epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Mary Jennings Hegar

* * * The rotation at TK was rough. Even when we thought we had done some good, things could go bad very quickly. One night we were called out ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-11 | Author:Candlewick Press

By the time we reached Saigon, my mother was running out of money, we were all ill, and we were all living on my Cow & Gate baby food — ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Jeff Fleischer

Chapter 4 Voting (with Confidence) By now you know a bit more about the United States government, the parties and officials who represent it, and the process for how elections ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Deem, James M.

This typical flyer printed by the Independence Front encouraged Belgians to help Hitler send his troops over the cliff and into the precipice. ▪ ▪ ▪ By eight o’clock on ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:William Gurstelle

Chapter 7 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and the Chemistry of Fireproofing Before homes were electrified, there was a very real danger of clothing catching on fire from the lamps and cooking ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Williams

Christian - Buddhist monastic interchange In recent years there has been close and valuable interchange between Christian and Buddhist monasteries. Abbot Christopher Jamison of Worth Abbey observes that ‘the monastic ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Settle

11 Strike Two For a while, I hung around Lackland, awaiting an opening at one of the schools. The break in my orders was long enough that they decided to ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

John Marshall Harlan. With the presidential nomination of Ulysses Grant, however, Harlan’s views changed once more. He had known Grant during the war and respected his toughness and commitment to ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Gupta, Subhadra Sen [Gupta, Subhadra Sen]

The ruin of our crafts The British rule was the time when our crafts, especially that of the weavers, faced a planned assault from the East India Company. This was ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edith Wilmot-Buxtun [Wilmot-Buxtun, Edith]

The Story of Dandolo the Blind Doge; or, The Fourth and Fifth Crusades Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo! Th'octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe. BYRON: Childe Harold. Richard ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Hendrik Willem Van Loon [Loon, Hendrik Willem Van]

CHAPTER VI VAN NOORT CIRCUMNAVIGATES THE WORLD Oliver van Noort was the first Hollander to sail around the world. Incidentally, he was the fourth navigator to succeed in this dangerous ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

Alfred the Great King from 871-901 A.D. I THE Danes were neighbors of the Norwegian Vikings, and like them were fond of the sea and piracy. They plundered the English ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Evans, Lawton B. [Evans, Lawton B.]

Benjamin Franklin BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was the youngest member of a family of seventeen children. His father was a poor man, who made his living by boiling soap and making candles. ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:James McMullan

The Russian Artist I HAD NEVER EXHIBITED ANY OF MY FATHER’S MUSICALITY, but it turned out that I had a good ear for spoken accents. I also had an accommodating ...

epub |eng | | Author:Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The freedmen’s school depicted here was burned in the Memphis, Tennessee, riot of May 2, 1866. Similar burnings and other atrocities against teachers occurred throughout the Reconstruction period. Harper’s Weekly, ...