American History
epub |eng | 2006-01-06 | Author:Great Pictures As Seen & Described by Famous Writers

FOOTNOTES: 11 Carton, Les Trois Frères van Eyck, p. 36. 12 Marc van Vaernewijck in a MS. of 1566-8, describing the Ghent troubles, states that on the 19th of August, ...
( Category: Photography & Video October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-17 | Author:Lawrence, Bruce B. [Lawrence, Bruce B.]

“A life without His love is nothing but slow death.” Hearing, drinking, singing, burning—all of these become a Sufi reflex, evocative of the twist toward sensory religion in the endless ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 1994-08-31 | Author:S. D. Humphrey [Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)]

Fats as Accelerators.--The use of fats, oils, or greasy substances, has been one of the most emphatic prohibitions about the Daguerreotype plate. Yet it has been proved that its presence ...
( Category: Engineering October 19,2021 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Mark Stille

This remarkable photograph shows the moment of impact of the first torpedo to hit Yorktown. Another Type 91 hit the carrier seconds later. These set up a chain of events ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Robert Jennings [Jennings, Robert]

A FRONTISPIECE. In driving cattle the drover should have no dog, which will only annoy them. He should walk either before or behind, as he sees them disposed to proceed ...
( Category: Engineering October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Claude Fayette Bragdon [Bragdon, Claude Fayette]

These various triads are shown graphically in Figure 18 as triangles within a circle divided into twelve equal parts, each part representing a semi-tone of the chromatic scale. It is ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-14 | Author:Mayne Reid [Reid, Mayne]

* * * Chapter Twenty Two. The Trapper Trapped. “Well, then,” began Redwood, “the thing I’m agoin’ to tell you about, happened to me when I war a younker, long ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-21 | Author:Clive Aslet

This amounted to ‘a kind of revolution in the whole system of this useful and elegant art’. The idea that taste could be subject to revolutions was itself new. One ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Vince Beiser [Beiser, Vince]

* * * — The only real way to completely avoid the pitfalls of beach nourishment while also saving coastal cities is to move those cities inland. Retreat is a ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward [Daley-Ward, Yrsa]

now that it’s all over She says she cries over me on the train to and from work and one day it will be better but it isn’t better now. ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Ryszard Kapuściński [Kapuściński, Ryszard]

The historic role of a hare? Scholars agree that it was the Scythians who stopped Darius’s march on Europe. If this hadn’t happened, the fate of the world might have ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:B.H. Liddell Hart [Hart, B.H. Liddell]

The shortsightedness of expediency We learn from history that expediency has rarely proved expedient. Yet today perhaps more than ever the statesmen of all countries talk the language of expediency—almost ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-08-31 | Author:J.W. Ocker [Ocker, J.W.]

The story of the cursing stone of carlisle, england, should be a straightforward one. It’s a stone with a curse engraved on its surface. Sounds pretty standard for a cursed ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Carlo Ginzburg

43 The interrogations ended on the 12th of May. Menocchio was conducted back to his cell. A few days passed. Finally, on the 17th, he refused the services of a ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:László Krasznahorkai

And then, if these conditions are met and the six months are up? pinghui. After six months we have a look, to see if all the conditions have been met—if ...
( Category: American History October 18,2021 )