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Niagaras of Ink by Jamie M. Carr;
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Jamie M. Carr;

Chapter 7 Words of Art Can words or images better capture the Falls? “Already you see the world-famous green, baffling painters, baffling poets, shining on the lip of the precipice,” ...
( Category: History January 1,2023 )
The Muslims of Medieval Italy by Alex Metcalfe
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Metcalfe

2 See the classic article by Antonio Marongiu, ‘A model state in the Middle Ages: the Norman and Swabian kingdom of Sicily’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 6/3 (1964): ...
( Category: History January 1,2023 )
Rethinking the Inka by Frances M. Hayashida
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Frances M. Hayashida

Figure 8.7. Usnu position in relation to the equinox sunrise: (a) schematic plan; (b) picture captured on March 21, 2015, from one end of the tiyana. Figure 8.8. Solar alignments ...
( Category: Bolivia January 1,2023 )
The Enigma Story: the Truth Behind the 'Unbreakable' World War II Cipher by John Dermot Turing
epub |eng | 2022-04-01 | Author:John Dermot Turing [Turing, Dermot]

A vehicle adapted for SLU reception, in the North African campaign. Further rules on use of ‘Ultra’ precluded indoctrinated officers being placed in combat zones where they were at personal ...
( Category: World War II January 1,2023 )
Hiking Washington's History by Judy Bentley
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Judy Bentley

THE HIKE Before beginning your hike up the Cowlitz Trail from the Soda Springs Campground, check out its namesake. Take a short walk back along Forest Road 4510, find a ...
( Category: Americas January 1,2023 )
A State of Nations by Ronald Grigor Suny
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald Grigor Suny

among [forms of] repression, the most effective are: the deportation of bandits' families who are hiding their members, the confiscation of their property, and its distribution to pro-Soviet peasants. If ...
( Category: Americas January 1,2023 )
Roman Britain's Pirate King by Simon Elliott;
epub |eng | 2022-08-30 | Author:Simon Elliott;

It is unclear where the ‘barbarous radiates’ detailed here were struck, though unofficial mints in London and Richborough are candidates. Certainly radiates and other coins, official or not, played a ...
( Category: Rome January 1,2023 )
Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947 by Kevin C. Kearns
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Kevin C. Kearns [Kearns, Kevin C.]

WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY At 6:20 on Wednesday morning the curious CIE rescue convoy, comprising assorted vehicles and passengers, pulled into Dublin. A few reporters who had got wind of the ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica January 1,2023 )
The Decline of Iranshahr by Peter Christensen;
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Peter Christensen;

Chapter 14 Kirman As indicated by the tax assessments, Kirman occupied a somewhat peripheral position within Iranshahr. It was an arid land of dispersed settlements, far from the imperial centers, ...
( Category: Middle East January 1,2023 )
British Tanks by Pat Ware
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Pat Ware

Infantry Tank Mk IV (A22)–Churchill With a total of 5,640 units–some sources suggest even more–constructed over a five-year period, the Churchill was the second most numerous British tank of the ...
( Category: Conventional January 1,2023 )
The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights by Rachel Hall Sternberg
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Rachel Hall Sternberg

CHAPTER 6 Paths through Time Just as the Silk Road that connected ancient China with Central Asia and the Mediterranean for millennia was not a single well-worn route or road ...
( Category: Greece January 1,2023 )
H-Bombs and Hula Girls: Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea by Michael Johnston
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Michael Johnston [Michael Johnston]

Cooper recalls ‘a pearl fishing excursion with John Marsters, a direct descendant of the original William Masters’, whose name has been corrupted over the years to Marsters since this was ...
( Category: Nuclear January 1,2023 )
The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships by Harold Dick
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Harold Dick [Dick, Harold]

The takeoff at Frankfurt was normal and the ship proceeded via Cologne to the English Channel. Light winds from the southeast to northwest were encountered during the day but at ...
( Category: Aviation January 1,2023 )
Greek and Latin From an Indo-European Perspective by Coulter George;Matthew McCullagh;Benedicte Nielsen;Antonia Ruppel;
epub |eng | | Author:Coulter George;Matthew McCullagh;Benedicte Nielsen;Antonia Ruppel;

1Compounded forms and derivatives must be excluded from a discussion of paradigmatic ablaut patterns, because they do not allow firm conclusions about their bases (cf. Schindler (1975b) 260). 2See, e.g., ...
( Category: History January 1,2023 )
James IV by Norman Macdougall;
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Macdougall;

NOTES 1. T.A., i, cliv–clv; 345–350. 2. Ibid., i, 312–3. 3. Cal. State Papers (Spain), i, No. 210. 4. E.R., x, xi, xii, xiii, passim. 5. Charles A. Kelham, ‘Bases ...
( Category: Scotland January 1,2023 )

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