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epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

CHAPTER 19 GREEN HELL There is hardly any celebrated enterprise in War which was not achieved by endless exertion, pains, and privations; and as here the weakness of the physical ...
( Category: World War I June 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lewis M. Steel

15 Tony Maynard At around four in the morning of April 3, 1967, a white Marine sergeant, Michael Kroll, dressed in his uniform and recently back from the Vietnam War, ...
( Category: State & Local June 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Wendy Hamand Venet [Venet, Wendy Hamand]

8. The Barbarous War On a hot, humid night in July 1864, Sam Richards pulled out his small clothbound diary and penned an entry. Richards worried about the military situation, ...
( Category: State & Local June 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Brian Luskey [Luskey, Brian]

Home, Sweet Home Dr. Edward Dixon’s reference during the early closing movement to the clerk who moved into a “fifth-rate boarding-house” exhibited a concern shared by parents and ministers that ...
( Category: United States June 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Cost [Cost, Jay]

To put the story told in this chapter into context, it is worth revisiting a point already made. As noted previously, most of the gains from farm subsidies are to ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion June 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-09 | Author:DAVID BARSAMIAN

SIX THE DOCTRINE OF GOOD INTENTIONS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (NOVEMBER 30, 2004) You’ve written about the “doctrine of good intentions.” Occasionally U.S. policy is marred by the proverbial “bad apples” and ...
( Category: Terrorism June 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-08 | Author:Stephen Puleo [Puleo, Stephen]

Thursday, January 16, 1919, 8 p.m. While clean-up and recovery efforts were continuing, church bells throughout Boston pealed in celebration. Nebraska had just become the thirty-sixth state to ratify the ...
( Category: State & Local June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-28 | Author:Amy Edmondson

Sensors to the Rescue One of the transformative innovations in the building space is the use of sensors in the construction process. Meanwhile recent advances in building controls integrate sensors ...
( Category: Communications May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Edward Ball [Ball, Edward]

The redoubt in San Francisco known as Fort Gunnybags, from which vigilantes ruled the city using mob actions and lynching in 1856, the summer after E. J. Muggridge arrived. (Illustration ...
( Category: State & Local May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Insight Guides

Look for colorful murals painted by artist Roy Purcell on boulders outside Chloride. Follow Tennessee Avenue into the hills about a mile from town. Switching from the modern to the ...
( Category: Mountain May 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Shaw [Shaw, John]

PAINFULLY AND PROUDLY, African Americans had embraced, in song, the complexity of loving and remaining loyal to a country that had mistreated and continued to mistreat them. What W. E. ...
( Category: Country & Folk May 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin [Hill, Clint & McCubbin, Lisa]

My emotions, as well as those of the other agents, must be suppressed because we cannot allow personal feelings to interfere with the job we have to do. We must ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Cheri Register

Mary Meighen and an unidentified child at the Meighen home in LeRoy, Minnesota, about 1890. Minnesota Historical Society Collections. Meighen’s promise not to marry before he could afford a respectable ...
( Category: State & Local May 20,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Colin Spoelman

An eight-story aging warehouse at an unknown distillery PAUL JONES WHISKEY BROKER 1841–1895 Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky Paul Jones at least carries this distinction: He has the largest tomb ...
( Category: Spirits May 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Brendan McDonough

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN One morning, we got a call to southern Arizona. A fire was burning out of control in what we call the wildland-urban interface, the point at which the ...
( Category: State & Local May 19,2016 )