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The-Odyssey by Unknown
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Unknown

BOOK XIV ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track up through the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 11,2020 )
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Douglas Boin [Boin, Douglas]

CHAPTER EIGHT Into the Labyrinth To the fight / which lies before me now I go with Justice. —EURIPIDES In 397 Arcadius’s men appointed Alaric general of Illyricum. He had ...
( Category: Rome June 11,2020 )
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor by Dick Lehr
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Dick Lehr [Lehr, Dick]

Chapter 13 Moon over Guadalcanal Navy Secretary Knox and Admirals Nimitz and Halsey on Guadalcanal WWII Database/public domain A LIGHT SNOW FELL IN WASHINGTON, DC, AS PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt ...
( Category: Japan June 11,2020 )
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Arthur J. Magida [Magida, Arthur J.]

CHAPTER 13 “WHEN I SEE YOU AGAIN, IT WILL BE AFTER THE WAR” Occasionally, Noor went back to Suresnes to visit Madame Prenat and her daughter Raymonde. Before, these visits ...
( Category: Women in History June 11,2020 )
The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James by Daniel J. Duke
epub |eng | 2020-04-05 | Author:Daniel J. Duke

Commentary: The Bank of Columbia in Columbia, Kentucky, was reportedly robbed on April 20, 1872, by the James Gang. According to the diary, Jesse was working in the corn field ...
( Category: United States June 10,2020 )
Cult of Glory by Doug J. Swanson
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Doug J. Swanson [Swanson, Doug J.]

* * * — Mexico had never really recovered from its mid-1800s war with the United States—at least in regard to the rural poor—and the turmoil of the revolution only ...
( Category: United States June 10,2020 )
Canada 1957-1967 by J.L. Granatstein
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:J.L. Granatstein [Granatstein, J.L.]

IV The Saskatchewan experience did not frighten off all the national parties. John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservatives, who had probably benefited from the issue in the 1962 federal election in Saskatchewan, ...
( Category: Historical June 10,2020 )
Canada 1874-1896 by P.B. Waite
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:P.B. Waite [Waite, P.B.]

Railway Lines in the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland by the 1890’s There ought to be some limit to discrimination…but in trade the laws of competition can seldom be safely interfered ...
( Category: Historical June 10,2020 )
Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson by Stanley Mazaroff
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Stanley Mazaroff

9 BERENSON’S FAUSTIAN BARGAIN WITH DUVEEN In an art market unrestricted by ethical standards, the dealer who was widely considered to be the most unscrupulous was Joseph Duveen. Duveen’s biographer ...
( Category: Museum Studies & Museology June 9,2020 )
The Magnificent Diwan by Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy
epub |eng | 2019-12-04 | Author:Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy [Dadabhoy, Bakhtiar K]

A FUTILE ATTEMPT Salar Jung had tasted success with the loan floated in London in June 1875. He now sought to replicate that success with another loan for the extension ...
( Category: Historical June 8,2020 )
United States of Socialism by Dinesh D'Souza
epub |eng | | Author:Dinesh D'Souza

WHITE ON WHITE The aversion is actually a two-way street. I’m not aware of a single American socialist who wants what the Scandinavians have. Not even Bernie Sanders. The reasons ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 8,2020 )
Rajneeti by Gautam Chintamani
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Gautam Chintamani [Chintamani, Gautam]

10 Take It to the Voter The years between 2010 and 2013 will perhaps go down in history as one of the most significant periods in the contemporary socio-political history ...
( Category: Historical June 8,2020 )
A Summer of Birds by Danny Heitman
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Danny Heitman

AN AUDUBON REPAST Family ledgers that survive from the period indicate that the Pirries were wealthy enough to savor delicacies not available to most householders of the era—quite a change ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides June 7,2020 )
The Shadow Conspiracy by unknow
epub |eng | | Author:unknow

On Sunday Marie went to Congo Square, where folk gathered after church to greet their neighbours and exchange news of the week. Years ago she had led weekly dances in ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2020 )
To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall
epub |eng | 2002-06-05 | Author:Ted Rall

10. When Life is a Short-term Lease DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN, December 7 “How old are you?” the soldier wanted to know. Resplendent in his spiffy new Northern Alliance hat and shiny ...
( Category: Biographies & History June 6,2020 )

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