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Typhoid Mary by Judith Walzer Leavitt
epub |eng | 1996-03-18 | Author:Judith Walzer Leavitt [Leavitt, Judith Walzer]

Fig. 6.1. One of the concrete buildings of Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, date unknown. Let us return to North Brother Island, where health officials moved a resistant, scared, and ...
( Category: Medicine March 19,2017 )
Crude Volatility by Robert McNally
epub |eng | 2017-01-16 | Author:Robert McNally

THE GHOST OF JAKARTA The unexpected price increase in 1996 and 1997 averted a full clash between Venezuela and other OPEC members.9 But later in 1997 the Asian financial crisis ...
( Category: Oil & Energy March 19,2017 )
Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi
epub |eng | 2017-01-16 | Author:Matt Taibbi

15 March 1, 2016: Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Donald Trump * * * Bush was just an appetizer—Trump would be the main course ...
( Category: Elections March 19,2017 )
Abigail Adams by Abigail Adams
epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Abigail Adams

“RENEWED INSULTS” To Mary Smith Cranch Philadelphia, March 27, 1798 MY DEAR SISTER: I received yesterday your kind Letter of March 19th, I expect a Letter every week if you ...
( Category: Historical March 19,2017 )
The Invisible Irish by Sherling Rankin;
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Sherling, Rankin; [Sherling, Rankin;]

(2) “A LAWLESS, TURBULENT, AND DANGEROUS SPIRIT OF INSURGENCY” A second major reason we posited for the slow-down in clerical migration from 1739 to 1769 was that it was a ...
( Category: United States March 18,2017 )
If You Can Keep It by Eric Metaxas
epub |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Eric Metaxas

Let’s go back to Longfellow’s poem. I remember that as I read through its magnificent lines, its peculiar magic worked on me. For the first time in my life I ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2017 )
Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Caitlin Moran

Slash & Burn—My Life with Cystitis Of course, you don’t need the entire Internet to bring you low, if you’re a woman. Sometimes, your urethra will do that for you. ...
( Category: Women March 15,2017 )
Dwelling by Thomas S. Flowers
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Thomas S. Flowers [Flowers, Thomas S.]

*** Downstairs, breakfast was long over. But, thankfully, a row of heated urns still contained some coffee inside. Johnathan pressed the lever and filled a to-go cup, courtesy of Capital ...
( Category: Supernatural March 15,2017 )
TIME-LIFE American Inventors by The Editors of TIME-LIFE
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:The Editors of TIME-LIFE

From its simple beginnings with handkerchiefs and ribbon, the brassiere has developed into an item with $15 billion annual global sales. CARESSE CROSBY, DISTANTLY RELATED TO ROBERT FULTON, ONCE REMARKED ...
( Category: History of Technology March 15,2017 )
Since Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frederick Lewis Allen [Allen, Frederick Lewis]

§5 Through the years 1934 and 1935, President Roosevelt was sore beset. Economic recovery was lagging badly. For a measure of what was happening, let us return once more to ...
( Category: United States March 13,2017 )
Enduring by S.J. West
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:S.J. West [West, S.J.]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (Helena’s Point of View) “What are you planning?” Lucifer yells at me, his eyes wild with madness. “I know you’re up to something!” He pulls me forward just ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 13,2017 )
Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Jeff Madrick [Madrick, Jeff]

15 George Soros and John Meriwether FABULOUS WEALTH AND CONTROVERSIAL POWER Until the mid-1980s, the takeover movement was the way to make the most money on Wall Street. Men like ...
( Category: United States March 11,2017 )
Curiosities of the California Desert: Historic, Offbeat & Forgotten Attractions by Heller Claudia
epub |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Heller, Claudia [Heller, Claudia]

The 1897 Santa Barbara Church in Randsburg burned down soon after it was constructed. It was rebuilt in 1904. It is probably the most photographed structure in the old mining ...
( Category: Pictorial March 9,2017 )
A Conservative History of the American Left by Flynn Daniel J
mobi |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Flynn, Daniel J. [Flynn, Daniel J.]

17 COMMUNISM IS TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICANISM That henceforth we be no more children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by ...
( Category: History & Theory March 9,2017 )
Oregon Prizefighters: Forgotten Bare-knuckle Champions of Portland & Astoria (Sports) by Blalock Barney
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Blalock, Barney [Blalock, Barney]

SAN FRANCISCO HONEYMOON Upon arrival in San Francisco, Dempsey soon found that public opinion had experienced one of those California earthquakes, shifting pugilism’s legal status into an unfavorable light. A ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2017 )

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