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Hello, Everybody! by Anthony Rudel
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Rudel [Rudel, Anthony]

OCTOBER 7, 1927—Lined up outside the Warner Theatre in New York City, crowds of movie fans hoped to get a ticket to the world premiere of The Jazz Singer. Sensing ...
( Category: Radio March 9,2020 )
The Affirmative Action Puzzle by Melvin I. Urofsky
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Melvin I. Urofsky

* * * — THE NEW LAW SATISFIED no one. On the one hand, several provisions regarding the ability and willingness of employers to have special programs for women and ...
( Category: Human Resources March 9,2020 )
AP® U.S. History Crash Course, For the 2020 Exam, Book + Online by Larry Krieger
epub |eng | 2019-03-08 | Author:Larry Krieger

Recent APUSH exams have used excerpts from the Populist Party platform and a political cartoon as stimulus sources to generate a number of multiple-choice questions. It is important to remember ...
( Category: Assessment March 9,2020 )
A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution by David Head
azw3 |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:David Head [Head, David]

While Washington was writing to Boudinot, Jones, and Hamilton, he received more unpleasant news. A new anonymous publication had appeared in camp, demonstrating that Monday’s letter could not have come ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
The Battle of April 19, 1775 by Frank Warren Coburn
epub |eng | 2019-05-23 | Author:Frank Warren Coburn [Coburn, Frank Warren]

PERCY'S RETREAT THROUGH ARLINGTON. BATTLE ROAD THROUGH ARLINGTON AND CAMBRIDGE. 1. Capt. Benj. Locke. 2. Tuft's Tavern. 3. Adams. 4. Russell. 5. Percy's Baggage Wagons Captured. 6. Adams. 7. Cooper ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Those Damned Rebels by Michael Pearson
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Michael Pearson [MICHAEL PEARSON]

National Portrait Gallery, London ADMIRAL LORD RICHARD HOWE National Portrait Gallery, London CHARLES, EARL CORNWALLIS National Portrait Gallery, London MAJOR GENERAL JOHN BURGOYNE National Portrait Gallery, London LORD FREDERICK NORTH ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Directions for Cookery by Eliza Leslie
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Eliza Leslie

PRESERVED APPLES. Take fine ripe pippin or bell-flower apples. Pare and core them, and either leave them whole, or cut them into quarters. Weigh them, and to each pound of ...
( Category: U.S. Regional March 9,2020 )
The Story of Waterloo Village by John R. Giles
epub |eng | 2019-04-30 | Author:John R. Giles

( Category: History March 9,2020 )
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild

12 I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier From what seemed a safe distance, Americans intently followed the war’s opening moves. New York crowds flocked to Times Square ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Birds of the West Indies by Raffaele Herbert A.;
epub |eng | 2003-03-08 | Author:Raffaele, Herbert A.;

JAMAICAN TODY Todus todus 9cm (3.5in). Tiny; chunky; bright green above; red throat; long, broad reddish bill. Flanks pink; abdomen and sides of breast pale yellow. VOICE: Almost silent during ...
( Category: Ornithology March 9,2020 )
Prostitution in the Gilded Age by Kevin Murphy
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-04-05 | Author:Kevin Murphy

Impatience dogged Billy West. Instead of sitting back and waiting for patrons to appear, he went out to promote his business. West walked up into Statehouse Square and took a ...
( Category: United States March 8,2020 )
Hollywood Hypocrites by Jason Mattera
epub |eng | | Author:Jason Mattera

Is Hollywood blatantly racist for not including a more diverse set of actors, actresses, and movies among the Oscar nominees? My strong guess is that privately, people are fuming at ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 8,2020 )
Forts of the American Revolution 1775-83 by René Chartrand
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:René Chartrand

A plan of the American assaults on Quebec City during the night of December 31, 1775, from Histoire du Canada (1915). Four columns exit the American camp (Camp des Américains) ...
( Category: United States March 8,2020 )
Words from the White House by Paul Dickson
epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Paul Dickson

The city in Wisconsin and the avenue in Manhattan were both named for Madison in 1836, the year he died. MUCKRAKER. Someone who searches out and makes public corruption by ...
( Category: United States March 8,2020 )
The Track in the Forest by Bob Burns
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Bob Burns

12 Take Your Marks When the starter’s pistol finally echoed through the trees in earnest, the final trials didn’t exactly roar out of the blocks. The first two days—September 6 ...
( Category: Olympic Games March 8,2020 )

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