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Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Elizabeth Kerri Mahon [Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri]

Carry Nation 1846-1911 Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things. —CARRY NATION Both repellent and fascinating, this hatchet-swinging, Bible-thumping, God-appointed vigilante swung through Midwestern saloons, smashing ...
( Category: Women in History September 7,2017 )
Scheisshaus Luck by Pierre Berg; Brian Brock
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Pierre Berg; Brian Brock [Brock, Pierre Berg; Brian]

P A R T I I I THE DEATH MARCH This page intentionally left blank C H A P T E R 1 6 The first columns of Ha¨ftlinge began ...
( Category: World September 7,2017 )
Uncovering the Truth About Meriwether Lewis by Thomas C. Danisi
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Thomas C. Danisi

33. GILBERT RUSSELL TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, JANUARY 4, 1810, FORT PICKERING, CHICKASAW BLUFFS31 Concerning it a duty encumbered upon me to give the friends of the late Meriwether Lewis such ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 7,2017 )
100 Headlines That Changed the World by James Maloney
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Maloney [Maloney, James]

21 DEAD 7 MANCHESTER UTD PLAYERS PERISH IN AIR CRASH (Daily Sketch, 7 February 1958) THEY WERE THE DREAM TEAM. The ‘Busby Babes’ – a nickname derived from their manager’s ...
( Category: World September 7,2017 )
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Will & Ariel Durant

intellectual liberty? Has all the progress of philosophy since Descartes been a mistake through its failure to recognize the role of myth in the consolation and control of man? "He ...
( Category: World September 7,2017 )
The Great American Steamboat Race by Patterson Benton Rain
epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Patterson, Benton Rain [Patterson, Benton Rain]

•9• The Hard-Working Life William Wells Brown was born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1814 and when he was in his twenties, he worked aboard the Mississippi River steamboats ...
( Category: Americas September 6,2017 )
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Margo Jefferson [Jefferson, Margo]

THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, More deliberate. CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Solemnly chanted. “Be careful what you do, All the o sounds ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 6,2017 )
The Russian Revolution by McMeekin Sean;
epub |eng | | Author:McMeekin, Sean;

Dzerzhinsky’s Cheka was also tasked with containing the political fallout from the recent national parliamentary elections (conducted on November 12, it had taken until the end of the month for ...
( Category: Russia September 6,2017 )
1742233929 (H) by Henry Reynolds
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Henry Reynolds [Reynolds, Henry]

5 What was at stake? The historical significance of any war is not determined by the way it was fought or the number of consequent casualties but by the reason ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania September 6,2017 )
The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar by Judge Michael
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Judge, Michael [Judge, Michael]

In Europe (a friend tells me that Italy is infected with the practice), England, and America, the custom of April fooling continues to this day. In Scotland, the victim of ...
( Category: Physics September 6,2017 )
Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Kurt Andersen

* * * *1 The host, Diana Paxson, became a successful author of fantasy fiction—and fantasy nonfiction, such as Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide to Using Runes in ...
( Category: Economics September 6,2017 )
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Quigley Carroll
mobi, epub |eng | 1966-11-15 | Author:Quigley, Carroll [Quigley, Carroll]

( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 6,2017 )
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Del Quentin Wilber [Wilber, Del Quentin]

IN THE SITUATION Room, the secretary of state was becoming increasingly agitated. As other officials discussed how to properly calibrate the administration’s public statements or worried about the gunman’s potential ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2017 )
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Worsley Lucy
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Worsley, Lucy [Worsley, Lucy]

25 – Sitting Comfortably The common sitting room [is] an Englishman’s delight to show his wealth. Robert Southey, 1807 At the heart of living-room life is the chair: whether for ...
( Category: Europe September 6,2017 )
William Tyndale by David Daniell
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:David Daniell

At this point the manuscript breaks off. It has been argued that Henry was exceedingly angry, to the point of tearing the paper so that there is no more. That ...
( Category: World September 6,2017 )

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