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An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli by Ellis Silas
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Ellis Silas

Anzac, May, 1915. In his description Silas refers to shrapnel bursting and he indicates it by the cloudlike puffs of smoke. A shrapnel shell contained thousands of steel or lead ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
A Very Capitalist Condition by Roddy Slorach
epub |eng | | Author:Roddy Slorach

From asylums to community care The closure of psychiatric institutions was not the breakthrough previously hoped for. As one mental health advocate noted in 1980: Tens of thousands of mental ...
( Category: History November 17,2020 )
Regarding Wave by Gary Snyder
epub |eng | 1970-11-15 | Author:Gary Snyder [Snyder Gary]

AGED TAMBA TEMPLE PLUM TREE SONG Firewood under tlie eaves ends trinun’d even Scaly silver lichen on the plum bark Ragged, rough, twisted, parts half-rotted A few blossoms open: rich ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 17,2020 )
Black Saturday at Steels Creek by Peter Stanley
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Peter Stanley

CHAPTER SEVEN SOUTH-WESTERLY ‘And then the wind changed’ — again: the third movement in the three-point turn shown by Kevin Tolhurst’s model. The change of wind in a bushfire is ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
Gay Art by James Smalls
epub |eng | | Author:James Smalls [Smalls, James]

113. Anton Mengs, Jupiter and Ganymede, 1758-1759. Fresco. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini-Corsini, Rome. Libertines and Libertinism Libertinism flourished in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France and England, encouraged by the ...
( Category: Photography & Video November 17,2020 )
Omdurman: 1898 by William Wright
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:William Wright

22. A stylised illustration of the Battle of the Atbara which gives some idea of its fierceness. The silence seemed ominous to Lieutenant Meiklejohn of the Warwicks: ‘Then we moved ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave by John Thompson
epub |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:John Thompson

CHAPTER XI I was next hired out to Mr. Hughes, who was, comparatively, a poor man, having but one working slave of his own; the rest on his farm being ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
The Squadron That Died Twice--The story of No. 82 Squadron RAF, which in 1940 lost 23 out of 24 aircraft in two bombing raids by Gordon Thorburn
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Gordon Thorburn [Gordon Thorburn]

Bristow, like all his WOp/AG colleagues in those days, had to know a great deal about the workings and practicalities of wireless to be able to get his unreliable and ...
( Category: Military History November 17,2020 )
New York State by Aaron Starmer
epub |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Aaron Starmer

THIS SCENIC CAMPGROUND is located at the western end of Fourth Lake, a central part of the Fulton Chain of lakes. The Fulton Chain is a series of connected lakes ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
The Great English Final by David Tossell
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:David Tossell

8 THE PEOPLE’S CHAMPION “We remember him as a slightly humped, stiff-looking figure, rather like a Meccano man, darting suddenly towards and away from transfixed defenders, the ball not kicked ...
( Category: History November 17,2020 )
The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven by Aaron Skirboll
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Aaron Skirboll [Skirboll Aaron]

BECAUSE OF his sports expertise and former beat as Pittsburgh Press baseball reporter, it was assumed that Dan Donovan had an astute eye for identifying players. And when Donovan was ...
( Category: U.S. State & Local History November 17,2020 )
Citizen-Soldiers and Manly Warriors by Claire R. Snyder
epub |eng | 1999-11-15 | Author:Claire R. Snyder

Policing the Borders of the Civic Republic: The Vices of the Citizen-Soldier Tradition Vices as well as virtues characterize the Citizen-Soldier tradition. While civic and martial practices create citizen-soldiers and ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
epub |eng | 2002-01-08 | Author:Rebecca Walker [Walker, Rebecca]

Lisa and me. It’s the end of sixth grade, summertime and I’m packing to go back east for the summer and the next two years. Lisa and I haven’t talked, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
There Was and There Was Not by Meline Toumani
epub |eng | | Author:Meline Toumani

13 How to Be a Turk My friend Ramazan took out a pen and grabbed a napkin. He scrawled a map of Turkey on it, drew a large X at ...
( Category: History November 17,2020 )
Believing in Cleveland (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy) by J. Mark Souther
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-03 | Author:J. Mark Souther [Souther, J. Mark]

The Cleveland Foundation’s Gradual Embrace of Playhouse Square The Halprin plan certainly appeared capable of creating a unified, appealing downtown. Perhaps because Halprin so skillfully wove together many varied projects ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )

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