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The Life Or Legend Of Gaudama, Volume 1 by Paul Ambroise Bigandet
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Paul Ambroise Bigandet [Unbekannt]

On a certain day, the people of the country had prepared offerings on a large scale to be presented to Kathaba. On hearing this welcome news, the Rathee thought within ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 15,2020 )
Generalissimo by Jonathan Fenby
epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [Fenby, Jonathan]

PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, as a typhoon blew through Shanghai picking up people ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
The Impatient Dr. Lange by Seema Yasmin
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Seema Yasmin

6 Trials Once upon a time a heretical priest and a pair of young lovers were trapped in an authoritarian state. Baltasar, a wounded soldier was besotted with Blimunda, a ...
( Category: Pathology March 15,2020 )
The Pious Ones by Joseph Berger
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Berger

12 A MODERN MENSCH The place took his breath away. Mendel Werdyger was six or seven years old when his broad-bearded father, a synagogue cantor, brought him along to a ...
( Category: Sociology March 15,2020 )
Free Byrd by Paul Byrd
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Paul Byrd

7 LARRY THE LEGEND IN 1999, the year after my fateful start against Randy Johnson, I got to dress next to him on the National League All-Star Team in the ...
( Category: Baseball March 15,2020 )
Exile and Revolution by Poyo Gerald E.;
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Poyo, Gerald E.;

Figure 5. José Martí (standing, center) with cigar workers at the Martínez Ybor cigar factory in Ybor City, Florida, July 1892. José D. Poyo is second from Martí’s right, and ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )
Sisters and Rebels by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
epub |eng | | Author:Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

It was the time of my deepest despair. I had called on reason. It didn’t help. I had called on our philosophy of materialism. It had only left me weak ...
( Category: Women in History March 15,2020 )
The Lives of the Saints I by S. Baring-Gould
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:S. Baring-Gould [Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)]

"Go," said the most eloquent doctor of the Church at that period; "go to the Thebaid; you will find there a solitude still more beautiful than Paradise, a thousand choirs ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 15,2020 )
The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville (Extended Annotated Edition) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

It is to be regretted that Captain Bonneville had no instruments with him with which to ascertain the altitude of this peak. He gives it as his opinion that it ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 15,2020 )
Facing the Spears of Change by Marie Alohalani Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Marie Alohalani Brown

FIGURE 3.1. John Papa ‘Ī‘ī’s letter to G. P. Judd informing him of Lord Paulet’s imminent arrival on O‘ahu and his intentions. Hawai‘i State Archives. Photo by author. After five ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )
Naxal Bari of Kerala: memoir of Ajitha by Ajitha
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Ajitha [Ajitha]

15 POLITICAL RESPONSES It is worthwhile to record the responses to the Thalassery-Pulpally rebellions from various quarters within the state and the rest of the country. I got to know ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 15,2020 )
Book Self by C. K. Stead
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:C. K. Stead [Stead, C. K.]

* * * 1 A review of Billie’s Kiss by Elizabeth Knox (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2002), Landfall 204, November 2002. Rushdie the Clown1 Rumour has it that Salman Rushdie’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 15,2020 )
Monty's Marauders by Patrick Delaforce
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Patrick Delaforce

So HD set off once again to war - somewhere ‘over there’. 5th Camerons in HMTs Cheshire and Lancashire; 7th Black Watch in the liberty ship Fort Brunswick and LSI ...
( Category: World War II March 15,2020 )
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Sacha Batthyany

12 That afternoon we flew from Moscow to Yekaterinburg, where we spent four days searching for anything that remained of the camps. We had a ramshackle yellow minibus, a driver ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
God Is in the Crowd by Tal Keinan
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Tal Keinan

THE FOURTH ISRAEL’S EDUCATION By Jewish historical standards, Israel’s diversion of resources to parochial interest groups has produced an astonishing mediocrity in general educational achievement. Measured by test scores, Israeli ...
( Category: History March 14,2020 )

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