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India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck
epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Diana L Eck [Eck, Diana L.]

Devotees, come for the darshan of Minākshī in Madurai In the yearly round of spring festivals, the marriage of Shiva and Mīnākshī is celebrated every year during the month of ...
( Category: Asian History November 3,2020 )
Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree by Alan Brooke & David Brandon
mobi |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Alan Brooke & David Brandon [Brooke, Alan]

But she to vicious ways inclin’d, A life most wicked led; With tailors and with tinkers too, She oft defiled his bed … Mary Young, also known as ‘Jenny Diver’, ...
( Category: History November 3,2020 )
David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest by Jack Nisbet
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Jack Nisbet [Nisbet, Jack]

Mt. Washington, Willamette Country “Country undulating; soil rich, light, with beautiful solitary oaks and pines interspersed through it.” —David Douglas (illustration credit 7.2) Back in London in 1828, Douglas revisited ...
( Category: Memoirs November 3,2020 )
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb by Brian Lamb
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Lamb

Teddy Roosevelt’s own words on a plaque near his grave Returning to the United States in 1910, Roosevelt became convinced that President Taft had shifted too far to the right. ...
( Category: European History November 3,2020 )
Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan With Britain's Elite Bomb Disposal Unit by Sean Rayment
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Sean Rayment [Rayment, Sean]

Chapter 6: The Lonely Walk ‘I was almost killed the other day.’ Staff Sergeant Gareth Wood, ATO, 11 EOD Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, serving with JFEOD Group ‘If you’re lucky, ...
( Category: History November 2,2020 )
The Home and the World by unknow
epub |eng | 2005-04-26 | Author:unknow

‘To such a minister, a king ought to be beholden, always.’ And the king continued: ‘The minister, Prajnakośa reflected: “Where a king is totally devoted, heart and mind, to his ...
( Category: American History November 2,2020 )
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley & Steve Wozniak
mobi |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Phil Lapsley & Steve Wozniak

Fifteen PRANKS LIKE THE FLAP of a butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane half a world away, the ripples of unintended consequences from Ron Rosenbaum’s “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” ...
( Category: Biographies November 2,2020 )
The Island by Guy N Smith
mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Guy N Smith [Smith, Guy N]

13 Edith had crept along the beach, clambering over slippery rocks, the spray from the Cauldron stinging her face. There was no sign of Zoke; he had stopped setting traps ...
( Category: American History November 2,2020 )
The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing by Bill Phillips
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Bill Phillips

The Need for Practice No amount of reading will make you good at picking locks. You need to practice often so that you develop the sense of feel. You need ...
( Category: Engineering November 2,2020 )
Unpatriotic History of the Second World War by James Hartfield
mobi |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:James Hartfield

ELAS Partisans, photographed by Dmitri Kessel Britain sent a youthful Captain Christopher Montague Woodhouse (later the fifth Baron Terrington and Conservative MP for Oxford) into Greece in the hopes of ...
( Category: European History November 2,2020 )
Subway by John E. Morris
epub |eng | 2020-10-06 | Author:John E. Morris [E. MORRIS, JOHN]

Before it was widened for the IND subway in the 1930s, Houston Street was like other narrow streets in the older parts of Manhattan. Houston Street was once a narrow ...
( Category: Engineering November 2,2020 )
The Best Machine Guns in the World War II (Extended Edition): Creation and History of the Firearms by Brown Francis W
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-10-06 | Author:Brown, Francis W. [Brown, Francis W.]

To the release of MG.34 during the war years, five enterprises with high production precision were attracted: Mauser-Verke, Gustlov-Verke, Maget in Germany; and also taken without battle and destruction "Steir" ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
The Madman's Library by Brooke-Hitching Edward
epub |eng | 2020-10-02 | Author:Brooke-Hitching, Edward

A Talismanic shirt of the early sixteenth century with the entire Qur’an written inside, bordered by the ninety-nine names of God written in gold. The shirt was believed to be ...
( Category: Reference November 2,2020 )
The Pirate Hunter by Author
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:Author

( Category: Action & Adventure November 2,2020 )
In the Reign of King John by Dan Jones
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Dan Jones [Jones, Dan]

So England in 1215 was a land of many languages –not quite Babel, but certainly a place where men and women were divided and defined by the words they used. ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership November 2,2020 )

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