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Valley Forge by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

* * * I. Wayne’s skirmish with Mawhood inadvertently sparked a conflagration that burned at the southern end of the Garden State for months. When Mawhood could not find Wayne’s ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
Reagan by Bob Spitz
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Bob Spitz

* * * — Nancy Reagan, a not-so-innocent bystander, became a victim of the backlash. She wasn’t used to being subject to criticism; she had managed to sidestep the spotlight ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett by James W. Johnson
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:James W. Johnson [Johnson, James W.]

19 The Negro League Years “The plate is the same width. The bases are the same—ninety feet apart. I’ve got to make good.” —Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was fed up ...
( Category: Regional U.S October 23,2018 )
Young Benjamin Franklin by Nick Bunker
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Nick Bunker

THE BUSY-BODY Franklin began by throwing in his lot with Andrew Bradford. The latter was still fighting the war of the almanacs against Samuel Keimer. And so he was very ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
5327 by Mark Rowe
epub |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Mark Rowe

II Businesses could hardly carry on ‘business as usual’, if what had been their markets, or source of materials, were now enemy territory. Even in Sudan, Frank Balfour soon noticed ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )
Motor City Champs by Scott Ferkovich
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Scott Ferkovich

The Tigers’ long, long, grinding baseball season, which had begun in Lakeland back in February, came down to a World Series Game Seven at Navin Field on October 9, 1934. ...
( Category: Baseball October 23,2018 )
Los Angeles by A. M. Homes
epub |eng | 2002-10-22 | Author:A. M. Homes

“Do you want to write for a TV show, do you want a staff position, because if that’s what you want, if that’s what would do it for you, if ...
( Category: Specialty Travel October 23,2018 )
Southwestern Homelands by William Kittredge
epub |eng | 2002-10-22 | Author:William Kittredge

Having bought some ears of variously colored corn, for kitchen decorations in Montana, and a brilliantly patterned red sash, Annick and I walked among ancient houses at Old Orabi, the ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 23,2018 )
Blackbeard by Craig Cabell & Graham Thomas
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Craig Cabell & Graham Thomas

An old postcard image of the Bruton Parish Church. Chapter 11 Pardon This Vaine had the impudence to send me word that he designs to burn my guard ship and ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
Founding Martyr by Christian Di Spigna
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Christian Di Spigna

On their return, in Lexington, Smith’s troops were fortunate to meet with Lord Hugh Percy’s reinforcements—he arrived from Boston with two field pieces. Percy let the beleaguered soldiers rest and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 23,2018 )
The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
epub |eng | 2003-10-22 | Author:John Bailey

Somewhat shaken after watching Grymes maul his first witness, Upton next called Madame Hemm. She was a middle-aged German woman of dour respectability, whom he felt sure would have no ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
Boat by Michael Baughman
epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Michael Baughman

That was the day I called Boat from the mainland for the first time. I didn’t call to complain about my life, or life in general, and I didn’t call ...
( Category: Parenting October 23,2018 )
Cold War by Fink Carole K.;
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Fink, Carole K.;

Vietnam The Vietnam War remained the most critical issue in US-Soviet relations. Early in the Nixon administration, the president had signaled that these could not improve without Soviet aid in ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
New York State's Covered Bridges by Bob Kane
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Bob Kane

The house adjacent to the Van Tran Bridge is the homestead of Dr. John Mott—philanthropist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and founder of the YMCA. Although the sign in ...
( Category: Photography & Video October 23,2018 )
The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness by carl johan calleman
epub |eng | 2018-10-21 | Author:carl johan calleman

Figure 7.3. The pulsewise development of democracy in the Planetary Underworld. Although many of the Days of the Planetary Underworld seem to have manifested in unpredictable and disparate events, there ...
( Category: Philosophy October 23,2018 )

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