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The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Wood Gordon S
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Wood, Gordon S [Wood, Gordon S]

AFTERWORD TO CHAPTER 6 This essay is a much-revised and updated version of a lecture originally given before the Kentucky legislature in Frankfort, Kentucky, on January 9, 1974, which perhaps ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis [1999, 2013] by Stephen Halliday
epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Stephen Halliday [Halliday, Stephen]

The Board had slowly, with great reluctance and with a strong rearguard action, come to accept that it could no longer discharge raw sewage into the Thames. A solution which ...
( Category: Europe April 6,2018 )
Outlaw Marriages by Rodger Streitmatter
epub |eng | | Author:Rodger Streitmatter

ACHIEVING GREATNESS Copland experienced a string of major successes beginning in 1942 when the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra asked him to write a short piece for brass and ...
( Category: Women in History April 6,2018 )
Bittersweet by Peter Macinnis
epub |eng | 2010-05-28 | Author:Peter Macinnis

7 RUM AND POLITICS Approval given to Mr Waterhouse to supply King James’s ships at Jamaica with Rumm instead of Brandy, he takeing care that the good or ill effects ...
( Category: Cooking by Ingredient April 5,2018 )
Life at the Dakota by Stephen Birmingham
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Birmingham

Part Four BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER Where else the bounty of an age Where space was undivided? Where else the stately Otis cage By gentlewomen guided?… FROM “Ballad of the ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Osman Suleiman;
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Osman, Suleiman;

6 Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn In October 1973, Brooklyn Heights’ Bossert Hotel, once the site for the seminal CCIC anti-urban-renewal rally, hosted the city’s first Brownstone Fair. Organized by the Brooklyn ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
Absolute Madness by Catherine Pelonero
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Catherine Pelonero

Joe Cooley and Mel Lobbett returned to the task force with the photograph of Joseph Christopher holding a Sturm-Ruger 10/22 rifle. The following morning, Tuesday, April 21, Lobbett and state ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling April 5,2018 )
The Pub by Pete Brown
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Pete Brown

THE PROSPECT OF WHITBY [4] 57 Wapping Wall, London E1W 3SH www.taylor-walker.co.uk Dating back to 1520, the Prospect of Whitby claims to be London’s oldest surviving riverside pub. Now owned ...
( Category: Beer April 5,2018 )
Stand by Me by Jim Downs
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Downs

The police raid on The Body Politic’s headquarters and the paper’s impending trial for “use of the mails to distribute immoral, indecent or scurrilous material” made news across the gay ...
( Category: LGBT April 5,2018 )
A Shadow on the Household by Bryan Prince
epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Bryan Prince [Prince, Bryan]

Cornelia Williams blossomed in freedom, eventually marrying a Civil War veteran. Together they raised a large family of their own, as seen in this photograph from the late 1880s. (courtesy ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2018 )
Postcards from the End of America by Linh Dinh
epub |eng | 2016-02-18 | Author:Linh Dinh

FRACKING WILLISTON 7-15-14—Oil made this America-dominated, futuristic world, and with its increasing scarcity, will unravel it. Most pampered yet most disappointed, we’re living in the age of peak oil, water, ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
Devil Wins by Denery Dallas G. II;
epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Denery, Dallas G., II;

FROM LIES TO CIVILITY With their advocacy of the well-timed lie, the pious fraud, and just hypocrisy, both John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan completed the intellectual journey from ...
( Category: Philosophy April 5,2018 )
The Battle For History by John Keegan
epub |eng | 1995-05-06 | Author:John Keegan [Keegan, John]

CHAPTER FIVE THE BRAINS AND SINEWS OF WAR WAR, THOUGH ULTIMATELY ABOUT FIGHTING, is also about planning where and when to fight, and disguising one’s intentions from the enemy while ...
( Category: Military April 5,2018 )
A. Philip Randolph by Andrew E. Kersten
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Andrew E. Kersten [Kersten, Andrew E.]

A. Philip Randolph (right) and Grant Reynolds (left) testify before the Senate Armed Serves Committee, 1948, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-128074. Randolph always had collaborators: ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 5,2018 )
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Marriott [Marriott, Emma]

OCEANIA EUROPEAN DISCOVERIES OF THE PACIFIC LANDS The islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean had been settled by the Polynesians (who may have originally come from Indonesia) between ...
( Category: World April 5,2018 )

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