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The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Francis Bacon [Bacon, Francis]

Chapter XIX Dædalus, or Mechanical Skill Explained of Arts and Artists in Kingdoms and States THE ancients have left us a description of mechanical skill, industry, and curious arts converted ...
( Category: Medieval Thought March 21,2020 )
Death As a Process by John Pearce Jake Weekes
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:John Pearce,Jake Weekes

Mortuary ritual and personal identity It was argued above and in the introduction to this paper that a military identity was very important to the Batavian population. The Batavians supplied ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )
Woeful Second War by Terry Deary
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Terry Deary

Funny food One way to win a war is to starve the enemy to defeat. Cut off their food supplies. Of course, the enemy is trying to do the same ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )
Character by Samuel Smiles
epub |eng | 2018-10-04 | Author:Samuel Smiles [Smiles, Samuel]

Duty—Truthfulness "I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty." * * * "Duty! wondrous thought, that workest neither by fond insinuation, flattery, ...
( Category: Inspirational March 21,2020 )
The Gaming Table by Andrew Steinmetz
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Andrew Steinmetz

CHAPTER IX. GAMBLING IN THE UNITED STATES. It is not surprising that a people so intensely speculative, excitable, and eager as the Americans, should be desperately addicted to gambling. Indeed, ...
( Category: Criminology March 21,2020 )
Shaking the Family Tree by Buzzy Jackson
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Buzzy Jackson

Chromosomes DNA is a molecule. This molecule contains a person’s (or any organism’s, but we’ll stick to humans here) complete genetic code. Most of that genetic material lives in the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 21,2020 )
Front-Line Thames by Michael Foley
epub |eng | 2013-06-20 | Author:Michael Foley

An old map of the Thames from the Tower to Greenwich. MILLWALL Fire was an enemy that seemed to strike quite often at the shipyards on the banks of the ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
epub |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Turnip ‘ON 8 JUNE it will be six months since my new life began. Your letters are piling up on the dresser, your drawings on my wall, and since ...
( Category: Special Needs March 21,2020 )
How Children Learn by Linda Pound
epub |eng | 2012-06-08 | Author:Linda Pound

Putting the theory into practice The notion of the zone of proximal development emphasises the importance of what has been called ‘scaffolding’. This relies on careful observation of what children ...
( Category: Educational Psychology March 21,2020 )
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay by Sarah Ann Pinto
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Ann Pinto

Superintendents regularly used the stomach pump on patients who ‘obstinately’90 refused food in the asylum, despite the dangers it involved. As Surgeon Gillanders noted: ‘Its repeated use is highly dangerous ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 21,2020 )
Blighty Brighton by Various
epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Various [Various]

'Official' photograph of The Dome as a hospital ward. THE STANFORDS & THE GOBLES THE STANFORD FAMILY In 1914 the Stanfords of Preston Manor could be considered the first family ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )
Pope Alexander VI and his Court by John Burchard
epub |eng | | Author:John Burchard

ALEXANDER AND HIS FAMILY ~ ON FRIDAY, THE 20TH OF May, 1496, at six o’clock in the afternoon an entry was made into Rome through the Lateran gate by one ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )
An Introduction to the Crusades by Allen S. J.;
epub |eng | | Author:Allen, S. J.;

ILLUSTRATION 3.4 Byzantine manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Byzantine ship attacking with Greek fire (Codex Skylitzes Matritensis, Bibliteca Nacional de Madrid, Vitr. 26–2, Bild-Nr. 77, f 34 v. b). Other, ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership March 21,2020 )
The Battle of Actium by 50Minutes.com
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:50Minutes.com

In 32 B.C., Mark Antony received many goods from Cleopatra: 200 ships were added to the 300 they already possessed. She also gave him money and food for his army ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 21,2020 )
New Free Chocolate Sex by Keith Lowe
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Keith Lowe

Matt finally pulled into the factory parking lot at ten after four, just as Sam’s train was approaching Baltimore. As he strode through the revolving doors of the factory’s main ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )

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