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Mochi's War by Enss Chris
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Enss, Chris

Colonel Chivington disagreed with Bishop Whipple and maintained that the United States Army needed to “enact God’s justice.” According to an interview Chivington’s third wife, Isabella, did with historian Fred ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Wicked Women by Enss Chris
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Enss, Chris

Kate Horony The Hungarian Madam “It’s laughable how some people will talk. I laugh at how often I turn up dead and buried.” Big Nose Kate, 1883 Kate Horony pulled ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
Many Loves of Buffalo Bill by Enss Chris
epub |eng | | Author:Enss, Chris

Because the rugged frontier settlements where the Codys lived had no schools, William sent Arta and Irma away to boarding school when they were old enough. However, Louisa didn’t allow ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
Raquela by Ruth Gruber
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Ruth Gruber

SEVENTEEN FEBRUARY 4, 1948 Lili burst into the maternity hut. “Raquela, a sailor handed me this newspaper. He said Captain Gee got it from someone who just flew in from ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 24,2017 )
Rodmoor by John Cowper Powys
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:John Cowper Powys [John Cowper Powys]

XVIII BANK-HOLIDAY IT was nearly two o’clock in the afternoon when Nance woke out of a heavy dreamless sleep. She went to the window. The shops in the little street ...
( Category: World August 24,2017 )
True Summit by David Roberts
epub |eng | | Author:David Roberts

SEVEN The Meditation of Rébuffat WITH THE TEAM MEMBERS bound by their contract to publish no account of the expedition for five years after its conclusion, it would seem that ...
( Category: Mountaineering August 24,2017 )
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

* * * *1 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled ...
( Category: World August 24,2017 )
The World of Indigenous North America by The World of Indigenous North America (2015)
epub |eng | 2014-12-05 | Author:The World of Indigenous North America (2015)

In one of Samson Occom’s sermons in Bristol in the 1770s, he spoke of a natural human resistance to the Bible, and the importance of supernatural inspiration in receiving the ...
( Category: Americas August 24,2017 )
Conquistadors by Michael Wood
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Wood

5 EL DORADO THE JOURNEY OF FRANCISCO ORELLANA Many nations have excelled others and overcome them, and the few have conquered the many. They say Alexander the Great with thirty-three ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2017 )
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
epub |eng | 2005-06-20 | Author:Mahmood Mamdani [Mamdani, Mahmood]

But the absence of a stated CIA objective did not mean a lack of a clear CIA preference. Ironically, this objective was so central to U.S. policy that it led ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 24,2017 )
Grace Kelly by James Spada & James Spada
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:James Spada & James Spada [Spada, James]

CLICK FOR CHAPTER 12 ENDNOTES 12 Contrary to general belief, a Monegasque prince’s heir need not be male. CHAPTER THIRTEEN The eight-day voyage of the Constitution from New York to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 24,2017 )
Jessie's Journey by Jess Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Jess Smith [Smith, Jess]

19 THE LIVING NIGHTMARE That was a braw summer’s jaunt in the old bus. Why the others were hankering after a house beats me. Back at Crieff, though, this is ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 24,2017 )
The Story of England by Michael Wood
epub |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Michael Wood

Man be ware and be no fool; Thinke upon the ax, and of the stool! The revolt had unleashed savage class antagonisms and exposed deep fissures between the rulers and ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2017 )
The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali
epub |eng | 2017-04-29 | Author:Tariq Ali

10 The Third International For most of September and October 1917, it appeared that Lenin saw the success of the October Revolution mainly as a springboard for revolutions throughout Europe. ...
( Category: World August 24,2017 )
Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Timothy Brook

DEKKER WAS NOT WRONG IN supposing that tobacco would soon spread “amongst all nations,” especially in Asia. He prophesied a little too early to know that China would become the ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 24,2017 )

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