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Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim & Victor Davis Hanson
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Raymond Ibrahim & Victor Davis Hanson

To keep the Christians in their place it did not suffice to surround them with a zone of famine and destruction. It was necessary also to go and sow terror ...
( Category: Middle East September 1,2018 )
Diggers, Hatters & Whores by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:Stevan Eldred-Grigg [Stevan Eldred-Grigg]

Andrew Bools found such a tract in his tent one day. He was struck by what he called ‘unutterable anguish’. His sins ‘stood out in dread array’. He fell to ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania August 30,2018 )
The Idea of Progress by Bury J. B.;
epub |eng | 1932-08-26 | Author:Bury, J. B.;

2 The Encyclopaedia (1751–1765) has rightly been pronounced the central work of the rationalistic movement which made the France of 1789 so different from the France of 1715. It was ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 27,2018 )
Female Executions by Geoffrey Abbott
epub |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Geoffrey Abbott

The ghastly execution was carried out in the marketplace in Winchester, the frail 71-year-old lady kneeling over the block and submitting to decapitation without resistance, onlookers averring that 'she died ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 26,2018 )
The Seven Deadly Virtues by Jonathan V. Last
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan V. Last

Because of its inherent difficulty, chastity, unlike most other virtues, has taken a kick in the shorts even from plenty of literary and theological giants. Aldous Huxley called it “the ...
( Category: Humor August 24,2018 )
Far More Terrible for Women by patrick minges
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:patrick minges

The next story was told to Mrs. Heard by her father, who experienced it as a slave boy. “My father said when he was a boy, him and two more ...
( Category: Americas August 23,2018 )
Walls by David Frye
epub |eng | | Author:David Frye

PART THREE * * * THE WORLD IN TRANSITION The Horrible Bombard CONSTANTINOPLE, AD 1453 * * * Constantine Palaeologus sleeps now. He has joined that select company of heroic ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
Bedroom by Michelle Perrot
epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Perrot

Chambrées At first workers converged in “communal rooms,” as Villermé termed them in his description. In Sedan, “as in all industrial towns, single men live in pensions. For 25 or ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
Roaring Camp by Susan Lee Johnson
epub |eng | 2000-12-17 | Author:Susan Lee Johnson [Johnson, Susan Lee]

A stock certificate from the Tuolumne County Water Company, 1854. Most stockholders were white men, but the owner of this share was an Elisabeth Klemm. Note the signature of the ...
( Category: Americas August 23,2018 )
Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 by Scholem Gershom
epub |eng | 2016-08-21 | Author:Scholem, Gershom

( Category: Judaism August 22,2018 )
Poisoned Arrows by George Monbiot
epub |eng | 2016-08-20 | Author:George Monbiot [George Monbiot]

There were no signs of people for another two hours downriver. The forest that had given way to mudbanks on the riverside now closed back over, and it was still ...
( Category: Asia August 21,2018 )
Palestine by Nur Masalha
epub |eng | 2018-08-19 | Author:Nur Masalha

NOMINAL SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS PRACTICAL SOVEREIGNTY Today there are many formally sovereign states in the Arab world, but not all of them are genuinely sovereign or independent when it comes to ...
( Category: Middle East August 20,2018 )
Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals): Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Richard J. Evans [Evans, Richard J.]

NOTES 1 L. Stone, ‘The Revival of Narrative’, in Stone, The Past and the Present (London, 1981 ), pp. 74–96, provides a good introduction to these developments, though the word ...
( Category: Europe August 20,2018 )
Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders by Steven F. Hayward
epub |eng | 2005-10-03 | Author:Steven F. Hayward [Hayward, Steven F.]

Socialism wants to pull down wealth; Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests—Liberalism would preserve them in the only way they could justly be preserved, by ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2018 )
Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America by Terry Eagleton
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton, Terry]

Nature and the Will America’s disquiet with the body is not just the familiar tale of dieting, obesity, frenetic exercising, or trying to thread your jaws together with wire and ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 19,2018 )

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