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Don Cherry's Hockey Greats and More by Don Cherry
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Don Cherry

* * * The biggest reason today’s stars are not protected is the instigator rule. It was brought in when Gil Stein was running the NHL in 1992. The rule ...
( Category: Hockey March 14,2020 )
A Cynic Looks at Life by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | | Author:Ambrose Bierce [Bierce, Ambrose]

IMMORTALITY The desire for life everlasting has commonly been affirmed to be universal--at least that is the view taken by those unacquainted with Oriental faiths and with Oriental character. Those ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2020 )
Mother Earth News 1970 by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

We had one major disaster about 4/5 of the way through our journey. It all stemmed from committing a Super no-no: Never pull (paddle) the canoe up to another boat, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2020 )
Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Romain Rolland

DON LORENZO PEROSI The winter that held Italian thought in its cold clasp is over, and great trees that seemed to be asleep are putting out new life in the ...
( Category: Music March 14,2020 )
Reporting the First World War in the Liminal Zone by Sara Prieto
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Prieto

This chapter explores how the Battle of the Somme was represented in the accounts of three officially accredited correspondents: William Beach Thomas’s With the British on the Somme, Basil Clarke’s ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2020 )
He by Robert A. Johnson
epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Robert A. Johnson [Johnson, Robert A.]

The Grail Castle Our story goes on. Parsifal has traveled all day in his heroic quest and at nightfall asks someone if there is a lodge or tavern anywhere nearby ...
( Category: Sexuality March 14,2020 )
Presidential Retreats by Peter Hannaford
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Hannaford

THE SECOND TERM In 1949, Truman secured Senate approval for creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). When, in that same year, the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong succeeded ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2020 )
The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 6 by John C. Calhoun
epub |eng | 2018-03-19 | Author:John C. Calhoun [Calhoun, John C.]

I answer—no; neither after, nor before admission. If the right exist at all, it must be either a natural or acquired right. It cannot be the former; because all such ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 14,2020 )
Deception Game by Unknown
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Unknown

Chapter 28 It took about ten minutes for Drake to consider everything he’d heard and decide on a course of action. Desperate and dangerous it might have been, but it ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions March 14,2020 )
Passages from the English Notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

BATTLE ABBEY. Bennoch and I recommenced our travels, and, changing from one railway to another, reached Tunbridge Wells at nine or ten in the evening. The next day was spent ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2020 )
Hound Dog by Unknown
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Unknown

Chapter 17 I don’t recognise the number, but I answer it anyway. ‘Elvis,’ the voice says, ‘it’s Em.’ ‘Oh, hi,’ I say, my throat full of sleep. ‘Elvis, something terrible’s ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 14,2020 )
Complete Korean (Learn Korean with Teach Yourself) by Author
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Author

( Category: Drawing March 14,2020 )
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2012-06-02 | Author:Daniel Defoe

I slept none that night; the farther I was from the occasion of my fright, the greater my apprehensions were, which is something contrary to the nature of such things, ...
( Category: Classics March 14,2020 )
The Mob and Me by John Partington Arlene Violet
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:John Partington, Arlene Violet

10 #xa0; RUNNING UP STOCKS Back in the Wild West, when an old-time outlaw was asked why he robbed banks, he replied: “That’s where the money is.” The mob quickly ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
Visions Of Technology by Richard Rhodes
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

Percentage of words consumed by medium, 1960–1980 (selected). FIST FIGHTS AND FEMALES ERNST ALEXANDERSON, 1960 A pioneer of television research at General Electric in the 1930s wrote this letter to ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation March 14,2020 )

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