History
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Tougias

14 BATTLING THE COLD SONNY AND RAY (SECOND AND THIRD HOURS IN THE OCEAN) Ray vowed to himself that he’d do whatever it took to keep his son warm, even ...
( Category: Children's History October 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-28 | Author:Grantlee Kieza

BANKS FIRST SAW THE coast of Iceland on 25 August 1772, and the Sir Lawrence encountered fishing boats there on the morning of the twenty-eighth. The boats sped off at ...
( Category: Memoirs October 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-05 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six The Post-Classic Period: 900-1539 CE “For the Maya, the Post-Classic period was a time of complex and profound changes.” —Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Ancient Maya Although the end ...
( Category: European History October 30,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Arthur Banks

d’Amade, General, 46, 120 d’Argueeff (? D’Argeyev), Captain, 300 d’Esperey, Franchet, 13–15, 47–8, 54–7, 109, 179, 199 d’Oissel, General Hely, 80–2, 83, 143, 168 d’Urbal, General, 144 Dagö, naval base ...
( Category: Military History October 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-17 | Author:de Blois, Lukas; van der Spek, R. J.; & R.J. van der Spek

The early republic (509–265 bc) State and society Around 500 bc – the traditional date is 509 – the era of the kings came to an end. Tradition has it ...
( Category: European History October 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-27 | Author:University Press [Press, University]

Further criticism was heaped on his campaign as people found more than just similarities between his speeches and several passages from the famous political figures Hubert Humphrey and Robert F. ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Thelle, Rannfrid;

Figure 6.1 The Babylonians’ own map of Babylon, showing Babylon at the center of the world. Up to around 1800 BCE, Babylon was a minor provincial town with rulers who ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Susanna Wade Martins

27 Dr Sydney Long (1870–1939), founder of the Norfolk Naturalists’ Trust. He is shown here at Scolt Head. 28 The Cley marshes were the first acquisition of the Norfolk Naturalists’ ...
( Category: American History October 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:Liebert, Hugh

38 For the history of the battle itself, see in particular Hamilton (1991) chap. 7, “The Road to Leuctra.” 39 Arist., Pol. 2.9 (1271b3-5); 7.14 (1334a8-9). In the latter passage, ...
( Category: European History October 29,2020 )
epub |fra | 2020-07-30 | Author:Sylvain Venayre, Pierre Singaravélou & Pierre Singaravélou & Sylvain Venayre

Marie-Ève Bouillon Pour aller plus loin : Christraud M. GEARY et Virginia-Lee WEBB, Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards, Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Sophie JUNGE, « Familiar ...
( Category: History October 29,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Paul Begg & John Bennett [Begg, Paul]

Though not named in print on this occasion, the ‘queen’s physician’ in 1888 was Sir William Gull. Apparently, on the evening of the day he lunched with Stowell Wilson met ...
( Category: European History October 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Jim Blake

Problems with ailing 1938 tube stock on the Northern Line in the early 1970s led to its being dubbed ‘The Misery Line’. In an attempt to remedy the situation, two ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation October 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-13 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five The Warrior Society “Tell me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are.” —Mesopotamian proverb Before moving on to examine the next phase of the history of ...
( Category: American History October 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-22 | Author:Susanne Koelbl [Koelbl, Susanne]

The royals’ depiction of the unification wars: The nation’s founder, Ibn Saud, was considered an honest, humble man. Direct descendants receive a fixed allowance from birth. It ranges between $200,000 ...
( Category: Religious Literature & Fiction October 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-27 | Author:William Souder

Elizabeth Otis, Steinbeck’s agent and confidante. (Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University) And in so many ways, it was. In Europe. In the farm fields ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 29,2020 )