Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 1939-01-25 | Author:Sigmund Freud [Freud, Sigmund]

¹ I do not share the opinion of my contemporary Bernard Shaw, that human beings would only achieve anything good if they could live to be three hundred years old. ...
( Category: Psychology January 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

The syntax might be faulty, but the fervour is evident. When they were not at prayer they debated predestination, election, justification and reprobation. They also discussed more political affairs. Ought ...
( Category: Europe January 24,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-18 | Author:Willekes, Carolyn [Willekes, Carolyn]

These were the allies of Sparta: all the Peloponnesians within the Isthmus except the Argives and Achaeans, who were neutral; Pellene being the only Achaean city that first joined in ...
( Category: Military January 24,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

* * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream by Marcus Tullius Ciceronis *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DE AMICITIA, SCIPIO'S DREAM *** ...
( Category: Philosophy January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-22 | Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]

Tunnel Dr Jean Kerisel, the eminent French engineer whose work in the Subterranean Chamber of the Great Pyramid we are already familiar with,49 has recently taken the geological evidence further ...
( Category: Archaeology January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

23 Faith of our fathers The failure of Wyatt’s rebellion, and the subsequent arrival of Philip, lent confidence to the queen. The pace of religious reform, or perhaps of religious ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Publius Syrus [Syrus, Publius]

501-600 501. To depend on another's nod for a livelihood is a sad destiny. 502. Compulsory silence is intolerable when one burns to speak freely. 503. Methinks you are unhappy, ...
( Category: Philosophy January 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd

22 The magical machines Two brothers, John and Thomas Lombe, erected a manufactory in 1719 on an island in the River Derwent. It housed a silk engine which became the ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Wickham-Jones [Wickham-Jones, Caroline]

FIGURE 28 A nineteenth-century view of the Brough of Deerness. It is likely that the settlement in the Brough of Birsay included monks, and there were other monastic sites in ...
( Category: Europe January 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:The Editors of LIFE

RICHARD T. NOWITZ A man rides a donkey through the Old City, just as Jesus once did. © NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON/ART RESOURCE, NY A Piero della Francesca painting made circa ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 6,2019 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Wells, Peter S.

THE EARLY IRON AGE, HALLSTATT C (800–600 BC) At Grosseibstadt in Bavaria, a group of seven burial mounds was excavated in 1954 and 1955. The grave in Mound 1 is ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 5,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:John H. Rosser [Rosser, John H.]

Hagia Sophia, Constantinople. Facing northeast. Byzantium’s greatest church, whose influence was such that subsequent Byzantine churches had one or more domes. However, no Byzantine church was ever again attempted on ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides January 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mayor, Adrienne

Hephaestus’s self-moving tripods and automated female servants have piqued the interest of historians of robotics. Their glamor overshadows yet another set of automated objects that have received less attention, although ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

CONVOYS TO RUSSIA On October 20, 1621, boatmen on the Thames saw moored in the river five ships that had recently returned from the distant north. They came from the ...
( Category: Americas December 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-01 | Author:Cole, Myke [Cole, Myke]

VIII MAGNESIA, 190 BC: NO REFUGE FOR HANNIBAL Antiochus was displaying to him on the plain the gigantic forces which he had mustered to make war on the Roman people, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 24,2018 )