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A Short History of the Ottoman Empire by Charles Horne
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Horne

INTERNAL DECAY AND ITS TEMPORARY ARREST UNDER MURAD IV ~ [AUTHORITIES: AS BEFORE. ALSO STIRLING-MAXWELL, “Lon John of Austria”; Dyer, “History of Europe”; Menzies, “ Turkey Old and New."] The ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Warsaw 1920 by Adam Zamoyski
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Zamoyski

The Battle for Warsaw, 14 August Russian calculations of Tukhachevsky’s forces at the beginning of the battle for Warsaw vary between totals of 101,269 and 132,189 front-line combatants; according to ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
The Republic by Plato by Benjamin Jowett
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Benjamin Jowett

BOOK II. With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning. For Glaucon, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 18,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy by Hans Mommsen
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Hans Mommsen

CHAPTER NINE The Nazi Breakthrough THE breakthrough of the NSDAP as a mass movement was the decisive event in the last phase of the Weimar Republic. At times the NSDAP ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 18,2020 )
Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World by Juliette Harrisson
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Juliette Harrisson

Part 3 The afterlife in literature 6 Cosmology, psychopomps, and afterlife in Homer's Odyssey Safari F. Grey Introduction The nature and role of death is a subject of study which ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Paradise Lost and Regained by John Milton
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:John Milton

Of woe and sorrow. Sternly he pronounc’d The rigid interdiction, which resounds Yet dreadful in mine eare, though in my choice Not to incur; but soon his cleer aspect Return’d ...
( Category: British & Irish March 18,2020 )
The Shepherd and the Morning Star by Willie Orr
epub |eng | | Author:Willie Orr

Lambing cleek — crook for catching sheep. Shed — Divide one sheep from another. Braxy — carcass of dead sheep. Blaw — Gypsy travellers’ word for meat. The work with ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2020 )
The Ring of the Niblung by Richard Wagner
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Wagner [Wagner, Richard]

This ring of mine I give thee; Let it pay for thy runes. Of whatever deeds I did The virtue lies therein. By my hand was the dragon grim, Who ...
( Category: European March 18,2020 )
Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History by Naomi Lloyd-Jones & Margaret M. Scull
epub |eng | | Author:Naomi Lloyd-Jones & Margaret M. Scull

8.D. Hume (1983) The History of England, Vol. 3 (Indianapolis, IN), p. 206; p. 220. 9.J.G.A. Pocock (1975) ʻBritish History: A Plea for a New Subjectʼ, Journal of Modern History, ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
The Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable by Mary Godolphin
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Mary Godolphin

CHAPTER XII. OUR fields near Tent House had by this time brought forth good crops of wheat, maize, beans, and peas; but as the work of the Cave had for ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 18,2020 )
Greeks and Barbarians by James Thomson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Thomson [Thomson, James]

* * * VI GODS AND TITANS It was an ancient hypothesis that the Gods are only deified men. A certain Euêmeros suggested this. His favourite illustration was Zeus; that ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Myths of Greece and Rome by H. A. Guerber
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:H. A. Guerber [Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)]

As, rapt and spellbound, we survey The horrid coils which round thee play, And mark thy wild, enduring smile, Lit by no mortal fire the while, Formed to attract all ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 18,2020 )
Vermin, Victims and Disease by Angela Cassidy
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Angela Cassidy

5.3 In Sickness and in Health? Caring for Tuberculous Badgers As explored in Chap. 2, by 1975 MAFF had built a consensus around its new policy regime, in which the ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
Events, Dear Boy, Events by Ruth Winstone
epub |eng | 2012-03-17 | Author:Ruth Winstone

Chapter Eight 1982–1990 Civil War As Giles Radice observed, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had started the 1980s badly. The decade ended with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. On a ...
( Category: Europe March 18,2020 )
The Lives of the Saints III by S. Baring-Gould
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:S. Baring-Gould [Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)]

SLOTHFULNESS AND GLUTTONY. Symbolic carving at the Abbey of S. Denis. March 15. S. Aristobulus, M., 1st cent. S. Longinus, M., 1st cent. S. Nicander, M. in Egypt, circ. A.D. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 18,2020 )

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