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The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry Hunt
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Hunt [Hunt, Terry]

Figure 7.7. Stone foundation of a typical “boat-shaped house,” or hare paenga. Our excavations of the deposits within hare paenga foundations located near Ahu Akahanga and along the northwest coast ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania April 21,2018 )
The Living and the Dead by Paul Hendrickson
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Paul Hendrickson [Hendrickson, Paul]

A WITNESS. Major Richard V. Lundquist is coming out of the eighth-corridor entrance on the Potomac side. He’s on his way to an economics class in another building. Someone behind ...
( Category: Americas April 21,2018 )
The Cabanatuan Prison Raid by Gordon L. Rottman
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon L. Rottman

Besides armed guerrillas, there were large numbers of auxiliaries of all ages and both genders, who did whatever was necessary to support the cause, serving as messengers, lookouts, guides, and ...
( Category: Military April 21,2018 )
Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War II's Most Daring Submarine Raid by Sasgen Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Sasgen, Peter [Sasgen, Peter]

In San Diego, Lockwood had received reports on the Seahorse’s excellent mine recon and near-fatal run-in with Japanese patrol boats. Then from the Bonefish came Edge’s radio message outlining the ...
( Category: Military April 21,2018 )
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
epub |eng | | Author:Shen Fu

PART IV The Delights of Roaming Afar I have travelled about working in government offices for thirty years now, and the only places in the world I have never been ...
( Category: Historical April 20,2018 )
Eminent Historians by Arun Shourie
epub |eng | 2014-04-20 | Author:Arun Shourie

18 The appeal of ‘The Theory’, and the antidote to it ‘Progressives’ of the kind we have been surveying have always recognized the power of ideas and evidence. And, therefore, ...
( Category: World April 20,2018 )
Annals & Antiquities of Rajasthan by James Tod
epub |eng | | Author:James Tod [Tod, James]

Author’s Note: A second version is that Umra escaped from the fort by urging his horse to jump from the fifty-metre-high ramparts and into the moat. Today a statue of ...
( Category: Asia April 20,2018 )
Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty by Clements Jonathan
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Clements, Jonathan

9 THE WALL AROUND THE SEA The news was not well received in Beijing. On hearing that Coxinga was only days from Nanjing, the 21-year-old Emperor of Unbroken Rule flew ...
( Category: Military April 20,2018 )
The Frozen Chosen by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
epub |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

CHAPTER SIX WHERE IS THE ENEMY? As quickly as they had first appeared on the battlefields of North Korea, the forces of the People’s Volunteer Army disappeared over the three ...
( Category: Military April 20,2018 )
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated) by Bruce Cumings
azw3 |eng | 2005-09-17 | Author:Bruce Cumings [Cumings, Bruce]

The guerrillas hole up in villages in the day, he said, “and come out at night.” Thus he “instituted a campaign of burning these huts.” General Barr flew over the ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2018 )
The Search for the Japanese Fleet by Jourdan David W
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Jourdan, David W.

• • • Thursday, June 4, 1942. 1045 YST, on board the cruiser Nagara. Nothing about Midway was going as planned for the Japanese. Earlier that day, Kidō Butai had ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2018 )
The Samurai: Swords, Shoguns and Seppuku by Hubbard Ben;
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Hubbard, Ben;

And now the whole sea was red with the banners and insignia that they tore off and cut away, so that it looked like the waters of the Tatsuta-gawa when ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2018 )
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet by Gyalo Thondup
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Gyalo Thondup [Thondup, Gyalo]

____ SMUGGLING THE TRAINEES out of India was not so difficult. Relations between India and the United States were strained. Nehru had joined the Badung Conference in April 1955 where ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 19,2018 )
THE COLONEL WHO WOULD NOT REPENT: by Salil Tripathi
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Salil Tripathi [Tripathi, Salil]

SEVEN THE BRAVE ONES here is a sense of finality about death. Someone dies; those who loved the person grieve. The person who has died is now beyond pain, feeling ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 19,2018 )
The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song Dynasty by Peter Lorge
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-12-30 | Author:Peter Lorge [Lorge, Peter]

The Northern front The Northern force’s commander, Wang Quanbin’s, first task was to secure his line of communication to Jianmen, the key defense position protecting Shu. In order to do ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2018 )

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