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Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts by Amy Bizzarri
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Amy Bizzarri

Stacked with horizontal layers of chocolate, strawberry, Palmer House, pistachio and orange sherbet atop a wafer cone, the Original Rainbow Cone is an iconic Chicago treat. Original Rainbow Cone. Stacked ...
( Category: Regional & International June 24,2018 )
L'Chaim! by Seth H. Bramson
epub |eng | | Author:Seth H. Bramson

She unquestionably ran one of the best—if not the best—big whorehouses in Miami and the South. Her business name was Madam Sherry, and she operated in Miami from 1929 until ...
( Category: World June 24,2018 )
Fort Lauderdale by Susan Gillis
epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Susan Gillis

By the early 1950s, Fort Lauderdale’s beach area was well-developed, with both “mom and pop” motels, as well as grand hotels like the Lauderdale Beach and Trade Winds shown at ...
( Category: Americas June 24,2018 )
The Great Hurricane by Cherie Burns
epub |eng | 2005-06-23 | Author:Cherie Burns

The Great Hurricane traveled unseen offshore as it made its way up the eastern seaboard, evading detection by the U.S. Weather Bureau after it passed Jacksonville, Florida. Forecasters assumed it ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2018 )
Geronimo by Mike Leach
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Leach

GERONIMO’S ADVERSARIES: BRITTON DAVIS, ARMY OFFICER (JUNE 4, 1860–JANUARY 23, 1930) Born at Brownsville, Texas, Davis graduated from West Point in 1881. He joined the 3rd Cavalry and was sent ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 23,2018 )
Travels on the St. Johns River by John Bartram
epub |eng | 2017-06-23 | Author:John Bartram

William Bartram, “Great Yellow Bream calld Old Wife” (aka Warmouth, Lepomis gulosus), watercolor sent to John Fothergill in 1774. By permission of the Natural History Museum, London. THE Orange grove, ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 23,2018 )
The War of 1812 by Donald R Hickey
epub |eng | | Author:Donald R Hickey

Disaffection in New England Prosperity in the middle and western states no doubt contributed to the popularity of the war, but deteriorating economic conditions had the opposite effect in New ...
( Category: Military June 23,2018 )
The Loyal Republic by Erik Mathisen
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Erik Mathisen

African American soldiers: District of Columbia, Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln, ca. 1863–66. Photograph by William Morris Smith. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2018 )
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation by Robert M. Utley
epub, pdf |eng | 1963-06-23 | Author:Robert M. Utley

News of Sitting Bull’s death had no discernible effect either upon the friendlies at Pine Ridge or upon the dancers in the Stronghold. Small parties of warriors from the Stronghold ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2018 )
Chappaquiddick by Leo Damore
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Leo Damore

Chapter 38 KILLEN DISPATCHED DETECTIVE–LIEUTENANT JOHN DUNN TO Rumford, Rhode Island, to interrogate Richards—and later came to regret that he did. Dunn was a thorn in Killen’s side. A former ...
( Category: True Crime June 23,2018 )
In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Larry McMurtry

WHEN I CLEARED CUSTOMS, a simple process on that border, it was 1:30 P.M. and eighty-nine degrees Fahrenheit in the shade of the customs shed. All Texas lay before me—literally. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 23,2018 )
Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-12-29 | Author:Leonid Andreyev

8. DEATH EXISTS. SO DOES LIFE Sergey Golovin had given no thought to death, which had seemed so irrelevant, of no concern to him. He was a fit, strong and ...
( Category: Literary June 22,2018 )
Nazi Nexus by Edwin Black
epub |eng | | Author:Edwin Black [BLACK, EDWIN]

Sources: Primary documentation for this chapter is drawn exclusively from War Against the Weak by Edwin Black. CHAPTER FOUR GM and the Motorization of the Reich suddenly the dull camouflage ...
( Category: World June 21,2018 )
Wild Women of Washington, D.C. by Canden Schwantes
epub |eng | 2014-06-21 | Author:Canden Schwantes

FULL-FLEDGED LAWYERS In March 1919, the front page of the Washington Times shared the story of a “Pretty D.C. ‘Stenog’ Now a Full Fledged Lawyer.” There are few instances in ...
( Category: World June 21,2018 )
The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

EXCHANGING PRISONERS ONCE AGAIN Despite the victory at Yorktown, there were still nearly a thousand of our brave fellows prisoners in England, and 200 in Ireland, who were destitute of ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2018 )

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