History
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Anne Ross

35a Saint Teilo’s skull, Llandilo-isaf, Pembrokeshire. See A. Ross 1999, pl.4 People who wished to curse their enemies were in the habit of throwing bent pins into the well. In ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Bryn Barnard [Barnard, Bryn]

Muslim bimaristans treated patients with rest, nutrition, drugs, surgery, aromatherapy, and music therapy. Some bimaristans were very luxurious. In twelfth-century Marrakech, patients were provided with running water in every room, ...
( Category: History August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Ed Butts [Butts, Ed]

On the evening of July 4, 1946, the residents of Port Clinton, Ohio, on the south shore of Lake Erie, witnessed a blazing display that had nothing to do with ...
( Category: History August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Pignat

You said you’d give me his story.” I gestured at the journal by the foot of the chair. “And you give me this.” He stood. “I think we’re done for ...
( Category: Romance August 26,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Allan Burnett

WAR REPORT Personnel: William Raynor Wilcock was a Private in the Gordon Highlanders. During the war he kept a personal memoir in which he charted his experiences, including his arrival ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Margaret Peterson Haddix [Haddix, Margaret Peterson]

“Let me see!” Jonah said, reaching for the book. He thought Staffe was probably mistaken—how closely had Staffe looked at the picture of Andrea, anyway, before he threw it overboard? ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]

6c) Ann Wood jumped in a canal and tried to kill herself. A policeman had to rescue her and then take her to court. That was a nuisance. The judge ...
( Category: Humor August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:Linda Barrett Osborne [Osborne, Linda Barrett]

The Harlem Renaissance was not just cultural; it was also political. The NAACP kept the public informed about racial issues through its magazine, the Crisis, edited by W. E. B. ...
( Category: Education & Reference August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:Jennifer L. Holm

CHAPTER SEVEN Bad Days Indeed Wilbert says there are some days that are so bad there’s no mending them. I am thinking this is one of those days, what with ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Georg Rauch

Your Georg July 2, 1944 Dear Mutti, The days pass by very monotonously. Always the same activities, the same weather, the same too little to eat (beans, peas, lentils, beans, ...
( Category: Education & Reference August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-26 | Author:Valerie Sherrard

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “Mr. Cullwick!” Mrs. Chapman sputtered. “But I thought ...” Cullwick stepped inside and sat down at a bench beside the table. He looked so weary and discouraged that ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Walters

CHAPTER ELEVEN I ROLLED OVER IN BED, awakened by the sound of a phone ringing. I sat up. It was bright, so it had to be morning, but I had ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Walters

CHAPTER ELEVEN “HOW MUCH LONGER before we go?” I asked Jack. “Soon.” The sun had been down below the horizon for about fifteen minutes but there was light spilling over ...
( Category: History August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-17 | Author:Eric Walters

CHAPTER FIFTEEN I STUDIED THE FRONT PAGE of the latest edition of The Commando. It was posted on the bulletin board of the building I worked in, and in every ...
( Category: History August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Walters

CHAPTER TWELVE “I’LL GET IT!” I yelled as the phone rang out. I threw the dishcloth onto the counter and ran for the phone. We’d just finished delivering the papers ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 17,2017 )