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On Dupont Circle by James Srodes
epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:James Srodes

But in Washington, both President Harding, and later, President Coolidge were captives to a public mood that wanted to prolong the illusions of the postwar recovery and boom that were ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
Passion Plays by Randall Balmer
epub |eng | 2022-04-18 | Author:Randall Balmer

Chapter 4 A Labyrinth of Wanderings Urbanization and the Origins of Basketball Whenever I witness games in a church league, I feel that my vision, almost half a century ago, ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
A Short History of Halifax by Dan Soucoup
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Dan Soucoup

Academy of Music, Barrington Street, c.1908. The academy opened in 1877 and was one of the first public buildings in the city to be lighted by electricity. —Courtesy Dan Soucoup ...
( Category: Canada January 12,2023 )
Haunted Southwest by Alan Brown
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Alan Brown

Pictures fly off the walls, and doors open and close in the LaSalle Hotel. © Larry D. Moore via wikicommons. The Queen Theater One could say that Bill Schulman was ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
Kentucky Book of the Dead by Keven McQueen
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Keven McQueen

Reliable Wraiths The problem with ghosts is that they are temperamental and keep their own hours. They never materialize when you wish them to; instead, they show up when they ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
The Naval War of 1812, Volume 1 by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt [Roosevelt, Theodore]

There being, as already explained, three independent centres of inland naval operations, the events at each will be considered separately. At the opening of the war, Lieutenant Woolsey, with the ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
The First Americans Were Africans by David Imhotep
epub |eng | 2017-03-04 | Author:David Imhotep [Imhotep, David Ph.D.]

So this custom is known in Egypt, Mexico twice, Australia, Samoa and Hawaii. This “facial expression” seems to express some type of aggression. The Maya, during their Pre-Classic period built ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge & Cream of Liberation by Sri Karapatra Swami
epub |eng | | Author:Sri Karapatra Swami [Saraswathi, Ramanananda]

Chapter VII Sâksâtkâra Realization 1. In the foregoing chapters, it was said that direct knowledge must first be gained and then the latent tendencies of the mind wiped out so ...
( Category: First Nations January 12,2023 )
The Relations of the United States and Spain by French Ensor Chadwick
epub |eng | | Author:French Ensor Chadwick [Chadwick, French Ensor]

On November 13 General Sickles wrote Mr. Fish that the minister of state had said at their interview that a partial report of the incidents attending the capture of the ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
The Thirtymile Fire by John N. Maclean
epub |eng | | Author:John N. Maclean

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Lord was good to me. He put wings on my feet and I ran like hell. —Walter Rumsey, survivor of the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire It was ...
( Category: Americas January 10,2023 )
Elusive State of Jefferson by Peter Laufer
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Peter Laufer

Karuk biologist Ken Brink, whose shirt informs, “I’ve come back to my native place.” He answers with a question. “Do we want to start making another species go extinct over ...
( Category: Americas January 10,2023 )
Best Easy Day Hikes Albuquerque by Bruce Grubbs & Globe Pequot Press
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Bruce Grubbs & Globe Pequot Press

Miles and Directions 0.0Park at the locked gate and walk up the road. 0.9The Barts Trail and the Canoncito Trail leave the road. Start up the Barts Trail, which is ...
( Category: Americas January 10,2023 )
To Live and Play in Dixie by Robert D. Jacobus
epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:Robert D. Jacobus

Robert “Boo Lee” Williams knew John White as a youngster growing up in the Third Ward, which is where Texas Southern University is located and was just across Scott Street ...
( Category: Americas January 9,2023 )
Alaska Hunting by Jake Jacobson
epub |eng | | Author:Jake Jacobson

The coral head slabbed up into two nice free form table tops. Next to my military packboard. The day went well and by mid afternoon I had the great coral ...
( Category: Americas January 9,2023 )
Sacramento's Historic Japantown by Kevin Wildie
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Kevin Wildie

A Japanese American family prepares for incarceration. Courtesy Center for Sacramento History, Eugene Hepting Collection, 1985/024/1864. Lion Drug Store’s “Sayonara” sale preparing for incarceration. Courtesy Center for Sacramento History, Eugene ...
( Category: Americas January 9,2023 )

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