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Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2013) by Scott W. Allen
epub |eng | 2014-02-07 | Author:Scott W. Allen [Allen, Scott W.]

Nearly all of the Grateful Dead’s album covers and jackets contain images and sounds for the discerning Deadhead ear and eye to unearth. On the cover of their first album, ...
( Category: Rock March 2,2020 )
Theatres of Oakland by Jack Tillmany
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Jack Tillmany [Tillmany, Jack]

Building permits indicate an estimated cost (including signage) at $245,200, however, West Coast Theatres claimed to have sunk $1 million into the construction and decoration of the 2,177-seat Grand Lake ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 2,2020 )
London's Royal Parks by Paul Rabbitts
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Rabbitts

An entrance to Kensington Palace and Gardens during the Regency, attributed to Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia. George II outlived Caroline by twenty-three years and Kensington gradually declined, although the ...
( Category: Architecture March 2,2020 )
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

Chapter 11 THE FAMOUS MR JOSEPH ADDISON1 THE gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St James’s, at either of which ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
epub |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

That was only four months following Ceauşescu’s downfall. The Traian now boasted the latest fixtures and amenities, with remodeled bathrooms and a brand-new lobby in a pseudo-European global style. The ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by Lundstrom John B
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Lundstrom, John B.

15 OCTOBER Ashore Before dawn Vandegrift radioed Ghormley that no landings had indeed occurred at Lunga. However, as dawn broke six transports had anchored “brazen and bold”31 about 15 miles ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 2,2020 )
Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant
epub |eng | | Author:Will Durant

With such a morality you breed men who are men; and to breed men who are men is all that your “social problem” comes to. This does not mean that ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects March 2,2020 )
Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton [Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron]

BOOK V. THE CRISIS. "Questo ha acceso 'i fuoco e la fiamma laquale non la par spotegnere."—"Vita di Cola di Rienzi", lib. i. cap. 29. "He has kindled fire and ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
The Blizzard of 88 by Mary Cable
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Mary Cable [Mary Cable]

“New Yorkers,” wrote The New York Times, “are the best-natured people in the world.” There was much good humor shown through all the blizzard’s discomforts and dangers, and much genuine ...
( Category: Weather March 2,2020 )
Hold the Westwall: The History of Panzer Brigade 105, September 1944 (Stackpole Military History Series) by Timm Haasler
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Timm Haasler [Haasler, Timm]

Development of the Situation in the Münsterbusch—Büsbach Area on 16 September 1944 The attack on Büsbach had hit the 2./Grenadier-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Bataillon 473 especially hard in the area of the ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness by Cecil B. Hartley
epub |eng | 2016-02-18 | Author:Cecil B. Hartley [Hartley, Cecil B.]

CHAPTER X. ETIQUETTE IN CHURCH. It is not, in this book, a question, what you must believe, but how you must act. If your conscience permits you to visit other ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles March 2,2020 )
The Mensch Handbook by Max Gross
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Max Gross

* Naturally, this poses a major danger to schlubs . . . you might allow yourself to get too comfortable at home and become slothful and withdrawn. And not a ...
( Category: Memoirs March 2,2020 )
Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy by David A. Thomas
epub |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:David A. Thomas

ORTEGAL – see BAY OF BISCAY 1805 OSTEND 1918 10 May World War 11914–18 The Ostend element of the combined attack on Zeebrugge and Ostend on 22–23 April 1918 was, ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
Warrior of Peace by Jinananda
epub |eng | | Author:Jinananda [Jinananda]

The word got around, and every day people arrived from all around the region, until there were sixty new śramaṇas in the deer park. The nucleus of the Buddhist sangha ...
( Category: World March 2,2020 )
Baghdad Operators by James Glasse
epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:James Glasse

Chapter Fourteen Home Comforts WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY MEN working so far away from home you are bound to have problems and at times it felt like I was ...
( Category: Middle East March 2,2020 )

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