epub |eng | 1908-08-14 | Author:Aeneas Gunn

14 For over four months we had wrestled with luck for a house, only to find we had very little use for it for the time being, that is, until ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Tim Watts

This dynamic isn’t unique to Australia, but it’s dominated our public debate since John Howard was elected in 1996. ‘I do not accept that there is underlying racism in this ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter FitzSimons

13 September 1875, farewell to San Francisco Sadly, squaring away finances has proven to be a matter of months, not weeks. But at last it is all done and John ...

epub |eng | | Author:Siobhán McHugh [Siobhán McHugh]

CHAPTER 8 AN ENGINEERING WONDER In 1962, the Snowy Mountains Scheme was nominated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the engineering wonders of the world. It ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stuart Kells

14 Coming and going ALARGE PART OF life at the Abbotsford Convent revolved around arrivals and departures. New inmates, novices, students, visitors: people were always arriving—and there was an outward ...

epub |eng | | Author:Terry Smyth [Smyth, Terry]

Four months of rough weather later, Baudin finds that some of his furred and feathered passengers are as poorly as his crew, many of whom are falling ill with dysentery. ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-28 | Author:Nick Brodie [Nick Brodie]

The judge convicted Kilty, but also suggested that ‘if you want to shoot people you must go to the front and practice on the Germans’.4 Other soldiers misused their guns ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:Gordon L. Rottman

(12) The bipod case was used alongside this M16 rifle maintenance equipment kit. (13) The M14E2 small arms equipment case was issued with the M14E2/A1 automatic rifle, but was sometimes ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-01 | Author:Szonyi, Michael; [Szonyi, Michael]

Middle Era (317–1260) The Middle Era (317–1260) saw profoundly changed attitudes and cultural practices resulting from huge shifts in population (from north to south, and from rural areas to urban ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:C. K. Stead

On the road On 20 March I wrote ‘Spring is making another of its spectacular false starts’; but they couldn’t go on being false, and soon there were camping expeditions. ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Peter Jessup [Jessup, Peter]

Death and disasters THE RELATIVELY small size of New Zealand’s population means that disasters have far–reaching effects in the community. It’s often said that every household has some connection to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Fitzsimons

CHAPTER NINE THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION The man who does no more than carry out his instructions will never get very far in discovery.1 Captain Cook, 1775 The Southern Continent having been ...

epub |eng | 2003-05-14 | Author:Nick Bleszynski

AFTER AN HOUR OF FRUITLESS CIRCLING, the Boers realised that there was little chance of taking the fort and Beyers pulled his men back to lick their wounds and count ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Andrew Tink

27 All the way with LBJ A keen spear fisherman with an athlete’s body, Harold Holt seemed made for the ‘swinging sixties’. Photographed in a wet suit, posing with his ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

It was late in Washington, and Adler was up late, again, working in his office. SecState was usually a busy post, and lately it had been busier than usual, and ...