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Athens: Its Rise and Fall by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton

* * * CHAPTER III. Aristides.--His Character and Position.--The Rise of Themistocles.-- Aristides is Ostracised.--The Ostracism examined.--The Influence of Themistocles increases.--The Silver-mines of Laurion.--Their Product applied by Themistocles to the ...
( Category: European History August 11,2021 )
Difficult Men by Brett Martin
epub |ita | 2018-10-23 | Author:Brett Martin [Martin, Brett]

( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 11,2021 )
Antisemitism by Levy Richard S. Lindemann Albert S. & Richard S. Levy
epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Levy, Richard S., Lindemann, Albert S. & Richard S. Levy

CONCLUSION: THE DUTY TO MEMORY As Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis in Anti-Semite and Jew clearly demonstrates, already in 1944 many of the French understood that the horrendous persecutions of the Jews ...
( Category: European History August 11,2021 )
Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay by Jamie L. H. Goodall
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Jamie L. H. Goodall

GEORGE R. ROBERTS One of the men who served as a gunner on the Chasseur during its famous blockade of England in August 1814 was a free black man named ...
( Category: American History August 10,2021 )
Pacific Payback by Stephen L. Moore
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Stephen L. Moore

ELEVEN The Deadly Flights Home The Dauntless aviators had wrecked three enemy flattops in a five-minute span, and now, as they raced back to their own carriers, they could only ...
( Category: American History August 10,2021 )
Collision Course by Hans Greimel
epub |eng | 2021-06-22 | Author:Hans Greimel

* * * The Renault side, caught completely flatfooted, needed time to digest the arrest of its longtime leader. Bolloré and his inner circle were appalled by Nissan’s aggressive, ruthlessly ...
( Category: Engineering August 10,2021 )
Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks;
epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:Oliver Sacks; [Sacks, Oliver]

* * * — I FIRST MET Mr. K. about six months after this, in March 2002. He was a tall, amiable man, well dressed, affable, and voluble. He presented ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 10,2021 )
China in One Village by Liang Hong
epub |eng | | Author:Liang Hong

Lumpy Ginger By the time we’re ready to eat, it’s well past 1 pm. But, as they say, “In the country, there’s neither food nor tea, ‘til almost three,” so ...
( Category: Asian History August 10,2021 )
Boeing B-17 by Graham M. Simons & Harry Friedman
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Graham M. Simons & Harry Friedman

Obviously a posed photograph of technicians ‘working’ on a B-17 in the one of the modification centres. Literally hundreds of different changes made to wartime B-17s, although many were of ...
( Category: Engineering August 10,2021 )
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia by Barak Kushner;Sherzod Muminov;
epub |eng | | Author:Barak Kushner;Sherzod Muminov;

Chapter 6 ANTI-IMPERIALISM AS STRATEGY: MASKING THE EDGES OF FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS IN CIVIL WAR-ERA CHINA, 1945–1948 Matthew D. Johnson The unraveling of Japan’s empire in China did not occur immediately, ...
( Category: Middle East History August 10,2021 )
60 Years Later by John David California
epub |eng | 2009-05-25 | Author:John David California

15 The Russian deli isn’t here anymore. I had guessed it wouldn’t be, but I didn’t know. Instead we go to the coffee shop that is now where the deli ...
( Category: Photography & Video August 10,2021 )
German Secret Weapons of the Second World War by Ian V. Hogg
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Ian V. Hogg

Enzian Next came Enzian (‘Gentian’), a design which came very close to success. Enzian was an extremely powerful rocket which could almost be considered a pilotless aircraft. It carried a ...
( Category: European History August 10,2021 )
Ancestors by Alice Roberts
epub |eng | 2021-05-27 | Author:Alice Roberts

Over the winter months of the 1880s and ’90s, the agricultural labourers at Rushmore found themselves tasked with carrying out a different sort of fieldwork. Completely unskilled in archaeology at ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 10,2021 )
The Idea of Singapore by Tai Yong Tan
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Tai Yong Tan [Tan, Tai Yong]

Lecture IV THE IDEA OF SINGAPORE City, Country and Nation In my last lecture, I referred to Singapore as a port city, both in terms of functions and instincts. At ...
( Category: Asian History August 10,2021 )
Reading the Postwar Future by Kirrily Freeman;John Munro;
epub |eng | | Author:Kirrily Freeman;John Munro;

Reconstructions A 1944 Hollywood war film, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, dramatized the April 1942 Doolittle Raid and one airman’s quest to get home to his pregnant wife.1 The raid, in ...
( Category: American History August 10,2021 )

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