Historical
epub |eng | 2011-05-07 | Author:Gary L. Roberts

The scene in the sheriff’s office was chaos multiplied. Even there Mallon continued to nervously point his revolvers at Holliday, causing Doc to remark, “Oh you can drop that. Nobody ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-17 | Author:Odd Nansen

This is a painted wood carving. It represents many a broken dental instrument, many a bloody fingertip, many a curse, and many a loving thought. The move to get Colbjørn ...
( Category: Memoirs April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Masters [Masters, John]

We were like a man trying to make a hidden-ball play from end to end of a football field thickly planted with trees. The distant rendezvous was the goal line, ...
( Category: Military April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:anselm jappe

The Debord Myth The events of May 1968 bestowed a measure of unanticipated notoriety on Guy Debord. Never having been fond of the limelight, least of all that of a ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 13,2018 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-09-12 | Author:Ian Grey [Grey, Ian]

The Russian throne changed hands seven times in the thirty-seven years after Peter’s death; and on each occasion, the guards - since Peter’s time a privileged caste with powers extending ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Kollen, Richard P. [Kollen, Richard P.]

Paul Revere, 1768, by John Singleton Copley. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Meanwhile, General Gage tried his best to avoid violent conflict. But earlier in 1774, while on a sabbatical ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hurtado, Albert L.

E L E V E N · The Grand Patriarch The 1930s were challenging years for the University of California. In July 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul became president of the ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-10-20 | Author:James E. Person [Person, James E.]

RALPH BAIN Kirk had given pride of place in the collection The Princess of All Lands to “Sorworth Place,” a traditional ghost story that introduces Ralph Bain, who is visiting ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:John Bowman

A polite request to His Grace Brian Lenihan (1964) As a young minister for justice, Brian Lenihan was a leading reformer in liberalizing the censorship laws. But he still reckoned ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Asser

THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, 888–900 (pp. 113–20) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides the foundation for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon secular history from its traditional beginnings in the middle of the fifth century ...
( Category: Historical April 12,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Sarah Foot [Foot, Sarah]

Æthelstan went on to explain why he felt compelled to legislate again: ‘The cause which has led us to issue this decree is that all the oaths, pledges and sureties ...
( Category: Historical April 12,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Alexander Larman

The twenty-fifth of June 1675 was a warm early summer’s day in London. The evening had certainly seen rare sport amongst the merry gang, who had dined with Charles at ...
( Category: Historical April 12,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Ramita Navai

five LEYLA Imam Khomeini Street, south Tehran, Motahari Street (Takht-e Tavous), midtown and Sa’adat Abad, north Tehran Leyla was on her knees. Her hands gripped the edge of the brown ...
( Category: Middle East April 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Stephan, Philip [Stephan, Philip G.]

NOTES 1 William Koepchen, “Martin Stephan and the Saxon Emigration of 1838” (unpublished ms., Stephan Family Archives and Concordia Historical Institute, 1935), 115–16. 2 Koepchen, “Martin Stephan and the Saxon ...
( Category: Americas April 12,2018 )