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Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte
epub |eng | 2004-06-14 | Author:Bret Harte [Harte, Bret]

Thus appealed to, Bracy, the express messenger, stepped forward in Yuba Bill's place. "It's nothing particular, gentlemen," he said, with a laugh, "only it seems that some man called Spindler, ...
( Category: Europe October 14,2020 )
Vikings: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Vikings, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson by History Captivating
epub |eng | 2018-11-29 | Author:History, Captivating [History, Captivating]

Chapter 4 – Murder Most Foul By all accounts, life was good for Erik in Iceland until the 980s. After the death of his father, Erik married Thjodhild Jorundsdottir and ...
( Category: Europe October 9,2020 )
Somme 1914-18: Lessons in War by Martin Marix Evans
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Martin Marix Evans [Evans, Martin Marix]

The First Tanks in Battle Early in the war it had become apparent that the trench systems, protected with barbed wire, supported by pre-ranged artillery and armed with machine-guns, were ...
( Category: Europe October 2,2020 )
Ireland by David Cabot
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:David Cabot

Also in Mayo, near the southern border of the county, is a much overgrazed sessile oak and silver birch wood struggling to survive. The Erriff river valley wood at Erriff ...
( Category: Natural History August 7,2020 )
The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades by Paul M. Cobb
epub |eng | 2014-07-24 | Author:Paul M. Cobb

- 6 - The Fallen Tent With the death of Nur al-Din in 1174, the seesawing of Frankish and Muslim fortunes in the Near East came to a sudden halt. ...
( Category: History August 6,2020 )
Inventory by Darran Anderson
epub |eng | | Author:Darran Anderson

Storm Lantern It is the night of April 15, 1941. Easter Tuesday. Everyone with any choice is sleeping. A cold wind is scything along the river, off Magilligan. A full ...
( Category: Historical European Biographies August 6,2020 )
Canterbury and the Gothic Revival by Lawrence Lyle
epub |eng | 2012-12-16 | Author:Lawrence Lyle

The ‘Canterbury Vauxhall’. By 1836 the pleasure gardens at St Augustine’s Abbey had lost appeal, as had Mrs Baker’s Theatre with its seasonal productions. Mr Stanmore’s efforts were unable to ...
( Category: Architecture August 6,2020 )
Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Paul Goldberger

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning Buildings enter our memories as characters in films; they are characters in novels, and they even play a role in cartoons. Would Charles Addams’s characters ...
( Category: Criticism August 6,2020 )
Sicily by Sandra Benjamin
epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Sandra Benjamin [Benjamin, Sandra]

THE BARBARY PIRATES The offensive of Charles’s grandparents Ferdinand and Isabella culminated in Spain’s expulsion of its large Muslim population. Muslims had lived in Spain for seven centuries, and the ...
( Category: Essays August 6,2020 )
Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire by O'Neill Daniel;
epub |eng | | Author:O'Neill, Daniel;

BURKE ON TAXATION, COMMERCE, AND EMPIRE Ireland’s ambiguous imperial status, as a kingdom possessed of its own legislature but also as an economically dependent colony, generated many eighteenth-century political debates ...
( Category: Europe August 6,2020 )
Burden of Guilt by Daniel Allen Butler
epub |eng | 2010-07-24 | Author:Daniel Allen Butler

If Germany is beaten and Austria is beaten, it is not England and France who will emerge preeminent in Europe. It will be Russia. . . People will rub their ...
( Category: Europe August 6,2020 )
To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova
epub |eng | 2020-08-14 | Author:Kapka Kassabova [Kassabova, Kapka]

Fraser saw long stretches of the Roman road, then they’d suddenly plunge into a precipice, suggesting that the shape of the valleys had shifted over time. Riding here around the ...
( Category: Essays August 6,2020 )
Apollo 11 by David Whitehouse
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:David Whitehouse [David Whitehouse]

As if the conditions weren’t bad enough for Cernan, they were having problems with the radio. Stafford continues: I think we went south of Hawaii, then, before we hit the ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
Gaia by Lovelock James
epub |eng | 2000-08-14 | Author:Lovelock, James

Fig. 6. The fluxes of oxygen and carbon between the major reservoirs of the Earth’s atmosphere, surface, and oceans. Quantities are shown in units of terramoles. A terramole of carbon ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 6,2020 )
Philosophy of Science Volume 1 by Mario Bunge
epub |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Mario Bunge [Bunge, Mario]

Fig. 5.5 The theorem on the right branch of the tree entails no emprically testable consequence: it can be supported or undermined from above only. Finally, we shall not demand ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 6,2020 )

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