mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:Jane Orcutt

Once again that night I retired before Phineas. I managed to hang the canvas curtain by myself, but I heard him enter, undress for bed, and lie down in his ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Jack Goldstein

Oda Nobunaga Tokyo The word Tokyo translates as Eastern Capital. The city is home to more than 13 million people. Tokyo was originally called Edo, however it changed its name ...

epub |eng | | Author:Turnbull, Stephen;

whom faced considerable danger. Ieyasu is recorded as having made good practice with an arquebus, indicating that he was in the thick of things. Later in the year Nobunaga returned ...

epub |eng | 2020-09-03 | Author:Michael Wood

His travels over the next twenty-seven years took him to the Yellow River and the Yangtze, the Five Sacred Mountains, the glorious wooded hills around Huangshan, and the coasts of ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2020-08-28 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

The Ming oppressed the Jianzhou (Jurchen clan) and favored two other clans, the Hada and Yehe. The Ming violated the agreement made with Nurhaci in the past. (The Ming agreed ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Timothy Brook

Archbishop Laud was a controversial figure to his contemporaries and a complicated person to himself. A celibate vicar of modest upbringing, Laud rose to the powerful post of Bishop of ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Romen Bose [Bose, Romen]

Endnotes 1 Baker, Catherine M.S. Personal Papers, 96/34/11. London: Imperial War Museum, 1996. 2 Kirby, Major General S. Woodburn. The War Against Japan: The Surrender of Japan, vol. 5. London: ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Nigel Cawthorne

US Marines at Khe Sanh prepare defences during the siege, 1968. The base was hit by over 1,000 rounds of incoming fire some days. Any movement above ground attracted the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fernandes, Leela.

A Santosh Nagar women’s ritual: ‘that throwntogetherness’ Sunday, December 5, 2010 (Dark Moon of Margashira): Three women bearing worship trays quietly gather, late one morning, in a spacious private courtyard ...

mobi |eng | 2010-05-19 | Author:Alice Mabel Bacon

There seems no doubt at all that among the peasantry of Japan one finds the women who have the most freedom and independence. Among this class, all through the country, ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Ronald M. Davidson [Davidson, Ronald M.]

The surviving anonymous Sanskrit commentary is exceedingly blunt: the Śabara is Vajradhara himself on the top of Mount Meru, and the five-faced (which can be either a lion or Śiva) ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-01 | Author:Ira Mukhoty [Mukhoty, Ira]

*Two hundred lengths of the ten-foot rod made up a kos. †Hobson-Jobson’s Glossary lists the Akbari kos as measuring 2m. 4 f. 183 1/3 yards. *A biographical memoir. THE LION ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Becky Stephen [Stephen, Becky]

VISITING AN INDIAN HOME Hospitality People you’ve just met may invite you home for tea, dinner, or even for a short stay. To show appreciation for their hospitality, take a ...

epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Ankit Panda

Hwasong-14: The First Milestone July 4 is best known as the United States’ Independence Day, but it also holds special significance for North Korean missile launches in the twenty-first century. ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Gandhi, Leela;

Mutual Transformations As I have been arguing, postcolonialism pursues a postnational reading of the colonial encounter by focussing on the global amalgam of cultures and identities consolidated by imperialism. To ...