Historical
epub |eng | 2013-10-04 | Author:Hans Baur

In Norway at about this time the number of mysterious explosions in planes whilst in the air, resulting in the loss of the machines and their crews, increased to such ...
( Category: Military April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Bob Thompson

The Birthplace of Texas has been a ghost town for more than a century. In the 1840s, it was a thriving cotton port, with steamers operating between Washington and the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 2,2018 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Muller

. . . for [Alice Herz-Sommer] reproduction is actually creation; she identifies with the work and its creator. She contributes her eminent technique and great knowledge to the service of ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.J. Collins [Collins, J.J.]

Chapter Seven When the length of the shadows told Declan the sun was on its way down, the wolf got up, shook himself, lapped a bit of water, and trotted ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-19 | Author:Andrew Balaam [Balaam, Andrew]

17 Chiredzi, Operation Repulse, 1978 I was operating in a Tribal Trust Land in the Chiredzi area, a terrorist stronghold. Every member of the local community was a staunch ZANLA ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-09 | Author:Bernard Lewis [Lewis, Bernard]

It is a charge often levelled at historians that their enquiries are concerned only with the possessors of wealth, power and learning; that though they may pretend to write the ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Louis Fischer [Fischer, Louis]

17The Half-Naked Fakir Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald was embarrassed to be the jailer of Gandhi. From all over the world and from his own country came a deluge of telegrams ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Niromi de Soyza [de Soyza, Niromi]

Saturday, 26 September was another hot and humid day. As I neared the Nallur Temple, I detected tension in the air. A sickening feeling rose in my stomach. I hurriedly ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

World’s first submarine base in New Suffolk, New York In July, to oversee the preparations for the navy trials, Rice, along with Julia and their children—five at that time—journeyed from ...
( Category: Technology April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Barrie Cassidy [Cassidy, Barrie]

13 Unbearable Reminders As the cattle train released its miserable cargo, the shouting and the pushing were reminiscent of Salonika where the journey had begun. The guards simply wanted the ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-26 | Author:David S. Shields [Shields, David S.]

“Maison Dorée” (ca. 1866). Stereoscopic photograph, American Views, New York. Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views (Coll 91-F209). Photograph: From the New York Public Library (G91F209_019F). Paretti returned to public ...
( Category: Americas April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Élisabeth Roudinesco [Roudinesco, Élisabeth]

PART FOUR The Final Years TWELVE Between Fetish Medicine and Religion AS MEDICINE BECAME more and more scientific, national governments found it increasingly necessary to regulate therapeutic activities. Although it ...
( Category: Psychology April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Bridget Hilton-Barber [Hilton-Barber, Bridget]

15 Pak jou goed ‘HILTON-BARBER, PAK JOU GOED.’ An ugly, officious warder barks out this command. We are all inside our cell. It is my fourth week in the Rooi ...
( Category: World April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Herbert J. Redman [Redman, Herbert J.]

Chapter Thirty-Three The Swedes Show Their Hand1 The Swedes had, earlier in the year, shown a rather curious lack of drive. Heavy demands for Prussian troops had cost the Northern ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-19 | Author:George Peto & Peter Margaritis [Peto, George]

That night, the Japanese planned on making a substantial attempt to try and retake the Point. If they could once again secure this elevated position, they could set up mortars, ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )