Great Britain
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Behlmer, George K. [Behlmer, George K.]

Figure 4.2 Tree house, Ysabel, Solomon Islands, early 1880s. Retractable rattan ladders offered some protection against headhunting raids. Once the raiders acquired rifles, however, these aeries became death traps. SOURCE: ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-06 | Author:Gilbert Keith Chesterton [Chesterton, Gilbert Keith]

Mental Breakdown in Fleet Street One of the two or three streaks of light on our horizon can be perceived in this: that the moral breakdown of these papers has ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Paddy Griffith

Firing ports for machine guns in the north-west counterscarp gallery in the main ditch at Fort Douaumont, Verdun. Note that the original stone walls of the late 19th century have ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:David Thomas

Illustration by ‘Phiz’ from Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit: Once he knew that he and his banking empire were doomed, Mr Merdle borrowed a knife from his stepson and daughter-in-law and ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ignacio J.N. López

Discipline Loyalty to the king was unquestioned even during mutinies, since the monarch was not blamed for the causes that provoked them. Mutinies were always due to arrears in the ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-16 | Author:Robert C. Allen [Allen, Robert C.]

Inequality within the working class If we left the matter here, we would have a view of working class living standards that was neither optimistic nor pessimistic: In the first ...
( Category: Industrial Relations March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Martin Pugh [Pugh, Martin]

10 ‘Speak for England’: Labour and the Second World War The Second World War proved to be a crucial watershed in British politics; it dissolved the mood of apathy that ...
( Category: Political Parties March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-20 | Author:Roger Bootle

North–south splits Perhaps the most appealing form of euro break-up is a split of the eurozone into two, euro-north and euro-south. What is particularly intriguing about this idea is the ...
( Category: Economic History March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Vickers

23. Alice Itinerant Alice brightened considerably after her transfer to Merano. In October 1932, Louise was relieved to hear that Alice liked being there, and Victoria told Dr Binswanger that ...
( Category: Royalty March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Tracy Kasaboski & Kristen den Hartog

The very next day the demand for a better defense system grew loud. Disregarding DORA, people signed petitions and staged protests, and by the time the Zeppelins revisited in October, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Bennett

CHAPTER SIX THE MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS The resources of the infant Royal Army Medical Corps were soon overwhelmed by the scale of the conflict in South Africa. The Corps had only ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-07 | Author:Wilton J. Oldham

T H Ismay receiving the Freedom of the City of Belfast, 1899. J Bruce Ismay is standing behind his father After they returned to Liverpool the attacks continued again and ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Edmund Burke [Burke, Edmund]

By these regulations taken together, besides the three subordinate treasuries in the lesser principalities, five other subordinate treasuries are suppressed. There is taken away the whole establishment of detail in ...
( Category: History & Theory March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Doran, Susan;

The combination of persuasion and veiled threat was sufficient to ensure the wedding took place.95 By contrast, Elizabeth was always unforgiving when her maids engaged in sex outside marriage. She ...
( Category: Women March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rhian E. Jones

7 ‘Maid, spirit or man’: Rebecca’s Image in Public Discourse Chapter 5 examined the disjuncture between the feminine identities assumed by male Rebeccaites during protest, and the masculine descriptors employed ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2020 )