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When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan
epub |eng | 2006-06-01 | Author:Justin Kaplan

SIX After the Ball Was Over i. DURING THE WINTER OF 1896–1897 the United States was mired in a period of economic distress and widespread unemployment that had begun with ...
( Category: Americas October 31,2017 )
Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2018 Edition by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Princeton Review

25. B The Pb half-cell has a greater reduction potential than the Cr half-cell. Pb2+ will be able to take electrons from the Cr(s) solution and reduce to become Pb(s). ...
( Category: Advanced Placement October 31,2017 )
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger

Bayou Bienvenue Cochrane gave the order to move. The first of General Keane’s force embarked on December 22. The advance guard would be a light brigade consisting of the Fourth ...
( Category: Americas October 31,2017 )
The Ghost by Jefferson Morley
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Jefferson Morley [Morley, Jefferson]

* * * “I REMEMBERED A LONG drive out into the desert in his Ford Falcon,” wrote John Hadden, Jr., in a memoir about growing up in a CIA family. ...
( Category: Historical October 31,2017 )
Blood Brothers by Deanne Stillman
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Deanne Stillman

On the day of his arrival, the Buffalo Courier reported that Sitting Bull waited in his carriage in the afternoon sun “with characteristic Indian patience,” watching the day’s acts. He ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 31,2017 )
The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II by Edward Russell
mobi |eng | 2008-11-07 | Author:Edward Russell

When we finally scrambled over the embankment a picture of horror was revealed to us. A pit, about seven to eight metres long and perhaps four metres wide had been ...
( Category: Military October 31,2017 )
With the Help of God and a Few Marines": The Battles of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood by Albertus W. Catlin
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Albertus W. Catlin [Catlin, Albertus W.]

( Category: Military October 31,2017 )
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:James D. Hornfischer [James D. Hornfischer]

CHAPTER 40 Sinuous and halting, the emergent railway crept up the mountain, moving in contractions and dilations like a vast segmented worm. Alive with the movements of thousands of feet ...
( Category: Military October 30,2017 )
Chain of Command by Seymour M. Hersh
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Seymour M. Hersh [Hersh, Seymour M.]

3. Richard Perle Goes to Lunch At the peak of his deal-making activities, in the 1970s, the Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 30,2017 )
The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
epub |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch [MacCulloch, Diarmaid]

9 The South: Catholic Heartlands By the 1570s southern Europe was secured for the old Western Church, from the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal to the Venetian towns and ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership October 30,2017 )
Rebel in the Ranks by Brad S. Gregory
epub |eng | 2017-08-03 | Author:Brad S. Gregory

Calvin, Geneva, and Reformed Protestantism So great is John Calvin’s influence on Reformed Protestantism that it is sometimes simply called “Calvinism.” No reformer other than Luther makes such a major ...
( Category: Europe October 30,2017 )
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History by Bill Leonard
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Bill Leonard

Simple/Complex Faith Once the Christians realized that their witness was global, things got considerably more complicated. Proclaiming the possibility of salvation in this world and the next is truly “good ...
( Category: History October 30,2017 )
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Lucy Bird
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-22 | Author:Isabella Lucy Bird

LETTER XXIII "A Plague of Immoderate Rain"—A Confidential Servant—Ito's Diary- -Ito's Excellences—Ito's Faults—Prophecy of the Future of Japan— Curious Queries—Superfine English—Economical Travelling—The Japanese Pack-horse again. KUBOTA, July 24. I am ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 30,2017 )
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-14 | Author:Rebecca West

Belgrade VIII What sequel to this story would not be an anticlimax? There are heights which the corporate life has never surpassed and which it attains only at rare intervals. ...
( Category: Europe October 30,2017 )
Dangerous Waters by John Burnett
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-29 | Author:John Burnett

12 Where Are the Americans? Papa Zulu Four A two-tiered rack of rifles stands sentinel and ready for instant use within inches of the door to the deck outside; it ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 30,2017 )

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