Americas
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Gilman, Rhoda R. [Gilman, Rhoda R.]

Grant County farmers among the marchers to the state capitol, 1935 (George E. Luxton) Early in August 1932, a spontaneous strike that was started by dairy farmers around Sioux City, ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Wells, Dean Faulkner [Wells, Dean Faulkner]

*Before Jimmy and T, I had been a hymn-singing Baptist with Mama and Papa. My predestination phase lasted through high school until I discovered and fell in love with the ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Smiley, Jane [Smiley, Jane]

Although Atanasoff was invited to the February 1946 unveiling of ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended, the demonstration of the machine did not clear up any mysteries for ...
( Category: History & Culture April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Kingston, Maxine Hong [Kingston, Maxine Hong]

At the Western Palace When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing ...
( Category: Memoirs April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Colacello, Bob [Colacello, Bob]

3 0 6 Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House Mary Jane and Charles Wick, a show business lawyer who started a nationwide chain of nursing homes in ...
( Category: Historical April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Gibbs, Nancy & Duffy, Michael [Gibbs, Nancy & Duffy, Michael]

The Impromptu Floor Speech That Wasn’t But there was one last weird drama to play out. The final scene in Kansas City was to be a reminder that Reagan left ...
( Category: Historical April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Swanson, James L. [Swanson, James L.]

Lincoln’s funeral car. Chapter Ten But this transformation had not yet taken place as the train approached Baltimore. The whole state of Maryland, and Baltimore in particular, were known for ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Rathbone, John Paul [Rathbone, John Paul]

Within a decade, Lobo’s mighty works would also disappear. Fifty years after that, Castro’s socialist revolution would seem like an Ozymandian dream too. Nine IMPERIAL AFFAIRS Fortune is a woman ...
( Category: Historical April 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-26 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

Franklin the satirist appears next: “A virtuous Action it would be, and a vicious one the killing of them, if the Species were really worth producing or preserving; but of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Barrett, Paul M. [Barrett, Paul M.]

Some civilian shooting experts dissented, at least to an extent, from the majority’s unmitigated admiration for the Glock. “The gun factory ads cry, ‘Glock Perfection,’ ” Massad Ayoob wrote in ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Millard, Candice [Millard, Candice]

CHAPTER 19 The Wide Belts BY ROUGHLY TWO MILLION years ago, humans had spread out of Africa and into Europe and Asia. Hundreds of thousands of years later, they migrated ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Dekok, David [Dekok, David]

Schurman’s troubles were far from over. As jubilant as he had a right to feel in fixing the deal for the filtration plant, he still had to win the battle ...
( Category: Medicine April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1840-01-01 | Author:Dana, Richard Henry [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-13 | Author:White, Ronald C. [White, Ronald C.]

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 26,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Bush, George W. [Bush, George W.]

On Sunday morning, March 16, I boarded Air Force One and winged my way to the Azores Islands, a Portuguese territory about two thirds of the way from Washington to ...
( Category: Historical April 26,2018 )