Engineering & Transportation
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:David Green [Green, David]

7 The Reconquest of Aquitaine (1368–71) In 1368, the prince’s reputation was at its height, confirmed militarily by Nájera and founded on a glorious principality in Gascony alongside his English ...
( Category: England March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-03 | Author:Lewis Hamilton

CHAPTER 11 SILVERSTONE ‘It did take some getting used to – hanging out with P. Diddy, calling him Sean and having all these famous people’s numbers on my phone. I ...
( Category: Racing March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Paine, Lincoln [Paine, Lincoln]

Christopher Columbus The exploratory activity on the Atlantic had attracted any number of ambitious mariners, one of whom, the Genoese-born Christopher Columbus, conceived a bold plan “that he would sail ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:David Cordingly

I have got the review of Gambiers Court Martial quite finished but ruin, inevitable damnation hangs over both the Court and the Witnesses – all of whom fall under the ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Jill Jonnes

EIGHTEEN “DISTURBED ABOUT NORTH RIVER TUNNELS” On Monday April 2, 1906, an anguished Samuel Rea sat at a wooden desk in his spacious Bryn Mawr home and considered how best ...
( Category: History of Railroads March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Childress, David Hatcher [Childress, David Hatcher]

Aerial Warfare in Ancient India The ancient Indian epics go into considerable detail about aerial warfare over 10,000 years ago. So much detail that a famous Oxford professor included a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Gillian Cookson

seven hundredweight strain sufficed to keep the rate of the cable near enough to that of the ship, but as the water deepened the proportionate speed of the cable advanced, ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:James Salzman [SALZMAN, JAMES]

This incredible—truly incredible—tale invented at Winchcombe Abbey was a likely result of such boosterism, as pilgrimage sites competed with one another to get a cut from the revenue stream. One ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Cate Lineberry [LINEBERRY, CATE]

Exhausted after a day of grueling hiking, the weary party arrived at Sheper, a village of about one hundred stone houses and roughly fifteen miles north of the border with ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Sam Roberts [ROBERTS, SAM]

PERHAPS THE TERMINAL’S MOST ENDURING EXPORT is about time. Until 1883, virtually every town in the country set local time by the sun. Typically, noon would be regularly signaled so ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Andrew Martin

But this was different. A full hour after first hearing the roar of the Dapha through the trees, the Mackrell party was still cutting through steeply descending jungle. At the ...
( Category: Aerospace March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hunter Davies

*Prof. Simmons searched the contemporary press and could find only one small report, in The Times, which contains a reference, but no praise, of Robert. George was obviously trying to ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Vogelstein, Fred [Vogelstein, Fred]

6 Android Everywhere By 2010 Apple and Google were attacking each other on every possible front: in the courts, in the media, and in the marketplace. Android’s surge in popularity ...
( Category: Mobile & Wireless March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Marcus Rediker

In 1718, in his opening remarks in the trial of Stede Bonnet and crew in Charleston, Richard Allen, attorney general of South Carolina, explained that piracy “is a Crime so ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Willis, M.S. [Willis, M.S.]

Chapter Six “We’ll refer to him as ‘douchnugget’.” Arriving home, Matt and I walked up the three flights of steps to the apartment laughing and probably being a lot louder ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 25,2014 )