroy was here’, ...
( Category: World War II March 18,2020 )
Radical Scotland by Kenny MacAskill;
epub |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Kenny MacAskill;

As a result of the conflict many rebels from the north of Ireland sought sanctuary in Scotland. Some took part in the rebellion itself but many more fled the sectarian ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Turgenev

VII .................. THE NEXT DAY WAS SUNDAY, and Natalya got up late. The day before she had been very silent all day; she was secretly ashamed of her tears, and ...
( Category: Russian March 18,2020 )
A Short History of the Ottoman Empire by Charles Horne
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Horne

INTERNAL DECAY AND ITS TEMPORARY ARREST UNDER MURAD IV ~ [AUTHORITIES: AS BEFORE. ALSO STIRLING-MAXWELL, “Lon John of Austria”; Dyer, “History of Europe”; Menzies, “ Turkey Old and New."] The ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Generals South, Generals North by Alan Axelrod
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Axelrod

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Scott, Lincoln, and McClellan himself had every reason to believe that he would perform admirably. Gallant in battle, a brilliant West Point graduate who had seen European warfighting ...
( Category: Civil War March 18,2020 )
Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 by Francesco Finocchiaro
epub |eng | | Author:Francesco Finocchiaro

9See the remarks above, Chapter III note 16. 10 Exemple de Surréalism was the title of an essay Goll published in the magazine Surréalism in October 1924 (Goll 1924). 11On ...
( Category: Music March 18,2020 )
The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 by James E. Casto
epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:James E. Casto

Founded by abolitionist Eli Thayer in 1857 and a Union stronghold during the Civil War, the village of Ceredo is located on the Ohio River just west of Huntington and ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 18,2020 )
Warsaw 1920 by Adam Zamoyski
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Zamoyski

The Battle for Warsaw, 14 August Russian calculations of Tukhachevsky’s forces at the beginning of the battle for Warsaw vary between totals of 101,269 and 132,189 front-line combatants; according to ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Meridian Hill by Stephen R. McKevitt
epub |eng | 2018-12-19 | Author:Stephen R. McKevitt

R OCK C REEK Because the area that would become Washington, D.C., was situated just below the first waterfall that was encountered by exploration ships coming up the Potomac, the ...
( Category: Americas March 18,2020 )
The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

* * * #xa0; DEATH AND THE CHILD I The peasants who were streaming down the mountain trail had in their sharp terror evidently lost their ability to count. The ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
Picturing India by McAleer John
epub |eng | 2018-03-17 | Author:McAleer, John

Figure 4.2 Mughal artist, Shah Jahan in his Durbar, c. 1650 (Add. Or. 3853) Figure 4.3 Mughal artist, Nadir Shah, King of Persia, c. 1740 (F44) EUROPEAN ARTISTS AND INDIAN ...
( Category: Great Britain March 18,2020 )
Brewed in the North by Matthew J. Bellamy
epub |eng | 2019-03-17 | Author:Matthew J. Bellamy

Fast Follower While CBL was the first Canadian brewer to go national, the innovative corporation soon had competition on the national scene. At Labatt, there was a sense that it ...
( Category: Biography & History March 18,2020 )

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