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The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
mobi, epub |spa | 2012-07-30 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

Over the next century this tune and its variations would be deployed in a succession of mostly cheesy movies, typically as an accompaniment to the sinuous emergence of a cobra ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )
It's My Country Too by Jerri Bell Tracy Crow
epub |eng | 2017-05-05 | Author:Jerri Bell, Tracy Crow [Jerri Bell, Tracy Crow]

15 November 1950 On 22 September 1950, we sailed from Yokohama on the General Mann and arrived Inchon Beach 26 September. This was our first experience in going down the ...
( Category: World March 5,2018 )
In Pursuit of Religious Freedom by Stephan Philip
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Stephan, Philip [Stephan, Philip G.]

NOTES 1 William Koepchen, “Martin Stephan and the Saxon Emigration of 1838” (unpublished ms., Stephan Family Archives and Concordia Historical Institute, 1935), 115–16. 2 Koepchen, “Martin Stephan and the Saxon ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )
The First Modern Jew by Daniel B. Schwartz
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Daniel B. Schwartz [Schwartz, Daniel B.]

V. In 1919, after the Bolshevik Revolution had brought Odessa’s “Golden Age” of Hebrew literature to an abrupt end, Klausner and his family moved to Jerusalem. With the opening of ...
( Category: World March 5,2018 )
The King's City by Don Jordan
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Don Jordan [Jordan, Don]

It was a fine silken thing which I spied walking the other day through Westminster Hall, that had as much Ribbon on him that would have plundered six shops, and ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2018 )
Jackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborrelli
epub |eng | | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli

The Philadelphia Story June 20, 1967. “I am so nervous, I can’t stand it,” Lee was saying. She was in her makeup chair backstage at the Ivanhoe Theater in Chicago. ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 5,2018 )
Stargazing by Peter Hill
epub |eng | 2004-02-15 | Author:Peter Hill [Peter Hill]

‘Robert I brought salvation to his people through the safeguarding of our liberties. Yet even the same Robert, should he turn aside from the task and yield Scotland or us ...
( Category: Memoirs March 5,2018 )
When Montezuma Met Cortés by Matthew Restall
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Matthew Restall

( Category: Politics & Government March 5,2018 )
Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Katja Petrowskaja

Germany itself is crumbling, becoming more and more unfathomable. The scraps of paper stick to my clothes and my computer keyboard, I’m carting this year all around, spreading the wealth, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 5,2018 )
Prisoners of Shangri-La by Donald S Lopez Jr
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Donald S Lopez, Jr [Donald S Lopez, Jr]

CHAPTER SIX The Field In a 1977 survey of the available Western-language scholarship on Tibetan Buddhism, the noted Sinologist Michel Strickmann identified what he perceived as a dangerous trend: “a ...
( Category: Buddhism March 5,2018 )
Jumping Over Shadows by Annette Gendler
epub |eng | 2017-02-16 | Author:Annette Gendler [Gendler, Annette]

FAIT ACCOMPLI II HARRY AND I WERE NEVER FORMALLY ENGAGED, partly because engagements were not a big deal in our circles. People did not waste time getting engaged—they got married, ...
( Category: Relationships March 5,2018 )
Daughter of Good Fortune by Chen Huiqin
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Chen Huiqin [Huiqin, Chen]

MOVING BEYOND THE ANCESTRAL COMPOUND In 1968, my cousin Zhongming, my uncle’s elder son, got married. Zhongming was working as a Chinese violinist in the Beijing Opera Troupe in Shanghai. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 5,2018 )
The Triumph of Christianity by Bart D. Ehrman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONVERSION First, it is important to consider several matters of demographics. The vast bulk of the ancient population comprised lower classes. The very upper crust of the ...
( Category: History March 5,2018 )
The Crusader States by Malcolm Barber
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Barber [Barber, Malcolm]

CHAPTER 12 The Battle of Hattin and its Consequences WHEN Patriarch Eraclius returned to Jerusalem in July 1185, he cannot have been surprised to learn of the death of Baldwin ...
( Category: Middle East March 5,2018 )
A Journey to the Northern Ocean by Samuel Hearne
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Samuel Hearne [Hearne, Samuel]

CHAPTER 8 January 9th, 1772 to June 29th, 1772 Transactions and Remarks from our Arrival on the South Side of the Athapuscow Lake, till our Arrival at Prince of Wales’s ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )

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