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The Celebration Chronicles by Andrew Ross Ph.D
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Andrew Ross, Ph.D. [Ross, Andrew]

Apopka farmworkers before the last harvest. (Photo: Sister Ann Kendrick, The Last Harvest project, Crealdé School of Art) I wondered what the lunatics would have done. From what we had ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
GPS Declassified by Richard D. Easton & Eric F. Frazier & Rick W. Sturdevant
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Richard D. Easton & Eric F. Frazier & Rick W. Sturdevant

9 Where Are We? GPS and GNSS Today I once was lost but now am found. John Newton, “Amazing Grace ,” 1779 Like millions of motorists, thirty-two-year-old Jeramie Griffin, a ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
One Nation, Under Gods by Manseau Peter
epub |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Manseau, Peter

A singular instance of forbearance, arising from the powerful influence of religious principles, is recorded in the history of the Caliphs. A slave one day during a repast, was so ...
( Category: General March 22,2015 )
God of the Rodeo by Daniel Bergner
epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Daniel Bergner [Bergner, Daniel]

SEVEN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI HAD BEEN SURGING. WITH Easter six days away, the river at Angola’s bend climbed past record height and was starting to flood the prison. I traveled ...
( Category: Men March 22,2015 )
The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry: A History of Misery and Medicine (Landmarks) (PA) by Webster J.P
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-25 | Author:Webster, J.P. [Webster, J.P.]

A mere month later, he reported the situation as “hopeless” and claimed he had inherited a “medieval pesthouse.” He was, however, able to raise its standards to “the equivalent of ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
Crucible of Command by William C. Davis
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William C. Davis [Davis, William C.]

When he decided to go for Jackson, Grant had sent McClernand’s corps to Edwards’ Station on the Vicksburg & Jackson Railroad, about twenty-eight miles west of Jackson and eighteen miles ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2015 )
When Hollywood Had a King by Connie Bruck
epub |eng | 2003-06-02 | Author:Connie Bruck

It was remarkable, really, how smooth Wasserman’s assumption within the movie industry had been. Remarkable that the other studio heads just gave way, that in an instant he was able ...
( Category: Business March 22,2015 )
At the Plaza by Curtis Gathje
epub |eng | | Author:Curtis Gathje

Clockwise from top left: Bob Hope amusing friends onstage, Liberace with Ted Straeter (the room’s bandleader), a tent card from the fall of 1971, and Dorothy Kilgallen at a charity ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
Return to Wake Robin by Marnie O. Mamminga
epub |eng | | Author:Marnie O. Mamminga [Marnie O. Mamminga]

The Lodge Beckons 1923–1967 “This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather It was the heart of the camp. Low slung, dark and rambling, its ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
Volcker by William L. Silber
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:William L. Silber

The collision between Volcker’s tight monetary policy and Reagan’s budget deficit resembled cold war brinksmanship, like Kennedy confronting Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba.38 The stakes were not nearly as ominous ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2015 )
The Women who Wrote the War by Nancy Cladwell Sorel
epub |eng | 1990-03-20 | Author:Nancy Cladwell Sorel

21 Trekking North from Rome But not all women correspondents that summer of 1944 were primed to go to Normandy. When Martha Gellhorn, confined to a nurses’ training camp in ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2015 )
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom by James Green
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:James Green [Green, James]

Chapter 12 There Can Be No Peace in West Virginia May 30–August 7, 1921 Outraged by the military autocracy Major Davis had imposed in the Williamson minefield, Harold Houston decided ...
( Category: Natural Resource Extraction March 21,2015 )
Love Triangle: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, & Nancy Davis (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince [Porter, Darwin]

Reagan gave Jane permission to “date” handsome Van Johnson, with his clean-cut boy-next-door look. Perhaps Van’s gender preference for men reassured everyone that he wouldn’t pose any serious threat to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Donald Critchlow
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Donald Critchlow [Critchlow, Donald]

Chapter 6 Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877–1918 Self-gain, partisan loyalty, and corruption characterized politics after the Civil War at a time when United States became the world’s ...
( Category: State & Local March 21,2015 )
The First Salute by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
mobi |eng | 1989-09-06 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

X “A Successful Battle May Give Us America” IF THE FRENCH did not recognize the significance to themselves of what they were doing in aiding the rebels, neither did the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 21,2015 )

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