History
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

A SOLDIER OF ATHENS The ablest of the Greek generals was Miltiades. He determined to attack the enemy at once, and when his day of command came, on the 12th ...
( Category: Greece January 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Steve Sheinkin

THE U BUSINESS ACTUALLY, THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS were about to become more powerful than Oppenheimer had ever imagined. In late December 1938, in the German capital of Berlin, a chemist named ...
( Category: 1900s December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:William L. Shirer [Shirer, William L.]

One battleship! Was it the Bismarck? Admirals and captains went quickly to their chart rooms and marked the given position on their maps. So far as they knew no British ...
( Category: Europe November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Albert Marrin [Marrin, Albert]

An illustration of the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island, 1866. (picture credit 4.12) Enter the Mink Coat Brigade Still others saw the Uprising of the Twenty Thousand as more than a ...
( Category: 1900s November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Marjorie Gann [Gann, Marjorie]

NEW HOME, NEW NAME Owners considered it their right to name their slaves. The name might sound mighty, like “Hercules,” the Greek hero, or silly, like “Jumper.” Either way, it ...
( Category: Customs, Traditions, Anthropology November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Jared Diamond

Class Divisions Farming brought another curse to humanity: class divisions. Hunter-gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources such as orchards or herds of cows. They ...
( Category: Customs, Traditions, Anthropology November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Swanson, James L. [Swanson, James L.]

( Category: 1900s November 14,2014 )
epub |deu | 2012-11-20 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

>Wenn ehedem ein Kunstwerk entstand, der Baumeister vorging mit sorgsamer Hand, in jedem Augenblick und in jedem Zimmer, Denn die Gottheiten, sie sehen es immer.< Also haben sie die Kellerstufen ...
( Category: Family Saga November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-05 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

Three times Philip had avoided what seemed like certain capture, but he had been driven from his homeland. His original fighting force of approximately 250 warriors was down to 40, ...
( Category: Colonial Period November 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:DuMont, Brianna [DuMont, Brianna]

A little help here? But for romantic Shakespeare, that ending simply wouldn’t do. He made Romeo and Juliet a “pair of star-crossed lovers” whose tragic deaths end their parents’ constant ...
( Category: General October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Vince Cross

Thursday, 10th October They got the Hengist Road school last night, the one where Mum works. The wardens were all out looking after other people, thank goodness, so no one ...
( Category: History October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Lynne Reid Banks [Lynne Reid Banks]

Mummy suddenly became very busy; directing Penny Wise, which was coming along marvellously apparently, was hard work and she had to leave us two evenings a week to go to ...
( Category: Military & Wars October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust

To this planet of shadow and despair, An angel came to give help and care. One hand was clutched by her little son, She wanted to mother everyone. Through time ...
( Category: Historical October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yona Zeldis McDonough

In the spring of 1885, Laura agreed to teach one more term of school. Since married women were not allowed to teach, she would have to give up her career ...
( Category: 1800s October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Sara Lewis Holmes

Over the weekend, Bo wished he’d taken his dad’s advice and written out a list of how to be nice to Gari, because she wasn’t making it easy. She didn’t ...
( Category: Military & Wars October 16,2014 )