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Putin Country by Anne Garrels
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Anne Garrels

ELEVEN THE BELIEVERS In the early 1990s, Chelyabinsk, like the rest of Russia, was flooded with foreign missionaries seeking lost souls. Reforms had unleashed a free market for the nation’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union April 11,2016 )
A Pauper's History of England by Peter Stubley
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Stubley

Peasants harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks, on a calendar page for August in the Queen Mary Psalter, c.1310. (British Library Illuminated Manuscripts Collection) Peasants driving oxen and bulls, on a calendar ...
( Category: England April 10,2016 )
Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare by Sarah Downing
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Downing

A German Courtier, c. 1580. As Shakespeare joked in Much Ado about Nothing, he is ‘… a German from the waist downward, all slops …’. He is also wearing his ...
( Category: Fashion Design April 10,2016 )
For Liberty and Glory by James R. Gaines
epub |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:James R. Gaines

All through 1788, in each of the thirteen states, Americans debated the strengths and weaknesses of their new Constitution, whose agenda was in some ways identical to the one emerging ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 10,2016 )
101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle by Ryan Hackney & Amy Hackney Blackwell
epub |eng | 2006-12-13 | Author:Ryan Hackney & Amy Hackney Blackwell [Hackney, Ryan]

63 Irish Language The Gaelic language of Ireland is one of the most distinctive in Europe. It’s one of the few Celtic languages that survived the onslaught of Germanic and ...
( Category: Trivia April 8,2016 )
British Sheep Breeds by Susannah Parkin
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Susannah Parkin

North Ronaldsay is a small breed, indigenous to the Orkneys. The sheep survive on the seashore, living on a diet consisting entirely of seaweed. Native to the Orkneys, this is ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry April 8,2016 )
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Rutherford

An idealised interior, designed by Barry Parker for his brother Stanley, in Letchworth Garden City, 102 Wilbury Road. Arts and Crafts and historicist styles were strong themes, as epitomised in ...
( Category: England April 8,2016 )
Grey Wolves by Philip Kaplan
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Philip Kaplan

THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED The North Atlantic shipping lanes were the most dangerous places to be for the Allied merchantmen of the convoys early in World War Two. Later, ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
Forgotten Land by Max Egremont
epub |eng | 2011-09-26 | Author:Max Egremont

15: The Great Wilderness East and north from Olsztyn, you enter the lakeland, reaching the resort of Mikołajki with its masted boats on the waterfront, summer tourists and winter emptiness. ...
( Category: Germany April 8,2016 )
Black May by Michael Gannon
epub |eng | 1998-04-07 | Author:Michael Gannon [Gannon, Michael]

The secret was out, and it appeared likely that the Germans would now neutralize the centimetric wavelength in the same way that Metox had neutralized the metric. But the Telefunken ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
The Victorians and Edwardians at Play by John Hannavy
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:John Hannavy

PLEASURE BEACHES There were already a number of well-established funfairs and pleasure beaches in America when the first ride on what would become Britain’s first pleasure beach opened in Blackpool ...
( Category: Great Britain April 8,2016 )
Oxford History of Modern Europe by Blanning T. C. W.;
epub |eng | 2000-04-07 | Author:Blanning, T. C. W.;

The End of the Popular Front Blum’s difficulties over the Spanish war were a reflection of both the contradictions of his coalition and the divisions of French society. The Radicals ...
( Category: Great Britain April 8,2016 )
Setting France Ablaze by Peter Jacobs
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Jacobs

Noor Inayat Khan’s report from SOE’s Finishing School at Beaulieu dated 21 May 1943. The report has been underlined and scrawled over with comments such as ‘Nonsense’ and ‘We don’t ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage April 8,2016 )
Code Name Caesar by Preisler Jerome; Sewell Kenneth;
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Preisler, Jerome; Sewell, Kenneth; [Jerome Preisler and Kenneth Sewell]

The cable goes on to detail some of the items of freight, with deletions that its U. S. Navy translator explains were made because they “enumerated only cargo numbers and ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurie Lee [Lee, Laurie]

5. Castillo of the Sugar Canes We had come down now to the warm south coast, to a small fishing village which I shall call Castillo – though this is ...
( Category: Political April 8,2016 )

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