European History
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Richard Fletcher [FLETCHER, RICHARD]

His son al-Mu’tamid was even more accomplished. Here he remembers his youth in Silves: Salute, oh Abu Bakr, my dwellings in Silves, And ask them: do they still keep our ...
( Category: Architecture August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Calloway, Colin G.; [Calloway, Colin G.]

CHAPTER 5 The Battle with No Name A couple of months after his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington wrote, famously, “The history of ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Rick Frese

( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Fowler [Fowler, Andrew]

9 SEX MONEY POWER In mid-August 2010, Julian Assange arrived at Stockholm Airport. He was on his way to a conference he’d been invited to, run by ‘The Brotherhood’, a ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Clare Downham

Galloway The coasts of Galloway adjoin the North Channel of the Irish Sea. It was therefore of great geographical significance to the viking-rulers of Man and the Isles, whose power ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-30 | Author:Brendan O'Leary [O’Leary, Brendan]

1.5 Crying Aloud for Vengeance and the Power of a Colonial Caste Toward Union’s End, 1858–1914 The national demand…is…that the government of every purely Irish affair shall be controlled by ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Martin J. Dougherty

Queen Medb not only instigated the Cattle Raid of Cooley for spurious reasons, she also murdered her own sister. Years later, her sister’s son took vengeance when he killed her ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE

SECTION XX: CHAPTER II — OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH OF SPAIN DURING THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1810 THE situation which had been created by King Joseph’s rapid conquest of ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-08-24 | Author:Charles J. Hanley [Hanley, Charles J.]

MARCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951 Matt Ridgway’s army recaptures Seoul Word comes in to General Ridgway’s Eighth Army operations staff: a patrol from the ROK 1st Division has raised the ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-08-19 | Author:Oliver Clutton-Brock

French prisoners, the most numerous and the longest in residence, did little to help. The rumour was that they had up to six American Red Cross parcels per man, but ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Fuller DSO, Major-General J.F.C. [Fuller DSO, Major-General J.F.C.]

In July 1918 the preparations set on foot to double the Tank Corps for 1919 threw a great deal of work on to the Training Centre. Thirteen British, three Canadian, ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Reid

Salinas: perestroika without glasnost Salinas made a determined attempt to rebuild the PRI system by restoring its lost reputation for economic competence, while updating its mechanisms of political control. Though ...
( Category: Economics August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Peter Martin

FIGURE 15. The first Merriam edition of Webster’s dictionary, published in 1847–48, advertised Goodrich as editor. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, G. and C. ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-04 | Author:Harry Waldman;

Fanny Elssler (1937). Erich Waschneck and the petite blonde Renate Müller (l906–37) collaborated one final time in Eskapade, produced by Tobis, a pro–Polish and pro–American spy tale set in prewar ...
( Category: Performing Arts August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Alan W. Cooper

Severe icing was reported by some crews on this Berlin trip. Flight Sergeant Lew Lewis of the newly formed 640 Squadron, suffered icing and electrical storms on route; then his ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )