Americas
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Spence,Lewis [Spence,Lewis]

The Temple of Inscriptions The Temple of Inscriptions, perched on an eminence some 40 feet high, is the largest edifice in Palenque. It has a façade 74 feet long by ...
( Category: Americas June 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Robb Ellis

Chapter 26 THE TWEED SCANDALS WILLIAM MARCY TWEED was a huge man. He stood 5 feet 11 inches tall, and his weight varied from 280 to 320 pounds. Like some ...
( Category: World June 23,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-06-21 | Author:David Ovason

The bronze statue of Einstein looks in some puzzlement at the pavement of stars, and almost negligently tilts the side of his shoe over the northern stars of Boötes and ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-21 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

CHAPTER 9 Secret Agents THE SUMMER OF 1930 HAD BEEN LONG, hot, and frustrating for Frank J. Wilson, who led the IRS investigation of Al Capone. Wilson had watched the ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-21 | Author:Stephen Ambrose

The following morning Hancock ordered Custer to pursue the fleeing Indians. Delaware scouts found the trail and led the way. The trail led north, but because the Indians had no ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Jill Lepore

When Gould got out of the hospital, his rent, at a place called Maison Gerard, was paid by this mysterious benefactor. He was desperate to discover her identity. He heard ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-08-19 | Author:Jonnes, Jill [Jonnes, Jill]

Having emerged from the shadows, Thomas Edison did not retreat again. He now proceeded to use the full force of his monumental fame and prestige to persuade the public and ...
( Category: Engineering June 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Dorothy Spruill Redford

Elijah Honeyblew (right, 1861–1947) was a fifth-generation descendant of Guinea Jack and Fanny Collins, two native Africans brought to Somerset Place in 1786. Judith Littlejohn (below, 1866–1922), daughter of Peter ...
( Category: Photography & Video June 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-24 | Author:Sherburne, Michelle Arnosky [Sherburne, Michelle Arnosky]

Parker Pillsbury Born in Massachusetts, Parker Pillsbury moved to Henniker and called New Hampshire home the rest of his life. He farmed but also became a Congregational minister and served ...
( Category: Americas June 22,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1986-08-04 | Author:Sidney W. Mintz

With you I see, in ages yet unborn, Thy votaries the British Isles adorn, With joy I see enamour’d youths despise The goblet’s luster for the false one’s eyes; Till ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Phillips

13 DRIVEN TO THE COOK STOVES Many whites in Forsyth spent the days after the hangings defending Bill Reid against criticism in the Atlanta papers and congratulating him on a ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Steigerwald

CHAPTER 11 Sneaking Through the Delta And we are nothing more Than a herd of Negroes Driven to the field —FROM “SHARECROPPERS”BY LANGSTON HUGHES Sprigle and Dobbs pushed north on ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Larry Tye

Had he ended on this emotional high point it would have been enough. It also would have had the world speculating—as many did anyway—whether, if JFK was the dead hero ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard MacMahon & Allison McGourty & Elijah Wald

HOMESICK JAMES: The notes are stacked on top of each other. Blablablablablablah. Too quick. HONEYBOY EDWARDS: And very few of ’em can sing. Very few of ’em got a voice ...
( Category: Music June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Gabriele, Michael C. [Gabriele, Michael C.]

As for the material she performed on stage, the reviewer lauded her singing of ballads such as “Portland Town” and “Silver Dagger.” Her set list also included songs of the ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )