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The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) by Komnene Anna
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Komnene, Anna [Komnene, Anna]

BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Classics) by
azw3 |eng | 1973-05-30 | Author:

THE TALE OF KAFUR THE BLACK EUNUCH KNOW, my friends, that when no more than eight years of age I had already cultivated a remarkable habit of telling one big ...
( Category: Multicultural April 19,2020 )
Theaetetus (Classics) by Plato
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Plato

Is There a Platonic Theory of Perception in Theaetetus? An affirmative answer is often given to this question: see especially Cornford [2], Modrak [109], Nakhnikian [111] and Reed [114]. Despite ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Fragments (Penguin Classics) by Heraclitus
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
The Nibelungenlied (Classics) by Unknown
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO How Dancwart slew Bloedelin BLOEDELIN’s stalwarts were all in readiness and they set out with a thousand hauberks and came to where Dancwart sat at table with the ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology April 19,2020 )
The Conquest of New Spain (Classics) by Bernal Díaz
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Bernal Díaz

The Entrance into Mexico Early next day we left Iztapalapa with a large escort of these great Caciques, and followed the causeway, which is eight yards wide and goes so ...
( Category: Europe April 19,2020 )
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers (Classics) by Psellus Michael
azw3 |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Psellus, Michael [Psellus, Michael]

THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE It was a marvel of beauty that Nature brought into being in the person of this man, so justly proportioned, so harmoniously fashioned, that there was ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State April 19,2020 )
The A to Z of German Cinema by Robert C. Reimer & Carol J. Reimer
epub |eng | 2008-04-14 | Author:Robert C. Reimer & Carol J. Reimer

– P – PABST, GEORG WILHELM (1885–1967). Although his directing career spanned four decades, from the Weimar Republic to the postwar years, and his works include some of the most ...
( Category: Performing Arts April 18,2020 )
The War of the Lance by Margaret Weis
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Margaret Weis [Weis, Margaret]

They were upon him, the smaller male and the young female, with daggers that would bite deeper than his fangs could. The wolf, who knew nothing about rage or vengeance ...
( Category: Epic April 18,2020 )
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 by Patrick Turnbull
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Turnbull

The sector selected by the Republican War Council was that of the Ebro river from Mequinenza in the north to Amposta near the mouth, the main blow to be delivered ...
( Category: Europe April 17,2020 )
Amore and Amaretti - A Tale of Love and Food in Italy by Victoria Cosford
epub |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Victoria Cosford

All through the afternoon and the evening, and until it becomes dark, we eat and talk and laugh and pose for photos. I am exhausted – the day has been ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2020 )
Trusted Mole by Milos Stankovic
epub |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Milos Stankovic

SIXTEEN Operation Grapple, Bosnia-Hercegovina 20 July 1994 – Sarajevo It was a balmy Sarajevan evening – still air, soft light, warmth still radiating out of old brickwork, and high above ...
( Category: Military April 16,2020 )
I Speak of Germany (RLE Responding to Fascism) by Hillson Norman;
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Hillson, Norman;

Allowing for characteristic repetition and Nazi enthusiasm, that is as may be. But during the Conference a British delegate of wide experience—Mr. R.J.Mackay, former General Manager of the Research Groups ...
( Category: Europe April 16,2020 )
Exploring the River Fowey by John Neale
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:John Neale

At isolated Bodmin Road station, now Bodmin Parkway, an attempted mail train robbery took place in 1974. Since that time the incident has become known as ‘Cornwall’s Great Little Train ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 16,2020 )
From Influence to Inhabitation by James E. Christie
epub |eng | | Author:James E. Christie

Just like that, the conjecture that Jupiter was inhabited became an assertion that each planet had its own inhabitants. Not only that, he also concluded that each must have moons ...
( Category: Astronomy April 16,2020 )

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