American History
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Julian Sancton [Sancton, Julian]

* * * — On the clear and frigid evening of June 3, Cook left the ship with his camera and tripod on his shoulder and walked about a hundred ...
( Category: American History May 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:James Hoare [Hoare, James]

DRINKING Koreans like drinking, and there is little social stigma attached to getting drunk, at least as far as men are concerned. Women may find that their Korean counterparts, especially ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury

* * * In March 1775, two months before Richard Henderson accepted his symbolic slice of Kentucky soil, Virginia’s governor, Lord Dunmore, dispatched an emissary to the Cherokee towns to ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-30 | Author:Green, Oliver; [Green, Oliver;]

OPENINGS Halifax, 1898. Ayr, 1901. Lincoln, 1905. Preston, 1904. Exeter, 1906. Pudsey, 1908. Ripley, 1914. Keighley, 1904. Morley, 1911. GREETINGS Christmas greetings from Taunton, Coventry and Wolverhampton, and a Tram ...
( Category: American History May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-28 | Author:John Hopkins [Hopkins, John]

Hotel Bolivar, Lima. Expensive, but after a series of Amazonian flea-bags I needed a bit of luxury and comfort. Memories of Lima Dating from my first jaunt with college friends ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Peck

9 Reckoning The astonishingly swift defeat of Norway, France, and the Low Countries led many in Europe and the Americas to assume that Germany must have been aided by vast ...
( Category: American History May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nathaniel Deutsch & Michael Casper

CHAPTER SEVEN A Fruit Tree Grows in Brooklyn IN A TREE GROWS in Brooklyn, Betty Smith’s classic 1943 novel of poverty and childhood resilience set in Williamsburg, a central motif ...
( Category: American History May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Brian Holden Reid & John Keegan [Brian Holden Reid & John Keegan]

Everything from the start had promised a different outcome. Hooker had outnumbered Lee two to one; Lee had several times weakened himself by dividing his army in the face of ...
( Category: American History May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-02 | Author:Stephen Walker [Walker, Stephen]

BUT BOTH MEN still had to be told. The day after the state commission meeting, Kamanin summoned Gagarin and Titov to his office. Nelyubov was not invited. As soon as ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-23 | Author:Andrea Lee [Lee, Andrea]

* * * Next day, I keep to myself, as one is entitled to do in a hotel that has a library. When Simon calls from Hunan, before breakfast, I ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-03 | Author:James Rebanks [Rebanks, James]

~ My father wasn’t much of a churchgoer, but he believed in something similar. He thought that things should have limits and constraints. He believed in moderation and balance. And ...
( Category: American History May 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Akhil Reed Amar [REED AMAR, AKHIL]

WASHINGTON BADE FAREWELL IN 1796, and in the ensuing election, Americans pushed the two most notable remaining icons of 1776, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, in that order, into the ...
( Category: American History May 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:David Rhodes [Rhodes, David]

“Say, sorry to bother you, but could you tell me where Bettle Street is?” “Three blocks ahead. It’s a one-way.” “Thanks.” The number Franklin had given him was the address ...
( Category: American History May 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-23 | Author:Norman Desmarais [Desmarais, Norman]

Head Quarters, Peekskill 6th Augt. 1780 Sir, Col. Kosciusko having permission to join the southern army—Major Villefranche has directions to repair to West Point and take upon him the superintendence ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 5,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

The mobster repays the favor, showing his friendship by always wearing the sapphire pinkie ring given to him by Frank Sinatra. When the singer films the movie Some Came Running ...
( Category: American History May 4,2021 )