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Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Janet Dewart Bell

Ella Baker’s Influence Ella Baker was amazing. I’ll say to teachers, “You may never know the impact you’re making on some of your students.” Because for me, Ms. Baker was ...
( Category: World May 8,2018 )
Milk! by Mark Kurlansky
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Kurlansky

With an abundant availability of factory-made American cheeses that melted well, America developed a melted-cheese cuisine—cheeseburgers, grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese—that became quintessentially American. But melted-cheese cooking was not new, ...
( Category: Cooking by Ingredient May 8,2018 )
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2018-04-01 | Author:Simon Winchester

The tube and the assembly around it had been manufactured in a Rolls-Royce plant, Hucknall Casings and Structures, sometime in the spring of 2009. In normal circumstances, it would have ...
( Category: Experiments, Instruments & Measurement May 8,2018 )
The Lost Pilots by Corey Mead
epub |eng | | Author:Corey Mead

14 A TERRIBLE THING Haden Clarke received no comfort from the letters he and Jessie wrote Lancaster. He lived in fear that Lancaster and Jessie’s love would reassert itself upon ...
( Category: World May 8,2018 )
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan
epub |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Tim Pat Coogan [Coogan, Tim Pat]

TEN THE POOR LAW COMETH “Neither ancient nor modern history can furnish a parallel to the fact that upwards of 3 millions of persons were fed every day in the ...
( Category: Europe May 7,2018 )
An American Quilt by Rachel May
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel May

The wooden crosses that once marked the graves have disintegrated, and all we know now is that the people who are buried there are of African American descent, and that ...
( Category: World May 7,2018 )
Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists by Margo Goodhand
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Margo Goodhand

CHAPTER 10 VANCOUVER – A HOME BASE AT LAST B.C.’S NEW HUMAN RESOURCES minister Norm Levi was besieged by women in his first year in office. By all accounts, he ...
( Category: World May 6,2018 )
Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Aanchal Malhotra

In comparison, I thought about the piece of paper that officiated the division of the country. Documents were often seen as powerful instruments of change, depending on the conditions they ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 6,2018 )
Joy Unspeakable by Barbara A. Holmes
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Barbara A. Holmes [Holmes, Barbara]

Ibid., citing C. H. Brömel, Fest-Tantze der ersten Christen (Jena, 1703), English translation in E. Louis Backman, Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine, trans. E. Classen ...
( Category: Theology May 6,2018 )
Marx and Marxism by Claeys Gregory
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Claeys, Gregory

Then came the revolutions so long anticipated. In 1904–5 a general strike in St Petersburg, naval mutinies at Kronstadt and Sebastopol, and the creation of the first Duma (assembly) apparently ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 6,2018 )
Diary of a Wartime Affair by Doreen Bates
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Doreen Bates

SUNDAY 17 APRIL Wyndham is home with acute rheumatism in his back. It is very painful to move and he was reduced to staying in bed all the time. THURSDAY ...
( Category: World May 6,2018 )
Clarissa--Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Samuel Richardson

Letter 207: MR LOVELACE TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. Thursday, May 25 Now have I a foundation to go upon in my terms. My lord, in the exuberance of his generosity, ...
( Category: Classics May 5,2018 )
Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus by Paul Williams
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Paul Williams

Here Custer’s brother-in-law, Lieutenant James Calhoun with Company L, fought a rear-guard action, with Captain Myles Keogh’s Company I held in support immediately to his north along the ridge. Lieutenant ...
( Category: Americas May 5,2018 )
Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Peter B. Golden [Golden, Peter B.]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Later Chinggisids, Temür, and the Timurid Renaissance In the fragmenting Chinggisid world, Mongols were a privileged minority, one increasingly assimilated by their subjects. As al-’Umarî, an Arab ...
( Category: Asia May 5,2018 )
Christianity: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Woodhead
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Linda Woodhead

13. Albi Cathedral, France (1277–1512) Reformation churches Given the Catholic Church’s love of unity, the division brought about by the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century was a disaster. The ...
( Category: Theology May 5,2018 )

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