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A Few Good Women by Evelyn Monahan; Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Monahan; Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Senator Margaret Chase Smith in her Air Force Reserve uniform. It was VADM Louis E. Denfeld who approached Representative Smith and asked for her help in arguing and shepherding HB ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives Under Enemy Fire From Valley Forge to Afghanistan by Scott Mcgaugh
mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Scott Mcgaugh

Caspar Wistar and most physician’s assistants in the Revolutionary War were volunteers with little or no medical training. Some became doctors after the war in an era when there were ...
( Category: History September 5,2017 )
Holy War: How Vasco Da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations by Nigel Cliff
mobi |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Nigel Cliff

PART III CRUSADE CHAPTER 14 THE ADMIRAL OF INDIA ONCE AGAIN SEA biscuit was baked, barrels of wine rolled along gangplanks, and the banners, standards, and crosses fluttered in the ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War a Memoir by Leymah Gbowee
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Leymah Gbowee

CHAPTER 13 STANDING UP TO CHARLES TAYLOR AND SITTING DOWN FOR PEACE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS were scheduled to take place in Liberia in 2003, but with Taylor under attack from LURD ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Klarman Michael J
mobi |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Klarman, Michael J. [Klarman, Michael J.]

In 1954, the Court played a vanguard role in school desegregation. Half of the nation supported Brown from the day it was decided, but it was the justices who had ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures September 5,2017 )
Byzantium by Judith Herrin
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Judith Herrin

17 Imperial Children, ‘Born in the Purple’ In 1044, the Byzantines protested against Constantine IX’s mistress, Maria Skleraina, and demanded to see the real empresses. ‘We don’t want the Skleraina ...
( Category: Europe September 5,2017 )
Scourge of Henry VIII by Melanie Clegg
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Melanie Clegg

Marie seems to have had doubts about the cause of her sons’ deaths, probably inflamed by court gossip and James’s naturally suspicious nature, which had fixated on some anomaly in ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
Morbid Curiosity by Alan W. Petrucelli
epub |eng | 2009-12-04 | Author:Alan W. Petrucelli [Petrucelli, Alan W.]

Animal Planet CREATURE DISCOMFORTS Are You Sure This Is Crunchy Peanut Butter? JUMBO (1861-1885) the thirteen-foot tall elephant had quite the circus career thanks to all of P. T. Barnum’s ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts September 5,2017 )
The Crusades: The World's Debate by Hilaire Belloc
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Hilaire Belloc [Belloc, Hilaire]

VIII THE THREE KINGS The situation of the Crusade after the capture of Jerusalem was fantastic. There was no occupation of territory; there were no lines of communication; if you ...
( Category: Europe September 5,2017 )
Raven by Reiterman Tim
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Reiterman, Tim

One day late in 1976, Marshall Kilduff of the San Francisco Chronicle got to talking about Jones with some fellow observers of the Housing Authority scene. He, an Examiner reporter ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts September 5,2017 )
Victory in World War II by Cawthorne Nigel
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Cawthorne, Nigel [Cawthorne, Nigel]

Into the Ruhr On 12 April General Gerow took the coal basin of the Ruhr. Two days later the Ruhr pocket was split in two. Army Group B surrendered, delivering ...
( Category: Military September 5,2017 )
Victory In World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
epub |eng | 2017-07-30 | Author:Nigel Cawthorne [Cawthorne, Nigel]

Into the Ruhr On 12 April General Gerow took the coal basin of the Ruhr. Two days later the Ruhr pocket was split in two. Army Group B surrendered, delivering ...
( Category: Military September 5,2017 )
Playing for Time by Fania Fenelon
epub |eng | 1983-06-14 | Author:Fania Fenelon [Fenelon, Fania]

I never got used to these jokes, which drove Clara into an appalling state but which she was obliged to swallow, because she knew that she was little loved and ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
The New Deal in Old Rome by H J Haskell
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:H J Haskell [Haskell, H J]

CHAPTER VIII THE REPUBLIC COULDN’T STAND PROSPERITY IT was under the Republic that Rome marched farthest, although its expansion continued into the second century after Christ. When Cæsar came into ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 5,2017 )
Arthur Conan Doyle by The New Revelation
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:The New Revelation [Revelation, The New]

4 Problems and Limitations Leaving for a moment the larger argument as to the lines of this revelation and the broad proofs of its validity, there are some smaller points ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality September 5,2017 )

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