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Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew C. Perry: The Lives and Careers of the Brothers Who Became Legendary U.S. Navy Officers by Charles River Editors
azw3 |eng | 2020-07-31 | Author:Charles River Editors

“O. H. PERRY.” Having taken a generous tone in his official report and in his reply to Elliott’s letter, Perry was reluctant to question his subordinate’s motives or actions during ...
( Category: Biographies March 4,2021 )
Lost Washington, D.C. by John DeFerrari
epub |eng | 2019-04-13 | Author:John DeFerrari

By the following year, the Kenmore had closed, and the building was vacant. The Post reported in August that passersby invariably wanted to know which window was the one to ...
( Category: History March 4,2021 )
Scholastic Book of Presidents 2020 by George Sullivan
epub |eng | 2020-12-02 | Author:George Sullivan [Sullivan, George]

1929 - Stock market selling panic preceded the Great Depression 1929 - Richard Byrd made South Pole flight 1932 - Amelia Earhart completed first transatlantic solo flight by a woman ...
( Category: Historical Biographies March 4,2021 )
Photographing Mussolini by Alessandra Antola Swan
epub |eng | | Author:Alessandra Antola Swan

From the mid-1930s, the increased frequency of Mussolini’s presence in the daily press placed him as the subject of an evolving style of photojournalism and a modern image culture. The ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 4,2021 )
Istanbul by Bettany Hughes
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Bettany Hughes [HUGHES, BETTANY]

Some Christian traditions continued in the city after the Ottoman conquest and still do to this day – here is the Greek Patriarch Joachim III’s funeral procession in 1912. The ...
( Category: European History March 4,2021 )
Kingdoms of Faith by Catlos Brian A.;
epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Catlos, Brian A.;

The “Palace of Pleasures” (Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza); exterior. Turol Jones, 2004 (Creative Commons) Under his patronage, Zaragoza became an important center of both Arabic and Hebrew letters and home to ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
The Mirror at Midnight by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]

… Late afternoon. Two weeks before Christmas. Downtown Johannesburg is decorated with long strings of winking colored lights. There are Christmas trees in shop windows and merchants have hired small ...
( Category: European History March 4,2021 )
Medieval Philosophy (A History of Philosophy) by Peter Adamson
epub |eng | 2019-09-26 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]

47 Here Comes the Son The Trinity and the Eucharist Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass contains a scene in which Alice, in discussion with the White Queen, says that ...
( Category: European History March 4,2021 )
The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism by Evans G. R
epub |eng | | Author:Evans, G. R.

CHAPTER V A new age of monastic experiment i. A monastic explosion and some experiments Adult entrants and monastic life as ‘retirement’ By the end of the eleventh century something ...
( Category: Catholicism March 4,2021 )
The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony by Dennis P. Hupchick
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis P. Hupchick

On 20 August the two opposing armies drew up in formal two-line battle formations facing one another a bit north of the Byzantine encampment above Ankhialos and astride the coastal ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
Engines and Other Apparatus of the Milwaukee Fire Department by Wayne Mutza;
epub |eng | 2020-09-17 | Author:Wayne Mutza;

Engine Co. 31’s 1948 model 85 750-GPM Mack pumper served the south-side company for 31 years, a record among the nine Mack pumpers acquired during 1948 and 1949 (courtesy of ...
( Category: Automotive March 4,2021 )
Jews, Labour and the Left, 1918-48 by Collette Christine; Bird Stephen; & Stephen Bird
epub |eng | | Author:Collette, Christine; Bird, Stephen; & Stephen Bird

Notes 1. Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale papers, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, transcript of Vandervelde's speech, April 1928, SAI 2518/4. Biography of Vandervelde, Polasky, Janet (1995), The Democratic Socialism of Emile ...
( Category: Economics March 4,2021 )
Modern China, 1840-1972: An Introduction to Sources and Research Aids by Andrew J. Nathan
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Andrew J. Nathan

10. Collections of Documents, Published and Microfilmed, and Reprint Series. Chinese scholars have traditionally invested heroic efforts in compiling collections of primary source documentation. These have been published as ts’ung-shu, ...
( Category: American History March 4,2021 )
Specimens by Richard Conniff
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Richard Conniff [Conniff, Richard]

Paul Du Chaillu. (Stories of the Gorilla Country, 1895) But the truth seems to be that his mother was a woman of mixed race, possibly a slave, on the Indian ...
( Category: Architecture March 4,2021 )
Man and Woman by Dietrich von Hildebrand
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand [Hildebrand, Dietrich von]

Isolated sexuality threatens love While stressing that it is a grave error to see the sexual sphere and the sexual act as something evil as such, we also acknowledge that ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 4,2021 )

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