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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day by Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor [Boulware, Jack & Tudor, Silke]

If the Kids Are United: Rock Against Reagan Mike Tsongas: The War Chest Tour was one of many predecessors to the Black Bloc. David Solnit hung around us a lot ...
( Category: Punk May 27,2014 )
A Woman of Courage on the West Virginia Frontier by Robert N. Thompson
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Robert N. Thompson [Thompson, Robert N.]

This monument along County Route 8 west of Peora, West Virginia, marks the location of the Cunningham farm. The sandstone rock comes from the cave in which the Wyandot hid ...
( Category: State & Local May 26,2014 )
Niagara: A History of the Falls by Pierre Berton
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Pierre Berton

Chapter Eight 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly 2 The ice bridge 3 Annie 4 Fame and fortune or instant death 5 Aftermath 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly In the dying days of ...
( Category: State & Local May 26,2014 )
American Nations by Colin Woodard
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Colin Woodard

CHAPTER 17 Appalachia Spreads West It is little wonder that historians have long identified the Appalachian people with the frontier. Borderlanders were the first to move across the Appalachians, forcing ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 20,2014 )
The Mob and the City by C. Alexander Hortis
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:C. Alexander Hortis

Mob front groups used similar tactics. In 1960, a member of an “Italian-American service organization,” identified as “William Bonanno, a wholesale food distributor from Tucson, Ariz.,” condemned the “stereotyping of ...
( Category: State & Local May 20,2014 )
Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis

What happened to Amelia Earhart? After Charles Lindbergh, the most famous flier of the day was Amelia Earhart (1897–1937). Born in Kansas, she graduated high school in Chicago in 1915 ...
( Category: United States May 8,2014 )
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Kalee Thompson

David Silveira normally sailed as the captain of one of the FCA’s long-liners, the Alaska Pioneer. He’d agreed to step in—temporarily—as the Alaska Ranger’s first mate. Photograph courtesy of Celeste ...
( Category: United States May 8,2014 )
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History May 7,2014 )
Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Powers

SIMPLIFY 14. THE IDLE MAJORITY ON JANUARY 21, 1949, some two billion people woke up and got out of bed, still unaware of the terrible change that had taken place ...
( Category: Environmental May 7,2014 )
Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition by Linda P. Gross
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Linda P. Gross

J. L. MOTT’S FOUNTAIN. The iron fountain created by the Jordan L. Mott Iron Works, of New York, was 45 feet in diameter and 26 feet in height. The four ...
( Category: State & Local April 18,2014 )
Lady in the Dark by Robert Sitton
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Robert Sitton

the board fell into the grip of conservative, elderly trustees led by President Stephen Clark, the severe, humorless, black-clad heir to the Singer sewing machine and Clark thread fortunes. During ...
( Category: Theory April 5,2014 )
The Korean War by Max Hastings
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Max Hastings [Hastings, Max]

On 27 March, another landmark was passed when the first UN troops – ROK I Corps – once more crossed the 38th Parallel. They took the town of Yangyang four ...
( Category: United States March 30,2014 )
Lies the government told you by Andrew P. Napolitano
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Andrew P. Napolitano

Lie #10 “I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help.” In a 1988 speech, President Ronald Reagan declared, “There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans ...
( Category: History & Theory March 28,2014 )
Dereliction of Duty by H. R. McMaster
epub |eng | 1997-03-27 | Author:H. R. McMaster [McMaster, H. R.]

General Westmoreland did not share Taylor’s reluctance to introduce American ground combat units. Like Harold Johnson, Westmoreland believed that ground forces should deploy to South Vietnam before the initiation of ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 28,2014 )
The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2013 by Bob Sehlinger
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Bob Sehlinger

HOST CASINO AND SHOWROOM Golden Nugget—Golden Nugget Theater; 866-946-5336; countrysuperstars.com Type of show Country music concert. Admission $25–$62. Cast size 12. Night of lowest attendance Wednesday. Usual showtimes Tuesday–Thursday, 9:30 ...
( Category: State & Local March 27,2014 )

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