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Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them by Chris DeRose
epub |eng | 2014-06-06 | Author:Chris DeRose [DeRose, Chris]

The western counties of Virginia, possessing few slaves and strong Union sentiment, met in convention to form their own state government. Not yet proclaiming themselves a separate state, they rather ...
( Category: Civil War December 31,2014 )
Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Religion in America) by Gregory A. Wills
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Gregory A. Wills

Toward the end of the century, when Baptists more frequently joined other denominations, excommunication became a routine affair, espe cially in town and city churches, which handled most of these ...
( Category: Christianity December 31,2014 )
Genesis, The Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:John B. Judis [ John B. Judis]

The Committee Proposals After Jerusalem, the twelve committee members—dubbed the “twelve apostles”—repaired to the quiet beauty of Lausanne, Switzerland, to formulate their findings at the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel on Lac ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 31,2014 )
The Needs of the Many by Michael A. Martin
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Michael A. Martin [Martin, Michael A.]

EXCERPTED FROM AN OFFICIAL KLINGON COMMUNIQUé, RECEIVED STARDATE 76429.4* FROM: J’mpok, son of Q’thoq, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and leader of the High Council TO: The Federation Security Council ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 30,2014 )
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Suskind Ron
mobi |eng | 2004-01-19 | Author:Suskind, Ron [Suskind, Ron]

THE LAUNCH of the administration’s high-powered, carefully vetted Social Security Commission received little attention. O’Neill blamed the scripted nature of the enterprise that tapped only supporters of private accounts. “Imagine ...
( Category: Executive Branch December 29,2014 )
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Catherine Emmerich
mobi |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Anna Catherine Emmerich

They then exchanged a few more words, which I do not now remember, and Pilate returned to the terrace. The answers and deportment of Jesus were far beyond his comprehension; ...
( Category: Death & Grief December 29,2014 )
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Mackay Charles
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Mackay, Charles [Mackay, Charles]

or whether his fiery zeal still rose superior to calamity, and pictured the eventual triumph of his cause. He, so lately the leader of a hundred thousand men, was now ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge December 29,2014 )
Franklin by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Thomas Fleming [Thomas Fleming]

While the courtiers swarmed around Wedderburn in the anteroom of the Cockpit, Franklin went quietly home to Craven Street. The next day he received a letter from the government informing ...
( Category: Personal Narratives December 27,2014 )
Meet You in Hell
epub |eng | 2005-04-17 | Author:Les Standiford

15 OVER THE EDGE HAD THIS BEEN A MODERN-DAY standoff, with Frick in close touch with his emissaries by cell phone and Carnegie observing the scene via CNN satellite feed, ...
( Category: Company Profiles December 27,2014 )
The Roosevelts by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A Manhattan bread line operated by the Salvation Army. By 1931 there were 82 bread lines in New York, serving some 85,000 meals a day to those who had no ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...
( Category: Historic December 27,2014 )
The End of Country by Seamus McGraw
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Seamus McGraw [McGraw, Seamus]

SEVEN The End of Country “Those roads can be treacherous at this time of year,” my mother hissed into the phone, sharpening every sibilant before driving it into my unfeeling ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Sixteenth Rail by Adam Schrager
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Adam Schrager

After stating “the pertinent principles of law” for the grand jurors, Trenchard continued, If, then, the evidence presented to you in the Grand Jury room reasonably tends to show that ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Constitutional Myths by Ray Raphael
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Raphael [Raphael, Ray]

Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court’s other professed originalist, assumes a somewhat milder stance. “If a constitutional line of authority is wrong, he [Thomas] would say let’s get it right,” ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 27,2014 )
Mr. President by Ray Raphael
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Ray Raphael [Raphael, Ray]

Undoubtedly, Washington was just as displeased with the encounter. He was no stranger to seeking advice, but not in a venue such as this. On countless occasions during the Revolution ...
( Category: Executive Branch December 27,2014 )

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