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Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography by Pollali Angeliki; Hub Berthold;
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Pollali, Angeliki; Hub, Berthold;

Returning to Donatello’s statue, Judith’s desire of the phallus, as in the masculine-phallic Judith, would have resulted in an actual decapitation. In Donatello’s group, however, decapitation has yet to occur. ...
( Category: World July 18,2018 )
Medieval Tastes by Massimo Montanari
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Massimo Montanari

*Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus, referred to as Probus in Italian.—Trans. †Only in Italian: sapore/sapere (flavor/knowledge), sapidità/sapienza (tastiness/wisdom).—Trans. CHAPTER XIII Rich Food, Poor Food THE HISTORY OF food has a powerful ...
( Category: Anthropology July 18,2018 )
Hitler's Generals in America by Derek R. Mallett
epub |eng | 2018-06-28 | Author:Derek R. Mallett

5 Cold War Allies On April 15, 1945, a German U-Boat embarked from Kristiansand on the southern tip of Norway. U-234 carried Lieutenant General Ulrich Kessler, the German air attaché ...
( Category: Military July 18,2018 )
A Norwegian Tragedy by Aage Borchgrevink
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Aage Borchgrevink

‘It's Going to Be the Event of the Year’ The winter of 2010–11 was long, cold, clear and snowy in the capital. The frost on dark branches and the snow ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 18,2018 )
The Welsh at War: Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives by Steven John
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Steven John [John, Steven]

Another casualty of the abortive raid of 10 May was the 28-year-old Lance Corporal John Frederick Parry, a native of Llanwrig, Montgomeryshire and the son of David and Elizabeth Parry. ...
( Category: Europe July 18,2018 )
The House of Krupp by Peter Batty
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Peter Batty

CHAPTER TWELVE “We take great pride in the fact that our products have come up to expectations” JUST HOW massive a contribution Krupp’s Armaments Division made to Hitler’s war machine ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure July 18,2018 )
The Art of Renaissance Warfare by Stephen Turnbull
epub |eng | 2018-01-29 | Author:Stephen Turnbull

Chapter 9 Knights Old and New The constant theme throughout this book is one of change, as the ideals, the behaviour, the environment and the weaponry of war become transformed ...
( Category: Military July 18,2018 )
Last Assault: 1944 - The Battle of the Bulge by Charles Whiting
epub |eng | 2018-05-31 | Author:Charles Whiting [Whiting, Charles]

DAY FOUR: Tuesday, 19 December 1944. Weather: Misty and fog. No aerial activity. ‘It’s either root hog—or die! Shoot the works. If those Hun bastards want war in the raw, ...
( Category: Military July 17,2018 )
Hitler's Sectret War: The Nazi Espionage Campaign Against the Allies by Charles Whiting
epub |eng | 2018-05-31 | Author:Charles Whiting [Whiting, Charles]

Chapter Six – The Abwehr Strikes Back ‘It is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable feats in the history of espionage.’ Admiral Canaris, 1943. At one o’clock on the morning ...
( Category: Military July 17,2018 )
The Lido by Libby Page
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:Libby Page [Page, Libby]

CHAPTER 40 They were together until the end. Rosemary didn’t want to be apart from him and when one of the nurses who came to help suggested moving him to ...
( Category: Swimming July 17,2018 )
Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
epub |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:Tim Jeal

NINETEEN Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone John Rowlands, who would one day be known to the world as Henry Morton Stanley, was born in the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 17,2018 )
A Brief History of Japan by Jonathan Clements
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan Clements

Barely ten years separate the birth dates of the three generals who would finally end the constant warring in Japan. It is hence entirely feasible, although rather unlikely, that all ...
( Category: Asia July 17,2018 )
A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition by Deane Jennifer Kolpacoff; Deane Jennifer Kolpacoff;
epub |eng | 2010-07-16 | Author:Deane, Jennifer Kolpacoff; Deane, Jennifer Kolpacoff; [Deane]

Conclusion Despite all his efforts, Pope John XXII had not fully uprooted the tendency toward apostolic rigor; it returned periodically in small scattered bands of Spirituals or Fraticelli hunted by ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 17,2018 )
Kaiser Wilhelm II by Christopher Clark
epub |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Christopher Clark

Here and there the Kaiser makes little pauses, one can see that he is reflecting, folds appear upon the brow and the eye looks out into the distance until the ...
( Category: Historical July 17,2018 )
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Peter Heather [Heather, Peter]

8 THE CREATION OF SLAVIC EUROPE ONE OF THE GREAT LANGUAGE GROUPS of modern Europe, Slavic-speakers currently comprise nearly 270 million individuals, and primarily Slavic-speaking countries account for something like ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 17,2018 )

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