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An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

THE FIRST CONFRONTATION By the end of October, some observers already feared that when the tea arrived, a mob would board the ships and either burn their cargo or throw ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding May 27,2015 )
The Canal Builders by Julie Greene
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Julie Greene [Greene Julie]

The song suggests the importance of women in producing good food for their husbands and families. A woman would help weed the crops so that bad grasses (“bayma,” or Bahama ...
( Category: Panama May 27,2015 )
Canada and Other Matters of Opinion by Rex Murphy
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Rex Murphy [Murphy, Rex]

A JOINT IS A SMOKE | Novemeber 27, 2004 Social pressure accounts for the decline of smoking. It is surely not the risible Health Canada public-service messages, or the extravagantly ...
( Category: Canadian May 27,2015 )
Operation Overflight by Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry
epub |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry

FOUR USA One Reporters were watching all the major airports, but particularly Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington, D.C. Possibly this was because it was here that President Kennedy had ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
All the Great Prizes by John Taliaferro
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Taliaferro

CHAPTER 15 Spheres of Influence As much as Hay had complained about the clammy climate and diplomatic frustration of Washington, he fretted obsessively about the business yet unfinished. “I am ...
( Category: American Civil War May 27,2015 )
The Bottom Line by Sandy James
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Sandy James [James, Sandy]

Mallory stayed in bed for a good, long while, wondering if she could follow through with the sensual promise she’d made Ben. She’d never been shy where sex was concerned. ...
( Category: Architecture May 27,2015 )
The Wager Disaster by C.H. Layman
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:C.H. Layman [Layman, C.H.]

Chapter 18 Foul Weather Defeats Them Wager Island, 15th December 1741. The 17 survivors set out in the two small boats to attempt the perilous crossing of the bay. Foul ...
( Category: Naval May 27,2015 )
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar by Matt McAllester
epub |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Matt McAllester

At an interview in his Jerusalem residence shortly before his final stroke, Sharon showed himself once more to be conscious of his physique. It took me an hour to get ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction May 27,2015 )
Tales of a Texas Boy by Marva Dasef
epub |eng | | Author:Marva Dasef

One Fine Dog Dogs weren’t just pets, but working members of the family. Sometimes, they could do amazing things and perform feats that were almost like magic. Ma yelled loud ...
( Category: State & Local May 27,2015 )
Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth A. Fenn

MIH-TUTTA-HANG-KUSCH, JULY 30, 1825 Two years after Leavenworth’s troops had put the Arikaras to flight, another imposing force made its way up the Missouri. This huge flotilla—nine keelboats with hand-powered ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Lou Gehrig by Paul Gallico
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Gallico

9 “STRIKE OUT YOU BIG GOOF”—IT WAS LOVE! Life went on. Lou gained in stature and ability. His mother kept house for him, and continued to play the role of ...
( Category: Baseball May 27,2015 )
Keep the Change by Harley J. Spiller
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Harley J. Spiller [Harley J. Spiller]

…but I’m not bound and I never will Be to a wrinkled crinkled wadded dollar bill. “Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill,” 1968 song written by Vince Matthews and sung by ...
( Category: Coins & Medals May 27,2015 )
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History by James W. Loewen
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:James W. Loewen

The infant emerges easily … and is immediately placed to the mother’s breast as she lies down. The umbilical cord is cut in anything from a few minutes to as ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Double Agent : The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring (9781451667974) by Duffy Peter
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-24 | Author:Duffy, Peter

CHAPTER TEN AND YOU BE CAREFUL I noticed the beautiful dog that was following you on 42nd Street yesterday. I was very interested in it and a friend of mine ...
( Category: World War II May 26,2015 )
Dissent by Young Ralph
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Young, Ralph [Young, Ralph]

Mother Jones, 1915. Photograph of the labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930) attending the 1915 hearings of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations at New York City Hall. (Public domain; courtesy ...
( Category: History & Theory May 26,2015 )

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