France
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Charlesworth, Brian & Deborah Charlesworth [Charlesworth, Brian]

To illustrate selection of an advantageous mutation, consider the arms race between humans and rats, in which we try to develop rat poisons, and rats evolve resistance. The rat poison ...
( Category: France December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Blanchard, Jean-Vincent [Blanchard, Jean-Vincent]

Chapter 8 War (1635–1637) In the busy morning hours of May 19, 1635, the guards at Brussels’s Hau gate witnessed a curious spectacle. A proud-looking man arrived on horseback, wearing ...
( Category: France December 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Peter Grose

11 Smugglers The money that was smuggled to the Plateau from Switzerland appears to have been delivered by a relay team rather than a single courier. As already mentioned, one ...
( Category: Holocaust December 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Abidor, Mitchell [Abidor, Mitchell]

JEAN GRAVE7 Editor of Les Temps Nouveaux, who took no part in the Commune but whose opinion seemed of interest to us, the opinion of a revolutionary of today on ...
( Category: European December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kuisel, Richard F.

Trade Warriors Trade, which in theory and practice bridged the Atlantic, also contributed, like security, to rancor in the United States and France. Trouble peaked in the early 1990s over ...
( Category: European December 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Diving Bell;the Butterfly

Through a Glass, Darkly Hunched in my wheelchair, I watch my children surreptitiously as their mother pushes me down the hospital corridor. While I have become something of a zombie ...
( Category: Strokes November 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Patrick Agte [Agte, Patrick]

Following the conclusion of the battle of Villers-Bocage several of the 1st Company’s Schwimmwagen drove into the town to recover those killed on 13 June 1944. On their left is ...
( Category: World War II October 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Mitchell, Allan [Mitchell, Allan]

Iron, ore, scrap metal 8,000,000 tons Other metals and ores Copper 240,580 tons Aluminum 247,678 tons Bauxite 679,080 tons Machines Locomotives 283 units Freight cars 834 units Automobiles 424 units ...
( Category: World War II October 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Islands and Raids In the year since the Franco-German armistice the undeclared war between the former allies Britain and France had ranged over Africa, the Middle East, and ...
( Category: Great Britain October 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Jay Gitlin

Mrs. Ramsay Crooks. The marriage of Marianne Pelagie “Emilie” Pratte (1806-1863), daughter of Bernard Pratte and Emilie Labbadie, to Ramsay Crooks, right-hand man of John Jacob Astor, in 1825 facilitated ...
( Category: State & Local October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Davis, William Stearns [Davis, William Stearns]

CHAPTER XVI. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, AS MASTER OF EUROPE THIS volume is a history of France. It is not a biography of Napoleon. It is not a history of the wars ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Clegg, Melanie [Clegg, Melanie]

‘Madame, We are filled with happiness and venture to think that the last arrangements proposed to us, which we have performed with zeal and respect, are a further proof of ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Colin Jones

C) PATRIOTISM À L’AMÉRICAINE Despite the failure of the Turgot experiment, the young king still retained goodwill in the country at large – indeed, so unpopular had the Controller-General become ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )