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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Mimi Alford [Alford, Mimi]

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Oberdorfer Don & Carlin Robert
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Oberdorfer, Don & Carlin, Robert [Oberdorfer, Don]

Justifying his action on the need for national unity to confront the North in talks, South Korean president Park Chung Hee declares martial law in October 1972 to crush all ...
( Category: Asia April 7,2018 )
The Legacy of Mesoamerica by Gossen Gary H. Gasco Janine Carmack Robert M
epub |eng | | Author:Gossen, Gary H.,Gasco, Janine,Carmack, Robert M.

U.S. MEDDLING AND OTHER ANTECENDENTS TO THE MODERN ERA U.S. interference in the affairs of Mexico and Central America has a long history, extending back to the last decades of ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade by William J. Ashworth
epub |eng | 2017-01-25 | Author:William J. Ashworth [Ashworth, William J.]

Figure 6 ‘Carding, drawing and roving cotton’, c. 1830. It was also the case that the nature of raw cotton made it ideal, compared to wool and other fibres, to ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 7,2018 )
Holocaust Survivors in Canada by Adara Goldberg
epub |eng | 2015-09-18 | Author:Adara Goldberg

CHAPTER EIGHT THE FINAL MOVEMENT: ISRAELI TRANSMIGRANTS AND OTHER “LATE ARRIVALS” Before the Holocaust, Morris Faintuch never gave much thought to Palestine. A Polish Jew, Faintuch spent the war years ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 by Jens Gieseke
epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:Jens Gieseke [Gieseke, Jens]

From the Berlin Wall to CSCE With the building of the Berlin Wall, the fate of fundamental resistance to the GDR was sealed once and for all. The collectivization of ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 7,2018 )
One hundred summers: a Kiowa calendar record by Candace S Greene
epub |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Candace S Greene [Greene, Candace S]

The second picture of a pipe with red bowl and wrappings is explained by Hauvahte’s calendar as a peace pipe the Kiowas gave to a Comanche named Dry Shoulder, perhaps ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 7,2018 )
Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King by Audrey Truschke
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Audrey Truschke [Truschke, Audrey]

CHAPTER 6 Overseer of Hindu Religious Communities Protector of Temples [Ellora] is one of the finely crafted marvels of the real, transcendent Artisan [i.e., God]. —Aurangzeb describing the Hindu, Jain, ...
( Category: Asia April 7,2018 )
The Midwife's Tale by Billie Hunter
epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Billie Hunter

Elizabeth C. was the only interviewee who mentioned the ‘safe period’. Possibly she was remembering a later time in her midwifery career, since it is questionable how much accurate information ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle
epub |eng | 2011-08-06 | Author:Anne Noggle

Junior Lieutenant Antonina Pugachova-Makarova, navigator 1a5th Regiment Pe-2 crew preparing for a flight I was born in 1924. When I was a child I dreamed of becoming a pilot, but ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
The ACLU vs. America by Craig Osten
epub |eng | 2009-11-07 | Author:Craig Osten

* Planned Parenthood earned an estimated $104 million from its surgical abortion business alone in 2004. See http://www.discoverthenetworks.org. *In an ADF prayer letter, Alan wrote: “The justice who ‘discovered’ this ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Spirit Possession and the Origins of Christianity by Stevan Davies
epub |eng | 2014-12-18 | Author:Stevan Davies [Davies, Stevan]

Mary Ann Tolbert concludes that parables straddle the border between the illustrative and the representational. Blending the mimetic and the symbolic, the fractured realism of the parables encourages the interpreter ...
( Category: History April 7,2018 )
Introduction to the History of Christianity by Dowley Tim
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Dowley, Tim

Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was largely responsible for shaping the Protestant Church of England. Born at Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, and educated at Cambridge University, he remained a quiet scholar until ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Almost Human by Lee Berger
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Lee Berger

17 The next day, October 6, I sat at my kitchen table looking at the job advertisement I had typed out on my laptop. It was fairly straightforward, a basic ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 7,2018 )
What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Mark Mazower

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Highgate A strong Russian connection has attached itself to Highgate over the years. Guryev, a phosphates magnate, is reportedly the current owner of the mansion that stands at ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )

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