Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln are the recollections of F.B. Carpenter, a painter. He published these memoirs in 1866.

There's little comfort in the wise.Rupert Brooke.Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde / To SIGOURNEY FAYAmory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago ...

Welcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in!QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history. Celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes and marvel at their bad taste in clothes.Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women, Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed, Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cig...

Brian Wilson is one of the original Beach Boys members and is most well known for his genius in song writing. Brian, along with his two brothers Dennis and Carl, were teenagers in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. They formed a band with their cousin Mike Love and high school friend Al Jardine, a band which would later take the nation by storm with their passionate surf songs and California dreams. Fueled by waves, girls, and sports cars, The Beach Boys became famous in the sixties for the...

The Life of Nelson has been written so often, that an explanation—almost an apology—seems due for any renewal of the attempt; but, not to mention the attractiveness of the theme in itself, it is essential to the completeness and rounding off of the author's discussion of the Influence of Sea Power, that he present a study, from his own point of view, of the one man who in himself summed up and embodied the greatness of the possibilities which Sea Power comprehends,—the man for whom genius ...

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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear, distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personages who have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated as leaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken in the public affairs of great nations, have exerted the widest influence on the history of the human race. The end which the auth...

The North Ionian eAlmanac is perfect for anyone on a sailing holiday in Greece. It coveers all the Ionian harbours and anchoarges from the Faraway Islands north of Corfu to Lefkas Island in the south and includes Paxos, the Epirus Coast and Amvrakikos Gulf.This pilot guide to greek waters contains a massive amount of information on individual harbous and anchoarges and includes a crusing companion which has extra information about all the places and surroundings.The North I...

While you are trying to do your best for all those around you, do not forget that you also have a duty towards forms of life lower than the human....Charles Webster Leadbeater was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church.Originally a priest of the Church of England, his interest inspiritualism caused him to end his affiliation with Anglicanism in favour of the Theosophica...

When Lincoln took office as President of the United States, the nation was fraught with problems, not the least of which was slavery and the danger of secession. This biography relates how Lincoln dealt with the problems with thought and wisdom. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled th...

We know That an evil man called Yazid, seized the Islamic government at its dawn and Hossein (p.b.u.h), and other superior personalities of the Prophet (s.a.w) household, endeavored to save Islam and the Muslims, and also Yazid prohibited water to a group of his followers and finally killed all of them without giving their thirsty lips water, We also know the Prophet (s.a.w) himself, introduced Hussain, his daughter's Fatemeh's son as the reviver of his religion, and considered him a life ...

If you've ever wanted to master this exquisite art‚ you'll find this detailed manual provides all the instructional guidance you'll need to make delicate and elegant crocheted pieces.Although many may say that Irish crochet is a dying art‚ it's still a wonderful skill to master for those that love to create fine works of art from fine threads."Irish Crochet And How To Make It" is from the Priscilla crochet collection‚ and has been translated to today's modern English so tha...