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  How We Talk: American Regional English Today - Allan A. Metcalf - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=SsMUCl5j8X4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

  Where are you when people • go to the coast instead of the beach• tote things as well as carry them• wait on line instead of in line• get groceries in a paper sack instead of a paper bag • say things like “The baby needs picked up” and “The car needs…

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  Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front - Konstantin Pleshakov - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=QFk5BaDyhkQC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=Nikolay+Popel&source=bl&ots=7pAOhPgGmu&sig=S8nyPsY9RWTqH3-s-g

  On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack was stunning, but Stalin’s response was even more astonishing. During the invasion, the mighty Soviet…

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  Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=cZ88p_bSt1EC&pg=PA262&lpg=PA262&dq=slughorn+slogan&source=bl&ots=i1YTuk2RxI&sig=j4b1cJR2NdvG-tJ

  Did you know that cats are related etymologically to caterpillars? Or that Thomas Edison played a key role in popularizing the use of the greeting “Hello”? Or that muscles were originally mice, since a flexed biceps looks like a little rodent scurrying…

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  Planet Dog: A Doglopedia - Sandra Choron, Harry Choron - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=KuZnxSXErqUC&pg=PA20

  For some people, the world spins on a slightly different axis, and life is often dictated by a cold nose nudging for a predawn outing, a stray dog hair in your coffee, and that daily race to get home after a long day’s work and be greeted by slobbery…

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  Planet Dog: A Doglopedia - Sandra Choron, Harry Choron - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=KuZnxSXErqUC&pg=PA21

  For some people, the world spins on a slightly different axis, and life is often dictated by a cold nose nudging for a predawn outing, a stray dog hair in your coffee, and that daily race to get home after a long day’s work and be greeted by slobbery…

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  Tales from the Perilous Realm - J.R.R. Tolkien - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=VNsf8Pmd6AEC&pg=PT195

  Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien’s four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time. This new,…

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  The Indian Heritage of America - Alvin M. Josephy - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=QH9-6AfxC_0C&pg=PA132#v=onepage

  From the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age to the American Indian of the 20th century, this book encompasses the whole historical and cultural range of Indian life in Corth, Central, and South America. 32 pages…

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  Indian Wars - Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=cc3l29gVaHkC&pg=PA186

  An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which still resonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert…

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  Readers Comp to Military History Pa - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=qOEu4ALwR-IC&pg=PA445#v=onepage

  THE READER'S COMPANION TO MILITARY HISTORY is the first major reference work on military history to represent a global perspective. More than 150 distinguished military historians, biographers, and journalists contributed nearly 600 articles to this…

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  Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans - A. J. Baime - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=PqhXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=history,+manhattan,+%22essex+house%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil2ofKzYbKA

  By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather’s company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do…

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