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A Short History Of Rhode Island by George Washington Greene: a Project Gutenberg eBook.

To all my brothers and sisters who served in Vietnam and to their families, I say, God Forever be with you and take care of you. So many young men and women were lost in Vietnam. So many are still suffering from the Vietnam War, but God makes no mistakes and everything is for a reason. I will never...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is...

Saving the world won't happen on the silver screen. In our fragile ecosystem, climate change is swiftly becoming the defining issue of how to prepare—and protect—the earth for the future. The climate change debate raged on in America in 2015, but the facts and the science now show irrefutably that...

A stirring profile of our 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who presided over one of the most tumultuous eras in our country’s history.   Lyndon B. Johnson’s unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision in the 1960s changed the nation. It unraveled and restitched the very fabric of the American...

The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches...

“Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving were first published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman in 1819. Since then they have been adapted and interpreted in countless ways ranging from the comical to the serious and for the very young to the adult....

The Stage-coach,: From the Sketch book by Washington Irving hardcover, 1st edition, 1st printing

Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...

Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...

A collection of short stories and essays by Washington, written while he was based in Europe. Stories include: The Great Unknown, The Hunting Dinner, The Adventure of My Uncle, The Adventure of My Aunt, The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather, The Adventure of the German Student,...

The quintessential American writer, Washington Irving emerged as the country's first popular author with such beloved nineteenth-century short stories as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." These highly entertaining fiction masterpieces reveal Irving's unique mastery at portraying...

"Rip Van Winkle" is Washington Irving’s famous short story of a man who falls asleep only to wake twenty years later to a changed world. -The language of almost two hundred years ago has been extensively modernized. -End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes...

When tough-on-crime laws passed 30 years ago during an era of drug-fueled violence, they were supported across the political spectrum. The subsequent “war on drugs” sent non-violent offenders to prison for decades and, in some cases, life. As a result, the nation’s prison and jail population today...