epub |eng | 2023-07-02 | Author:Various

Firestarter Jonathan Green ‘Well, someone knows who it was!’ Antrobus Vetch yelled at the cowering Gravalax Mune, his reedy voice becoming even more high-pitched as he berated his underling. ‘Someone ...

epub |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

Meanwhile, what was going on in and around Santa Fe? Not a single eyewitness account of the immediate aftermath of the expulsion of the Europeans exists in the Spanish record. ...

pdf |en | | Author: Bernard Bailyn

epub |eng | 2015-10-29 | Author:Paul B. Moyer [Moyer, Paul B.]

“Yankee-play” The arrival of large numbers of New Englanders in Northeast Pennsylvania caused a considerable amount of apprehension among state land claimants. Samuel Preston, a Quaker and land agent for ...

epub |eng | 2022-11-02 | Author:Malcolm Gaskill [Gaskill, Malcolm]

* * * — A rite of spring, traditionally marked with processions and dancing, May Day festivities had been suppressed in Old and New England as “a heathenish vanity, generally ...

pdf | | | Author:by Elizabeth Reis

epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Synge, M. B. [Synge, M. B.]

CHAPTER XXIX The Founding of Quebec "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past." —T. MOORE, (Canadian Boat Song). WHILE Henry Hudson was ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Winifred Gallagher

• • • STEAM POWER HAD IMPROVED postal service for most Americans by the late nineteenth century, but others, particularly in the western outback, remained beyond the pale. Letters that ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Kidd, Thomas S.

Virginia’s turn to slavery transpired over a longer period of time, as its supply of African slaves in the early and mid-1600s was limited by imperial and economic factors in ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Sydney George Fisher

In a letter to Lord Karnes which has been often quoted he explained at length, and for the most part in very technical language, the reasons for the superiority of ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-23 | Author:Stephen Coss

18 POINTED SATYR Late on the afternoon of December 2, 1721, several hours after what Samuel Sewall called “a great Funeral” for the deceased Boston politician William Hutchinson, a letter ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ann Chandonnet

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS New foods affected not only diet and health but also trade, and trade between Old and New Worlds was significant. A letter of November 5, 1626 to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Sears

Forged from Steel Carnegie’s plants manufactured Bessemer steel, a new way of forging the metal from pig iron. In 1901 J. Pierpont Morgan bought out Carnegie and formed the United ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Matthew Spalding & Patrick J. Garrity & Daniel J. Boorstin [Spalding, Matthew & Garrity, Patrick J. & Boorstin, Daniel J.]

Mather’s work became a survey of diseases. One of the proposals for its printing called it “An Essay upon the Common Maladies of Mankind: offering, first, The Sentiments of Piety, ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Alan Taylor [Taylor, Alan]

Chapter 6 West Indies and Carolina Although few New Englanders owned slaves, their farms and ships serviced the slave-based economy of the West Indies: a set of fertile subtropical islands ...