American History
epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Melvin R. Gilmore [Gilmore, Melvin R.]

LATHYRUS ORNATUS Nutt. Wild Sweet Pea. Hinbthisi-tanga (Omaha-Ponca), large-seeded hinbthi bean (si, seed; tanga, large). My informants could describe it and tell in what locality it is to be found. ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Mark J. Camp

These views taken in 1918 (above) and 1966 (below) show the impressive passenger depot at Findlay. The building probably dates to 1883 when it served as the southern terminus of ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Fremont-Barnes

Boarding action led by a lieutenant of HMS Surprise, retaking HMS Hermione off Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in October 1799, two years after the crew had mutinied and handed the ship ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Mark J. Camp

Around 1900, the N&W built a connector from Idlewild north to the B&OSW at Bond Hill and the CH&D at Ivorydale. This view shows the Bond Hill passenger depot nearing ...
( Category: Native American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Mark J. Camp

New Dover, originally Dover, also had a frame combination depot. Its passenger agency was closed in 1929. The Big Four had used a gasoline-powered motorcar for passengers between Delaware and ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Gregory Fremont-Barnes [Fremont-Barnes, Gregory]

B Company’s position at first light: highly vulnerable and exposed. This platoon possessed no training in counter-attacking and he had no support from artillery; in any event the guns were ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:James T. Campbell

LIKE SHIPS AT SEA, Du Bois and Schuyler passed within hailing distance of one another in the 1920s and early 1930s and then proceeded on their way, bound for the ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:George S. McGovern

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-18 | Author:Charles Glass

TWENTY-THREE The Army is organized throughout for one single purpose—fighting. Psychology for the Fighting Man, p. 325 BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1944, the U.S. military in the European Theater ...
( Category: American History August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Unknown

FIG. 3. George L. Stearns. (Boyd B. Stutler Collection, West Virginia State Archives) Using various connections to important men, Douglass managed to get an audience with Secretary of War Stanton ...
( Category: American History August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Arthur George

their association with precious stones; that they are lovely to behold their ability to confer, save, and resurrect life, and to confer immortality yearned for by humans the idea that ...
( Category: American History August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Gilmore [Gilmore, John]

11 The Los Angeles County morgue, where the questionable deaths and murder victims were delivered pending identification or burial, was cramped, dingy, and had leaking water pipes. Glass panels in ...
( Category: Memoirs August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Antony Wild [Wild, Antony]

Napoleon’s Sèvres coffee service, with pictures of Egypt by Vivant Denon. It was much commented upon by English visitors to Longwood, his house on St Helena. Napoleon had evidently drunk ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Catherine Gildiner [Gildiner, Catherine]

We got out the map and looked at it while we ate lunch. On the way down we had followed the AAA TripTik, which showed only the road you were ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Ed Gilbert

CAMPAIGN – THE CREEK WAR The American strategy was to launch offensives into the Creek territories from four directions. The plan foundered on poor planning and logistics, and only Jackson’s ...
( Category: American History August 14,2020 )