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Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Lila Perl

CHAPTER 6 “On the Death Train” “I don’t remember,” Marion said, “how we covered the distance of three to four miles to the railroad loading platform at the town of ...
( Category: Biographies December 3,2017 )
My Diary in Serbia by Monica M. Stanley
azw3 |eng | 1919-06-27 | Author:Monica M. Stanley [Stanley, Monica M.]

Monday, July 12, 1915. We have been busy all day packing and getting ready the roadside dispensary; this will be the chief depôt; the first dispensary will be twenty-five miles ...
( Category: World December 3,2017 )
Iced In by Chris Turney
epub |eng | 2017-08-03 | Author:Chris Turney [Turney, Chris]

The Endurance headed east out from South Georgia to try to bypass the worst of the ice before plunging south into the Weddell Sea. It didn’t work. Three days after ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 3,2017 )
Duck by Victoria de Rijke
epub |eng | | Author:Victoria de Rijke

During the period of her keeping company with Mr Sanders, [she] had received love letters, like other ladies. In the course of their correspondence Mr Sanders had often called her ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 3,2017 )
Sharpshooters: Marksmen Through The Ages by Gary Yee
epub |eng | 2017-12-03 | Author:Gary Yee

Military firearms are designed to withstand field use. In contrast, target rifles require special attentiveness by the user to ensure their reliability. Being of a nonmilitary caliber, they likely had ...
( Category: Military December 3,2017 )
A History Of Thailand by Baker Chris
epub |eng | 2014-04-25 | Author:Baker Chris [Baker Chris]

Peasants into the market Development also transformed the old paddy tracts. After 1945, international agencies were interested in expanding Thailand’s rice surplus to help feed the war-torn countries of Asia ...
( Category: Asia December 3,2017 )
All Standing by Kathryn Miles
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Miles

FERGUS FALLS, MINNESOTA MAY 1885 Jim O’Brien was playing a shell game—that much seemed clear. Nicholas had seen the evening tills, had stayed up late into the night counting the ...
( Category: Americas December 3,2017 )
The 20 Most Significant Events of the Civil War by Alan Axelrod
epub |eng | 2017-07-07 | Author:Alan Axelrod

12 July 4, 1863 Vicksburg falls to Grant Why it’s significant: The successful conclusion to Grant’s epic siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863, secured Union control of the ...
( Category: Americas December 3,2017 )
Accidental State by Hsiao-ting Lin
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Hsiao-ting Lin [Lin, Hsiao-ting]

8.1 General Douglas MacArthur met with Chiang Kai-shek and his top military brass in Taipei. MacArthur’s visit to Taiwan on July 31, 1950, boosted Nationalist morale and strengthened Chiang Kai-shek’s ...
( Category: Americas December 3,2017 )
The Progressive Era by unknow
epub |eng | 2017-10-08 | Author:unknow

Or, as a leading citizen of Boston declared, “the only way to elevate the foreign population was to make Protestants of their children.”[8] Since the cities of the North, in ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
Don't Know Much About the Civil War by Kenneth C. Davis
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-23 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis

chapter six 1863 “The Great Task Remaining” The winter was severe, the snow deep. The soldiers were discouraged. They knew that they had fought bravely but there had been mismanagement ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 2,2017 )
The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
epub |eng | 2009-09-02 | Author:Robert M. Edsel [Edsel, Robert M.]

CHAPTER 27 George Stout with His Maps Verdun, France March 6, 1945 Monuments Man George Stout looked at the battered packages, one stamped “Received in Defective Condition” by the army ...
( Category: Museum Studies & Museology December 2,2017 )
The Fly Trap by Fredrik SjÖBerg
mobi |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Fredrik SjÖBerg

( Category: Biological Sciences December 2,2017 )
Improvement of the Mind by Isaac Watts
mobi |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Isaac Watts

CHAPTER XI. OF FIXING THE ATTENTION. I. A student should labor, by all proper methods, to acquire a steady fixation of thought. Attention is a very necessary thing in order ...
( Category: Motivational December 2,2017 )
Applied Imagination - Principles and Procedures of Creative Writing by Alex Osborn
mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Alex Osborn

2. The inexplicability of illumination Modern science recognizes the productivity of illumination. Doctor Walter B. Cannon of Harvard, after 40 years in physiological research, wrote in his book entitled The ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )

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