History
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Kenneth L. Holmes [Holmes, Kenn Eth L.]

1There is a short biography of Isaac N. Rhyne in An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County (Chicago, 1889), pp. 612–13. 2An excellent summary of tis route is found in ...
( Category: Reference September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-10 | Author:Jim Crumley [Crumley, Jim]

The man from the Advertiser, who clearly revelled in his reporting duties throughout the saga of the whale, and took more than his share of liberties, was there when the ...
( Category: Scotland September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Robert Nield [Nield, Robert]

2. Bickers 2011, 327. 3. S. Wright, 688. 4. Morse 1910, 3: 112. 5. Fairbank 1975, 1208. 6. C&D 1900, 290. 7. Morse 1910, 3: 112. 8. The China Mail, ...
( Category: China September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Dikötter, Frank; [Dikötter, Frank;]

Expansion Interest in eugenics exploded with the New Culture Movement. Professor Chen Yinghuang, author of one of the first anthropological textbooks in China, briefly mentioned how eugenics was a science ...
( Category: China September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Ivan Krastev & Alan L. McPherson [Krastev, Ivan & McPherson, Alan L.]

But despite such overwhelmingly protectionist tendencies regarding foreign influence in Korea and the Philippines, support for globalization among Asian nations is highest in Korea and second highest among the forty-four ...
( Category: Antietam September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-18 | Author:Elana Wilson Rowe [Wilson Rowe, Elana]

The Russian Offshore Strategy Russia has a continental shelf of 6.2 million km2, of which four million are considered to be of potential interest for oil and gas production (Strategiya ...
( Category: African History September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-24 | Author:Derek Turner [Turner, Derek]

North of Scunthorpe is another dimming power base—Normanby Hall, in its 300-acre estate. The Hall was built between 1825 and 1829 by British Museum architect Robert Smirke for the Sheffields, ...
( Category: African History September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-09 | Author:Doyne Dawson & James D Dawson [Dawson, Doyne & Dawson, James D]

Realistic history provides an enhanced awareness of recurrent situations and possibilities, always informed by appreciation of the uncertainties of war. It focuses on the decisionmaking process: “The special function of ...
( Category: Automotive September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-08 | Author:Terence Dooley [Dooley, Terence]

2. ‘A sad picture of the terrible power of fire’ Once the fire was started, trying to quench a raging inferno was inevitably futile: estate firefighting services were useless and ...
( Category: Europe September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:unknow

6 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, “De consideratione ad Eugenium Papam,” 1.3.4–1.4.5, in Bernard’s Opera, eds. J. Leclercq, C. H. Talbot, and H. M. Rochais (Rome, 1957–1977), 3:397–399. For the translation, ...
( Category: History September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-23 | Author:Denise Yim; [Yim;, Denise]

Thus the years of formal education, from five to sixteen, were over. These twelve years Margaret viewed as a time of innocence and purity, where duty and happiness intersected in ...
( Category: History September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Kenneth L. Holmes [Holmes, Kenneth L.]

1 This is Harriet Loughary’s version of a quote from the introduction to a work by the 18th century Italian writer, Cesare Beccaria (1736–1794), Treatise on Crimes and Punishments. 2 ...
( Category: Reference September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

PIERRE LOTI A FEW years ago the author of these remarks received from an observant friend then in Paris (not a Frenchman) a letter containing a passage which he ventures ...
( Category: World September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

The Grahams invited me to supper on the following Saturday evening. They lived near Handsworth Park, in a quiet, tidy, tree-line road of semi-detached stucco houses with rose-filled gardens. Like ...
( Category: Social & Cultural September 20,2022 )