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England's Cathedrals by Jenkins Simon
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Jenkins, Simon [Jenkins, Simon]

( Category: Architecture March 14,2018 )
First World War by Bamber Gascoigne
epub |zho | 2010-12-22 | Author:Bamber Gascoigne [Gascoigne, Bamber]

The Russian front: 1916-1917 After the campaigns of 1915, bringing into German hands the whole of Russian Poland, the German high command could reasonably expect a relatively quiet Russian front ...
( Category: History March 14,2018 )
New Jersey's Colonial Architecture Told in 100 Buildings by Veasey David
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Veasey, David [Veasey, David]

Vought Farmstead, Clinton Township The Johannes Vought Farmstead is the only house in the United States with intact German folk art ceilings dating from the Colonial Period. The house was ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
Rory Gallagher by Marcus Connaughton
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Connaughton

This publicity still for Mercury Records shows Rory and Jerry Lee Lewis ‘The Killer’ in studio for a London Sessions. Jerry Lee Lewis reclines at the piano as (l-r) guitarists ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
Reading Art Spiegelman by Philip Smith
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Philip Smith

Narrative offers a means to articulate, in part, a disruptive, shattering event within a familiar framework and thus provide (in many cases) a sense of closure. The healing role of ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 14,2018 )
Greetings from Los Angeles by Moruzzi Peter;
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Moruzzi, Peter;

Christine Sterling’s “Exotic” China City opened in 1938 and was destroyed by fire in 1949. The original Chinatown was demolished to make way for downtown’s Union Station, the “Last of ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 14,2018 )
Gibraltar by Roy Adkins & Lesley Adkins
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Roy Adkins & Lesley Adkins

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SURRENDER The siege was affecting the wildlife, not just the domesticated horses and dogs that had to be culled. Gibraltar is important for birds migrating across the Straits, ...
( Category: Military March 14,2018 )
Photography for Everyone by Ross Kerry
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Ross, Kerry [Ross, Kerry]

FIGURE 5.1 Readers’ winning submissions for Asahi kamera Monthly Photo Competition, Division One, April 1928. Judges favored the lyrical and expressionist styles of geijutsu shashin in 1928. Source: Asahi kamera ...
( Category: Asia March 14,2018 )
Storied Bars of New York: Where Literary Luminaries Go to Drink by Delia Cabe
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Delia Cabe [Cabe, Delia]

THE DOROTHY PARKER Recipe courtesy of the Algonquin The Algonquin’s Blue Bar would be remiss if it didn’t serve a cocktail named after Dottie. The Blue Bar takes its name ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
Quilts Around the World: The Story of Quilting from Alabama to Zimbabwe by Gillespie Spike & Bresenhan Karey & MacDowell Marsha & Chatelain Hollis
epub |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Gillespie, Spike & Bresenhan, Karey & MacDowell, Marsha & Chatelain, Hollis [Gillespie, Spike]

Then, in 1963, in an exhibition that would be echoed to similar effect eight years later on the other side of the pond at the Abstract Design in American Quilts ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies March 14,2018 )
Japanese Fashion Cultures by Monden Masafumi
epub |eng | 2014-08-08 | Author:Monden, Masafumi.

In this sense, the concept of kawaii can operate like a feminine masquerade in Joan Riviere’s terms.123 According to McVeigh, women can use cuteness to their own advantage by obtaining ...
( Category: Asia March 14,2018 )
Ibn Khaldun by Irwin Robert
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Irwin, Robert

CHAPTER SEVEN Messages from the Dark Side Initially the Muqaddima set out to explore the underlying forces behind history and the correct way of understanding them. But the scope of ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Shostakovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Solomon Volkov

In this innermost episode of the symphony, Shostakovich seems to be overcoming personal pain. Here is the parallel with Jesus and with Pushkin, when the poet was dying of the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
Doctor Sócrates by Andrew Downie
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Downie [Downie, Andrew]

( Category: Soccer March 14,2018 )
Dr. Space by Bob Ward
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Ward [Ward, Bob]

15 En Route to Victory The Project Apollo push to the Moon was the driving force for Wernher von Braun during the 1960s. It required leadership, management, politicking, promotion, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 14,2018 )

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