Americas
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Cary Carson

Fig. 11.16. Carter’s Grove, 1751–55, James City County, Virginia. In the early 1750s, at Carter’s Grove, Nathaniel Burwell’s plantation near Williamsburg, bricklayer David Minitree embellished the two-story brickwork with delicately ...
( Category: Americas October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:John F. Kasson

MASCULINE VERSUS FEMININE MAGIC Houdini attempted several more metamorphoses in his career. Though he remained a man of extraordinary physical energy and endurance, the strain of escapes on a now ...
( Category: Americas October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-12 | Author:Rick James

Captain Stuart Stone (left) , pictured here with First Officer Jim Donohue (right), was already a deep-sea mariner freighting out of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island’s west coast when he ...
( Category: World October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-14 | Author:Laura Smith Borrman

La Mar pisco punch, 2017. Brandon Borrman. The potency of the original formulation is credited with an ingredient not permissible in legal products today: coca leaves. McDonnell explains his findings: ...
( Category: Americas October 15,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Michael Savage

Fake news kills. That’s the lesson of out-of-control New York newspapers that revved up mass hysteria based on false tales of atrocities within Cuba and created the Spanish-American War. The ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joanne B. Freeman

EPILOGUE “I WITNESSED IT ALL” French’s life during the secession crisis echoed the state of the nation. For months, his diary entries were divided between his fears for the Union ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John F. Winkler

Many Indians preferred war clubs to tomahawks as weapons in close combat. The clubs often had wooden spikes or were studded with pieces of metal. (Jeff Dearth Collection) Their food, ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:Saul Austerlitz [Saul Austerlitz]

Part Three CARRYING ON 9. Last Chopper Out The last notes of “Street Fighting Man” drifted out from the stage, over the fans still packed in like sardines, over the ...
( Category: Americas October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-19 | Author:Stewart M. Green [Green, Stewart M.]

A large rattlesnake petroglyph uncoils on a boulder below Molen Reef at San Rafael Swell in Utah. Do Not Physically Enhance Rock Art Besides the look-but-do-not-touch rule, it is important ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Ethan Brown [Brown, Ethan]

There is no disputing the fact that post-Chronic rappers like CMC’s Chris Black and DMX came from rough neighborhoods and occasionally hustled to make ends meet. But instead of rhyming ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Thompson, Heather Ann

Bernard “Shango” Stroble (second from right) returns to D Yard with attorneys Ernie Goodman, Haywood Burns, and investigator Linda Borus. (Photograph by Michael Layman. Courtesy of William Goodman.) In time ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Geoffrey Wolff [Wolff, Geoffrey]

The Aquidneck (Photo credit 7.1) 1 In his Maritime History of Maine, William Hutchinson Rowe notes, “Very queer specimens were often brought aboard by the crimps. Three of the crew ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Cloyd, Benjamin G.

6 “Better to Take Advantage of Outsiders’ Curiosity” THE CONSUMPTION OF OBJECTIVE MEMORY, 1960–PRESENT From 1960 through the early twenty-first century, the view that both the Union and the Confederacy ...
( Category: Americas October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Bell, Andrew McIlwaine

{7} BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ON A HUMID DAY in early August 1864, a clerk working in an auction house located a few blocks from the White House looked up and saw ...
( Category: Americas October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Kris Applegate

The Seven Gables Hotel also had a well-known restaurant. On February 2, 1913, the Seven Gables dinner menu included roast possum and sweet potatoes, stewed chicken, roast pork and roast ...
( Category: Americas October 12,2018 )