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Smogtown by Jacobs Chip;Kelly William
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Jacobs, Chip;Kelly, William

L.A.’s mind-rattling skies also fanned health and policy effects like a crop duster, as questions of physiology segued to misgivings about geography. Downwind position, another Smogtown hallmark, was economic malignancy ...
( Category: Ecology March 3,2020 )
The Whitman Massacre: A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre by Matilda Sager
mobi |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Matilda Sager

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 2,2020 )
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
mobi |eng | 2008-02-16 | Author:Michael B. Oren [Oren, Michael B.]

Ebb and Flow Saudi oil and Saudi contracts together infused fresh vitality into an American industry long wearied by massive unemployment and economic depression. The reaction of the U.S. government, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 2,2020 )
Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2013) by Scott W. Allen
epub |eng | 2014-02-07 | Author:Scott W. Allen [Allen, Scott W.]

Nearly all of the Grateful Dead’s album covers and jackets contain images and sounds for the discerning Deadhead ear and eye to unearth. On the cover of their first album, ...
( Category: Rock March 2,2020 )
The Blizzard of 88 by Mary Cable
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Mary Cable [Mary Cable]

“New Yorkers,” wrote The New York Times, “are the best-natured people in the world.” There was much good humor shown through all the blizzard’s discomforts and dangers, and much genuine ...
( Category: Weather March 2,2020 )
America 1844 by John Bicknell
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:John Bicknell

BOUND FOR TEXAS Overlanders headed for California and Oregon were not the only emigrants on the move in 1844. At the very moment that the Texas annexation debate was heating ...
( Category: History & Theory March 2,2020 )
Across the Deep Blue Sea by Odd Lovoll
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Odd Lovoll [Lovoll, Odd]

TABLE 1: Number of Norwegian Passengers Disembarking from Sailing Vessels to the Consular District of Quebec, 1850–74 The majority of Norwegian emigrants who did not travel directly from Norway left ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
Drug Lord by Terrence E. Poppa
epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Terrence E. Poppa

[ 16 ] SEARCH AND RESCUE Marco and Becky knew the Lomas de Arena river crossing like the back of their hands. A relatively safe route some fifty miles upstream ...
( Category: Criminology March 2,2020 )
Christopher Carson by John S. C Abbott
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:John S. C Abbott [Abbott, John S. C]

CHAPTER IX. The Trapper's Elysium. Trapping on the Missouri.—Attacked by the Blackfeet.—The Battle.—Persevering Hostility of the Indians.—The Trappers driven from the Country.—Repair to the North Fork.—Cheerful Encampments.—Enchanting Scene.—Village of the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 2,2020 )
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917–1945 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by David E. Johnson
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:David E. Johnson [Johnson, David E.]

( Category: Canadian March 2,2020 )
Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life (Touchstone Books) by Harris Marvin
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Harris, Marvin [Harris, Marvin]

Comparing “closet queens” to Uncle Toms among blacks, Wittman’s manifesto called upon all homosexuals to step out of the closet: To pretend to be straight sexually, or to pretend to ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 2,2020 )
American Knights by Victor Failmezger
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Victor Failmezger

Sergeant Nowak is one of the soldiers standing in the lead TD in a famous photo of M-10 tank destroyers driving around the Coliseum the morning of June 5, 1944. ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
First Entrepreneur by Edward G. Lengel
epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Edward G. Lengel

MOUNT VERNON’S MOST WELCOME VISITOR wasn’t human. His name was Royal Gift, a magnificent Spanish jackass sent by King Charles III of Spain. Washington accepted him ecstatically. For many years ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )
The Foundation of the CIA by Richard E. Schroeder
epub |eng | | Author:Richard E. Schroeder

After a few months in Charleston, Souers transferred to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he again served as district intelligence officer and staff intelligence officer to the naval commander of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 2,2020 )
The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Frances Perkins

18. LABOR AND THE CODES The NRA was a seed bed out of which many other activities and experiments grew. It was not only an administrative enterprise, but also a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )

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