World
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Leaming
Nine Four weeks after Billy waded ashore in the rain from his landing craft on June 23, 1944, he could no longer pretend with Kick that their latest parting would ...
( Category:
Great Britain
June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zug, Marcia A.;
A group of female immigrants denied admission and waiting to return home. Library of Congress. Marriage also helped would-be female immigrants by protecting them from accusations of prostitution or other ...
( Category:
World
June 27,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Yeonmi Park
Thirteen A Deal with the Devil My mother had been gone for only three days when Zhifang tried to rape me. His apartment was laid out with two bedrooms separated ...
( Category:
Women in History
June 26,2016 )
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Jeffrey E. Garten
“You Haven’t Got a Hope” The first blow to Heath came not from Thatcher but from Keith Joseph, who made a decisive break in a speech saying the British government ...
( Category:
Globalization
June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott
PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category:
Political
June 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Phil Mason
Walter Hunt, a New York mechanic, invented the safety pin in 1849 in just three hours, to pay off a $15 debt. He saw no commercial value in the idea, ...
( Category:
Trivia & Fun Facts
June 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-31 | Author:Douglas Hurd
8 Vox Populi It is now possible to measure scientifically the state of public opinion about the Queen and the monarchy. In earlier centuries the ebb and flow of royal ...
( Category:
Historical
June 15,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:John Guy
5 A Second Solomon Like King Solomon, the most famous of the Old Testament patriarchs, who was said to have sat in majesty on an ivory throne and who completed ...
( Category:
Europe
June 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:Brenda Ralph Lewis [Lewis, Brenda Ralph]
His chief rivals for the papal succession were Cardinal Ascanio Sforza of Milan and Cardinal Giuliani della Rovere, the latter being bankrolled to the tune of 200,000 gold ducats by ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
June 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Ellis Peters [Peters, Ellis]
Cadfael put the thought behind him, but it did not go far. There was a certain credibility about it that he did not like at all. Tonight and for two ...
( Category:
Murder
June 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Brian Luskey [Luskey, Brian]
Home, Sweet Home Dr. Edward Dixon’s reference during the early closing movement to the clerk who moved into a “fifth-rate boarding-house” exhibited a concern shared by parents and ministers that ...
( Category:
United States
June 12,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Boykoff, Jules [Boykoff, Jules]
Vancouver 2010: “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” As the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver approached, a local artist, Jesse Corcoran, created a mural featuring the five Olympic rings encircling ...
( Category:
History & Theory
June 11,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:William N. Goetzmann [Goetzmann, William N.]
EUROPEAN COUNTERPOINT The creation of such a private company would hardly seem revolutionary from our modern vantage point. After all, private firms like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill (one public, ...
( Category:
Economic History
June 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Cashill, Jack [Cashill, Jack]
ALL IN THE FAMILY On December 30, 1970, the deal was signed for what by any objective standards loomed as the fight of the century. Twenty years earlier, sportswriters had ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
June 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-06-07 | Author:Shadi Hamid
Learning to Love the State Needless to say, the Turkish state’s insistence on French-style secularism, or laïcité, rather than the neutrality of the American model of state-church relations, was a ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
June 9,2016 )
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