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American Connections by James Burke
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
Ditch of Dreams by Steven Noll & David Tegeder
epub |eng | 2009-03-15 | Author:Steven Noll & David Tegeder

6 Floating Logs, Dying Trees, and Clogging Weeds During his legendary campaign for the United States Senate in 1970, Lawton Chiles walked the length of the state to take the ...
( Category: Environmental March 16,2020 )
Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2018-11-25 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation As foreshadowing the course I later, as President, followed in this matter, I give extracts from one of my letters to the Commission, and from my second (and last) ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
Nuthin' but a "G" Thang by Eithne Quinn
epub |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Eithne Quinn

( Category: African-American Studies March 16,2020 )
Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn by Jan Whitaker
epub |eng | 2019-03-24 | Author:Jan Whitaker

TEA ROOM IN THE COPLEY-PLAZA HOTEL IN BOSTON, AROUND 1915. Evidently the Plaza met the requirements of at least one discerning British visitor in 1913. (Tea was something British tourists ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 16,2020 )
Flying the SR-71 Blackbird by Richard H. Graham
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Richard H. Graham

Before Takeoff A large majority of the steps were merely rechecking what had been accomplished previously, but these components were considered critical enough to go over one last time. This ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 16,2020 )
Appetite for Definition by Ian King
epub |eng | 2018-09-29 | Author:Ian King

Jazz Rock Noting that it is also referred to as “jazz fusion,” Encyclopædia Britannica defines jazz rock as jazz improvisation “accompanied by the bass lines, drumming styles, and instrumentation of ...
( Category: Music March 15,2020 )
The Boys of the Dark by Robin Gaby Fisher Michael O'McCarthy Robert W. Straley
epub |eng | 2018-11-09 | Author:Robin Gaby Fisher, Michael O'McCarthy, Robert W. Straley

( Category: Criminology March 15,2020 )
Daniel Boone by John Abbott
epub |eng | | Author:John Abbott

* * * CHAPTER VIII. ~ Captivity and Flight. HEROISM OF THOMAS HIGGINS AND of Mrs. Pursley.—Affairs at Boonesborough.—Continued Alarms.—Need of Salt.—Its Manufacture.—Indian Schemes.—Capture of Boone and twenty-seven men.—Dilemma of ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 15,2020 )
The Young Lords by Fernández Johanna;
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Fernández, Johanna;

Given the defining role that gender played in her childhood, it is no surprise that Morales refused to pander to the notion that national liberation should be privileged over women’s ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 15,2020 )
If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America by Jon Sopel
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Jon Sopel

And don’t think this is exclusively a preserve of the Republican Party. In May 2015, Hillary Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, found herself in a South Carolina bakery. She was out ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 15,2020 )
Presidents of the United States of America: A History of America's Leaders by Taylor Franklin
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Taylor, Franklin [Taylor, Franklin]

At only forty-three years of age, he was nevertheless well prepared for the job. He was well-read and well-traveled. He was an avid reader and sometimes would read up to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Mark Arax

* * * — In the winter of 1935, Edward Hyatt, the state engineer who had authored a report titled “Water Is the Life Blood of California,” sat in front ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 15,2020 )
The Candy Bombers by Andrei Cherny
epub |eng | 2008-04-16 | Author:Andrei Cherny

WHEN THE WAR ended and everyone else had headed home, Tunner remained behind, keeping his men there with him. He was consumed by a new dream of tying the nations ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 15,2020 )
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre by Matilda Sager
epub |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Matilda Sager [Sager, Matilda]

We always picked berries in the spring and summer. There was not much tame fruit—a few seedling apples. The only way we travelled was on horseback. The first printing press ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )

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