Arts & Photography
mobi |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:McKay Sinclair

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-14 | Author:Richard Overy

A VICTORY OF SORTS I think we have managed to avoid losing this war. But when I think how on earth we are going to win it, my imagination quails. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Neil Oliver

Mary had no such qualms and gamely set out to survey the field for a suitable husband. (This behaviour can only have added to Knox’s rage. While he was almost ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Aeschylus & Roberts, Deborah [Roberts, Deborah]

Endnotes Here I note departures from the text of Griffith’s edition (Griffith 1983) and a few other textual issues. i. 431 (409 in the Greek): “in the west.” Here I ...
( Category: Theater March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Robert Hughes

The Irish were the largest and most cohesive white minority in penal Australia, and their folkways were bound to make a deep mark on the ethos of all convicts and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Tunzelmann, Alex Von [Tunzelmann, Alex Von]

TEN DAYS after the transfer of power, the scale and awfulness of what was under way had still not been realized in Delhi. “We are only just alive,” wrote Edwina ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Graham Hancock

37 Ibid., pp. 7, 31. 38 World Mythology, p. 139. It should also be noted that, like Samson, Orion was blind— the only blind figure in constellation mythology. See Hamlet’s ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Robert Bauval

OUT OF THE SAHARA AND INTO THE NILE VALLEY For many years a team of anthropologists headed by Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin of Cologne University in Germany have been ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-05 | Author:Cyril Mango

Byzantium in the tenth century was realizing the benefits of the unglamorous strengths which it had built up in the struggle for survival in the seventh and eighth centuries, and ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

33 The World of Cicero Suppose I manage to make even Caesar who is riding on the crest of the wave just now a better citizen, am I harming the ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Neal Bascomb

“John Jakob Raskob, capitalist”—so he signed one of the many documents in the purchase of the two-acre plot west of Fifth Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. Of the many ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Stewart O'Nan

An officer stands guard over pieces of the northeast chute to be used as evidence. PHOTO BY PAUL R. SHAFER, COURTESY OF MR. SHAFER HIMSELF They arrived in time to ...
( Category: New England March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Leon F. Litwack

But he quickly revised his expectations about freedom, and the example of those who had gone elsewhere influenced his thinking. “Dem what lef de old plantation seemed so all fired ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )