American History
epub |eng | | Author:John Miller

CHAPTER TEN King and Parliament (February to November 1685) Three days after Charles died, James announced his intention to summon a Parliament. He also announced that he would continue to ...
( Category: Engineering August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hollister, C. Warren,Frost, Amanda Clark.

Chapter 7 THE LAST BATTLES In various ways the calamity of the White Ship cast its shadow into the future. Much of Henry I's political activity during the years that ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Richard Conniff

9 Living Large The Habitats of the Rich If they could see me now, My little dusty group, Traipsing ‘round this Million-dollar chicken coop! —DOROTHY FIELDS, “If My Friends Could ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clifford D. Conner

THE “PRINT REVOLUTION” AND MODERN SCIENCE WITH THE ADVENT of printing, “the world of learning, hitherto the domain of a tiny privileged elite, was suddenly made much more accessible to ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Jeff Burbank [Burbank, Jeff]

Schreck contended that he had countered the board's statement that the Universal game was deceptive. Slot players were unable to predict their chances of winning by looking at the reel ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:John Connor

MAP 6.2 The ‘Black Line’, 1830 SOURCE British Parliamentary Papers, Colonies, Australia, Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1968-70, 4. The daily ration for a man on the ‘Black Line’ was ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Martha Hodes

To conjure Grand Cayman Island when Eunice lived there, depart George Town, where the airplanes land and the cruise ships dock, where boutiques and dive shops crowd the capital’s small ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Jesse Jarnow [JARNOW, JESSE]

Members of the Weavers didn’t often turn up at the Sunday jam sessions in Washington Square Park, but their presence was undeniable. For a few years when they lived nearby, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Stephen Brennan

“Stripped of her sails, she forges ahead to her chosen berth . . .” For a ship with her sails furled on her squared yards, and reflected from truck to ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

MEN OF TRUE MERIT In their manifesto to the Puerto Rican people, Figueroa, Marín, and Vélez Alvarado also explained why they disagreed with Puerto Ricans who favored annexation to the ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stacie Taranto

Notes 1. Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 3. 2. McRae, Mothers of Massive Resistance, ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Charles River Editors

Red and his family circa 1957 Skelton dressed up as San Fernando Red alongside Kay Starr and Jackie Coogan Skelton as Willie Lump Lump on The Red Skelton Show With ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Howard Schultz [Schultz, Howard]

As the sun set behind the mountain on which most of the insurgents had perched, the firing ebbed. The Talibs, who lacked night-vision goggles, couldn’t spot their prey in the ...
( Category: American History August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Anne Curry [Curry, Anne]

Callous as this act appears to be (other sources suggest prisoners were killed by weapons too), Henry had been placed in a vulnerable position. To protect his own men, he ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Debbie Cenziper & Jim Obergefell [Cenziper, Debbie]

14 TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM MIDNIGHT AL LOVED to sue people. It was the surest way to make the law work for the weak, the most satisfying kind of advocacy. On ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies August 8,2020 )