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Cleveland in the Gilded Age by Dan Ruminski
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Dan Ruminski

As the widow of James Corrigan, Laura Mae inherited a substantial portion of her late husband’s steel company. This picture depicts Laura Mae in Cleveland on a business trip in ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present by Peter Thorold
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Peter Thorold [Thorold, Peter]

. . . a fine stag, covered with foam and stained with blood, entered London by the Regent's Park, and ran the streets to No. 1, I think, Montague Street, ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2018 )
Story of Swahili (Africa in World History) by John M. Mugane
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:John M. Mugane [Mugane, John M.]

8: Writing Swahili in Arabic Characters When used for writing African languages, the Arabic alphabet is referred to in Africa as Ajami from the Arabic word ajam, meaning “strange” or ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 14,2018 )
Chivalry in Medieval England by Nigel Saul
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Nigel Saul [Saul, Nigel]

Chivalry and Honour What effect, if any, then, may chivalry be said to have had on the problem of knightly violence in medieval society? It has been argued that chivalry ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 14,2018 )
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution (Princeton Classics) by R. R. Palmer
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:R. R. Palmer [Palmer, R. R.]

CHAPTER X Dictated Economy TWO ideas gave purpose to the struggles in France during the Revolution, the rights of the individual and the sovereignty of the nation. Revolutionary philosophers saw ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2018 )
David Sedaris Diaries by David Sedaris
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:David Sedaris

No. 31 November 5, 1985 – January 8, 1986 (detail) Envelope fragment with poem, Emily Dickinson, 1885 But it was this apex socialite’s accompanying flood of ephemera—the invitations, announcements, playbills, ...
( Category: United States March 14,2018 )
Colorblind by Tim Wise
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Wise

Americans in highly concentrated, poorer neighborhoods has a direct relationship to inferior health outcomes for blacks, due to the health effects of living in older buildings with bad insulation, poor ...
( Category: History March 14,2018 )
A Thousand Miles of Dreams by Welland Sasha Su-Ling;
epub |eng | | Author:Welland, Sasha Su-Ling;

Shuhua told Hu Shi that she had discussed with Xu Zhimo a plan for him to leave the country to extricate himself from potential scandal. She asked Hu Shi to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
Science among the Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge by Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Miri Shefer-Mossensohn [Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri]

FOUR STATE IN SCIENCE On Empire, Power, Infrastructures, and Finance The previous chapters depicted the world of curious Ottoman scholars—their families, communities, and social institutions—and how these affected the contents ...
( Category: Middle East March 14,2018 )
Sign My Name to Freedom by Betty Reid-Soskin
epub |eng | 2018-01-11 | Author:Betty Reid-Soskin

Monday mornin’ . . . streets are bare . . . seems as how dey don’ want me nowhere since ah went to the Courthouse and sign mah name to ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980 by Aaron Shkuda
epub |eng | 2016-04-06 | Author:Aaron Shkuda [Shkuda, Aaron]

( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
Family Secrets by Catherine Slaney
epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Slaney

CHAPTER 18 THE SEPARATION BEGINS When you re black and white, negotiating racial identity is life going through a revolving door.1 In restrospect it seems quite possible that the move ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 14,2018 )
Palm Springs Modern Living by Schnepf James
epub |eng | 2015-06-23 | Author:Schnepf, James [Schnepf, James]

William Kopelk Landscape architect and interior designer; preservation activist “I first visited Palm Springs in 1997 with Beth and Brent Harris on the occasion of Beth’s birthday, to view the ...
( Category: Architecture March 14,2018 )
1000 Days on the River Kwai by H C Owtram
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:H C Owtram

Chapter 13 The Stage Life became a good deal easier towards the end of 1943. The railway had been completed and the ‘speedo’ tactics of the Japanese had ceased. They ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 14,2018 )
The First American Grand Prix by Tanya A. Bailey
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-03 | Author:Tanya A. Bailey

Willie Haupt (with his mechanic) drove a Chadwick– 6 in the 1908 American Grand Prize but had problems with the bearings and was out of the race on lap 5 ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation March 14,2018 )

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