Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Geoff Bridger

Equipmen tand its weight Shell weight Maximum range * * * 18-pdr(Mk1)1.25tons 18 lbs 6,525 yards 4.5"howitzer1.45tons 35 lbs 7,300 yards 4.7"field gun3.75tons 45lbs 10,000 yards 60-pdr(Mk1)4.5tons 60lbs 12,300 yards ...
( Category: Military September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

A classical pianist and harpsichordist, Rosalyn Tureck was Bill Buckley’s favorite performer—in any artistic medium, any genre. That was because she had been, as he put it in her eulogy, ...
( Category: Historical September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Budd Friedman [Friedman, Budd and Whetsell, Tripp]

ALAN ZWEIBEL: The Improv was Jay’s place. Case closed. Even on the menu, Budd had something called the Leno Burger, whatever the hell that was. When I was there, he ...
( Category: Humor September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fergus Bordewich

3 Humiliated in Boston and again at Christiana, the federal government was now determined to break the back of Yankee opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law, this time in the ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Neville [Richard Neville]

The cigar-chomping producer from Hollywood was ‘hiding out’ in Mayfair. ‘I’ve just produced a flop,’ he said. Until then, Judd Benarr had been flying high with a credit on an ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Peter Linebaugh [ Linebaugh, Peter]

A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows, c. 1773, by William Blake. Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition. Slave resistance was closely related to the development ...
( Category: World September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Sjoholm [Sjoholm, Barbara]

BACK IN Tórshavn, I sneaked into the guesthouse while the landlady was in the kitchen. I had half-expected my room to have been cleaned out while I was gone, but ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 20,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-21 | Author:Mark Kurlansky [Kurlansky, Mark]

In view of the strong antiabolitionist feelings throughout the country, the Democrats tried to tar the Republicans with abolitionism, and this made Lincoln and his party defensive on the slave ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-18 | Author:Authors Collective & Robin de Ruiter [Collective, Authors]

In Joly’s work two people, Machiavelli and Montesquieu, are speaking alternatingly whilst in the Protocols only one person speaks. The advocates of the forgery theory simply claim that the re-writing ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Mccullough, David [McCullough, David]

She sang three selections, beginning with the Spanish folk song “Cielito Lindo,” then an aria from Félicien David’s La Perle du Bresil, and finishing with “The Last Rose of Summer,” ...
( Category: Historical September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Donald Keene

Chapter 43 The remainder of 1891, once the excitement of the Ōtsu incident had died down, was relatively tranquil. The most important political change occurred while the czarevitch Nicholas was ...
( Category: Asia September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Barbara Mertz [Mertz, Barbara]

EGYPTIAN MAGIC Since we have just demonstrated, at some length, that we ought to try to look at the world as the Egyptians looked at it, we will have to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Allert, Tilman [Allert, Tilman]

CHAPTER SIX Devaluing the Present How did Germans come to accept the National Socialist regime? Historical approaches to this question generally focus on external conditions, the economic situation in which ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Koppel, Lily [Koppel, Lily]

Lady Bird called it “a thrilling, incredible, heart-in-the-throat moment.” She wrote about the evening in her diary, “This was one of those incredible days that would make a book.” LBJ ...
( Category: Americas September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Dick Gregory

The Killing of Black Leaders I want you to think about something. Malcolm X was killed in 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. And Fred Hampton, the ...
( Category: Americas September 18,2017 )