Americas
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

CHAPTER XXXI. A Consultation Whether to Proceed by Land or Water— Preparations for Boat-Building.—An Exploring Party.—A Party of Trappers Detached.—Two Snake Visitors.—Their Report Concerning the River.—Confirmed by the Exploring Party.—Mad ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891 It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had ...
( Category: Civil War January 21,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * XXII WHEN Amherst woke, the next morning, in the hotel to which he had gone up from Lynbrook, he was oppressed by the sense that the hardest ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SKETCH-BOOK. In the cloisters of the ancient Benedictine convent of San Domingo, at Silos, in Castile, are the mouldering yet magnificent monuments of the once ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory January 21,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert A. Caro

AS HE ENTERED the home stretch, however, he made two improvements in his strategy. One was his own inspiration. He always enjoyed such great success with elderly people; now he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 20,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Kris Millegan [Millegan, Kris]

8. Elimination of German Resources for War: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress; Part 5, Testimony of [the United States] Treasury ...
( Category: State & Local January 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Laird Scranton [Scranton, Laird]

With those points in mind, we now are ready to consider the nummo fish drawing and how it might represent processes related to the perception of waves. Beginning at the ...
( Category: Mystery January 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Mitchell

11 SONNY AND THE MOB Joe Miceli was just making a living, doing the best he could. But Estes Kefauver had little time for fighters’ hard-luck stories. He viewed the ...
( Category: State & Local January 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Susan Veness [Veness, Susan]

Imagine That! Imagineer Ron Rodriguez remembers the challenges of booking the original entertainment for the Italy pavilion: “Sonny Anderson, then the Director of Casting and Booking in California, was traveling ...
( Category: South Atlantic January 18,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-14 | Author:Bill Bryson

INTERESTINGLY, at just about the time I acquired my television I realized that I didn’t really like TV very much—or, to put it more accurately, didn’t much like what was ...
( Category: State & Local January 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

Kennedy did not dispute the failure to do big things at home. But for the time being, he felt that foreign dangers still had to command his primary attention. And ...
( Category: Executive Branch January 13,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Mel Ayton [Ayton, Mel]

When Mahonski was arraigned before a judge, he insisted that he had been drugged by President Reagan, the CIA, the FBI, and the Air Force. He also said government agents ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:David Ray Griffin

13. PENTAGON’S CLAIM OF IGNORANCE Those who planned the Pentagon attack clearly wanted some people in the Pentagon to die. As we saw in the previous chapter, Cheney knew several ...
( Category: Specific Topics January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Nixon

ITT The day after we returned from China, Jack Anderson began a series of newspaper columns in which he claimed to have unearthed a major administration scandal. His charges were ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Spike Walker

CHAPTER 6 When Lt. Bill Adickes walked down the short distance from his office and stepped into the Operations Center in the remote Coast Guard outpost in Sitka, Alaska, things ...
( Category: State & Local January 10,2016 )