Americas
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Ian McEwan [McEwan, Ian]

For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. The corporals’ snores rose and fell in counterpoint. He was exhausted, but ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adam Smith

CHAPTER IV. OF DRAWBACKS. Merchants and manufacturers are not contented with the monopoly of the home market, but desire likewise the most extensive foreign sale for their goods. Their country ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1541-12-31 | Author:Cabeza de Vaca

31 The Tribal Split and News of the Remaining Barge When the six months I had been biding my time were up, the Indians proceeded to the prickly pears thirty ...
( Category: State & Local December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Jeanette Winterson

6 Joshua “There,” declared my mother, laying down the vacuum cleaner. “You could keep a coffin in here without feeling guilty, not a speck of dust anywhere.” Mrs White came ...
( Category: LGBT Literary Fiction December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Jim Garrison [Garrison, Jim]

Compared to the brutality wrought on the facts by N.B.C., the Columbia Broadcasting System’s documentary was civilized—although much of it was untrue. It was aired on four successive evenings in ...
( Category: United States December 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

Chapter 16 Spreading the News As uncertain and confused as things were on the rebel side in the first few weeks after April 19, rebel leaders recognized the importance of ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Farquhar, Michael [Farquhar, Michael]

3 They Just Can’t Be Etruscted Millions of visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art were awed for half a century by two large warrior statues (and a huge ...
( Category: Political December 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Charles Royster [Royster, Charles]

When members of the Dismal Swamp Company met in Richmond, with Reuben Lindsay attending in place of Dr. Thomas Walker, Walker was entering his seventies. His shoulders were rounded, his ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 4,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-21 | Author:Richard Heinberg

Encampment of the Peikann Indians 1840-1843. So how did we arrive at civilization in the first place? It’s a long story, but one worth rehearsing periodically so as to remind ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:David Fiske

IN NEW ORLEANS AND WASHINGTON Two days later, Solomon and Henry were in New Orleans. By this time, they had probably decided to file charges against Birch, and Henry needed ...
( Category: State & Local December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Bonar Menninger [Menninger, Bonar]

The weapon was inferior in some respects to the M-14 and equal to it in others. Consequently, the gun in no way represented enough of an improvement in the “state ...
( Category: United States December 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Sigmund Freud

( Category: Historical November 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Tim McGrath

To fight against the British and win our liberty. We shipped with Captain Whipple who never knew a fear, The Captain of the Providence, the Yankee privateer.40 On it went ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Larson

* * * BOOK III From Mount Vernon to New York 1788–1789 * * * Federalist cartoon from June 1788, portraying the states ratifying the Constitution as rising columns in ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 28,2014 )
epub |rus | 2009-10-31 | Author:Prouty, L. Fletcher & Stone, Oliver [Prouty, L. Fletcher]

This is straight out of Mao Tse-tung’s Little Red Book. In other words, all of a sudden the teaching of Mao, the Chinese Communist leader, had become part of the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 28,2014 )