Europe
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Appian of Alexandria [Alexandria, Appian of]
The Dual Texts Marble portrait of Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from AD 161 to 180 — Appian claimed to have addressed several emperors, including Marcus Aurelius, while working as a ...
( Category:
Europe
March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-13 | Author:J. P. Toner
Even the counters used to play were abusive, with particular scores having names such as ‘adulterer’, ‘fucker’, ‘tart’, ‘cunt-licker’.96 Part of the fun of this came from subverting the phrases ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:John H. Haaren & A. B. Poland [Haaren, John]
IV Scipio now began to march towards the great, rich city of Carthage. He captured a number of towns and a great deal of treasure. In a few weeks, however, ...
( Category:
Biographies
March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]
10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...
( Category:
World
March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 1894-03-01 | Author:Ammianus Marcellinus & Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891
vineyards of enemies, they neither desire nor touch anything, from fear of poison or witchcraft. 79. They perform all the secret functions of nature -with the most scrupulous secrecy and ...
( Category:
Europe
March 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Vasily Grossman [Grossman, Vasily]
10 THE FIRST thing I saw in Armenia was stone; and what I took away when I left was a memory of stone. We do not remember every feature of ...
( Category:
Europe
March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Ian Kershaw [Kershaw, Ian]
III Bombardment from Soviet heavy artillery just before the offensive began gave a clear indication that the Red Army had been alerted to the timing of ‘Citadel.’[163] At least 2, ...
( Category:
Military
February 27,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Davies
No summary of wartime POWs would be complete without mention of the controversy surrounding the alleged maltreatment of German prisoners by the US military in 1945. The men had surrendered ...
( Category:
Military
February 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-23 | Author:Kelly, Christopher [Kelly, Christopher]
The empire writes back Of course, it would be too simple to think of Plutarch or Pausanias as active opponents of Roman power. They would not have supported Boudica and ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
February 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:Vanessa R. Schwartz [Schwartz, Vanessa R.]
Novel technologies of representation Photography, which made a fledgling appearance in the late 1820s in the experiments of inventor Nicéphore Niépce, became firmly entrenched as a process by Louis Daguerre ...
( Category:
World
February 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Houston, Rab [Houston, Rab]
The best that can be said about society before the Middle Ages is that it was hierarchical, for the Norse threat had created a new focus on sustaining a military ...
( Category:
Europe
February 24,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Peter Sarris [Sarris, Peter]
A frontier society For much of this period, the nature of the warfare fought by the Byzantines against the Arabs was rearguard and defensive. Once the Arabs had established effective ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:John Robertson [Robertson, John]
Political economy What confirms Rousseau’s centrality is that his challenge was answered. None was clearer in doing so, moreover, than Adam Smith. As we have seen, Smith was without illusion ...
( Category:
Philosophy
February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-29 | Author:Jackson, Ashley [Jackson, Ashley]
Chapter 4 Rise and fall The British Empire grew in stages over the course of many centuries: from ‘internal colonization’ within the British Isles in the Middle Ages to seventeenth-century ...
( Category:
Europe
February 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-26 | Author:Paseta, Senia [Paseta, Senia]
The aftermath of the Easter Rising Public reaction to the Rising was probably more mixed than some historians have allowed, but it could by no means be described as popular. ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
February 24,2018 )
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