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Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education by Holowchak M. Andrew
epub |eng | | Author:Holowchak, M. Andrew [M. Andrew Holowchak]

English, thus, has the capacity for greater copiousness than Greek. Having a neologism-friendly language goes beyond euphony and copiousness. It allows for utmost precision of meaning and clarity of expression. ...
( Category: Educators March 22,2020 )
The Founding Fathers on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips
epub |eng | 2001-05-14 | Author:Donald T. Phillips [PHILLIPS, DONALD T.]

THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON LEADERSHIP When outnumbered, put nothing at risk unless compelled by necessity. When confronted with an overwhelming power, wear them down, wait them out, and frustrate the ...
( Category: Leadership March 22,2020 )
Sailing into History: Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the Twentieth Century and the Crews Who Sailed Them by Boles Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Boles, Frank [Boles, Frank]

CHAPTER 5 LOADING AND UNLOADING The thing which in my judgment most influenced the change in type and size of the bulk freighters on the lakes came about through the ...
( Category: Ship History March 22,2020 )
Unfair to Genius by Rosen Gary
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Rosen, Gary

The NAB conceded that the performing rights provisions of the copyright law, although conceived long before the advent of broadcasting, were at least “ambiguous” as applied to radio.28 It had ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Manila And Santiago by Leeke Jim;
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Leeke, Jim; [Leeke, Jim]

CHAPTER 14 The Crossing ADMIRAL SAMPSON got word of the Spanish fleet’s departure from St. Vincent the following day, April 30, on the blockade line off Havana. He rightly surmised ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Lincoln Steffens by Justin Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Kaplan

CHAPTER ELEVEN Winds of Change I “T HE DAYS ARE WONDERFUL AND the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant,” Gertrude Stein wrote in “Portrait of Mabel Dodge at ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Engineering Eden by Jordan Fisher Smith
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

about three weeks after the discovery of the blanket with the scalp, a park visitor reported finding an abandoned camp in the same area. Ranger Tom Cherry was dispatched to ...
( Category: Conservation March 22,2020 )
The Birth of Modern Politics by Parsons Lynn Hudson;
epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Parsons, Lynn Hudson;

Upon his return to Tennessee in the spring of 1826 Senator Eaton hand-delivered a letter addressed to Jackson. “An issue has been fairly made . . . between power and ...
( Category: Elections March 22,2020 )
The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine & Lisa McCubbin
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Gerald Blaine & Lisa McCubbin

13 Breakdown Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —JOHN F. KENNEDY NOVEMBER 22, 1963 There are moments in history that change the world forever. Time ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (Four Women Undercover in the Civil War) by Karen Abbott
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Karen Abbott

Emma spent her days delivering messages to and from Union commanders. Riding along the bank of the river, she saw the rebel batteries frowning on the heights beyond the city ...
( Category: Espionage March 22,2020 )
We're Still Here by Jennifer M. Silva
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Jennifer M. Silva

“I Ain’t Got No Quit Button” For George, a twenty-six-year-old black man, suffering crystallizes his identity and makes him even stronger. George asks me to give him the pseudonym of ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 22,2020 )
The America We Deserve by Donald Trump
epub |eng | 2018-11-10 | Author:Donald Trump

( Category: Comparative Politics March 22,2020 )
A Bomb in Every Issue by Peter Richardson
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Richardson [Richardson, Peter]

7 THE BATTLE’S CONFUSION As the nation lurched into the summer of 1968, the Democratic Party wasn’t doing any better than the magazine. Antiwar activists were thrilled when President Johnson ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 22,2020 )
Reagan, In His Own Hand by Kiron K. Skinner
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Kiron K. Skinner

Tax Loopholes May 1975 Hang on to your pocketbooks in Wash., they’re talking tax reform again. I’ll be right back. From time to time I’m going to talk about loopholes ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
America the Ingenious by Kevin Baker
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Kevin Baker

Building Backward Steel-Frame Construction Chicago’s New York Life Building, the first true skyscraper, and today a four-star hotel. They began to rise out of the prairie by Lake Michigan: buildings ...
( Category: History of Technology March 22,2020 )

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