Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Maltin, Tim

The fact that the Californian was off Titanic’s port bow after Titanic had come to a stop, meant that Titanic therefore presented only her port bow towards the Californian after ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-23 | Author:Visser, Margaret

HELPINGS We no longer eat from a common dish, but are each served, or each take, a portion on a plate. Seated upright on our separate chairs, we keep elbows ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference September 4,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Bernard Lewis & Buntzie Ellis Churchill

8. The Neighborhood From the time when I began to read classical Arabic and later other Islamic texts, I was struck, and fascinated, by the rich vein of humor in ...
( Category: Middle East September 4,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Elizabeth Norton

It was not long before Anne Askew, now in London, came to the attention of the authorities.65 In March 1545, she was taken to be examined at Saddler’s Hall, to ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Walvin

In all this, those seeking freedom found encouragement and support among black friends who were already free and who were conscious of the social and legal possibilities for freedom in ...
( Category: Europe September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]

Press victims were not only from the working class. The fact that his father was a ship's captain did not save the young John Newton from the press. Men from ...
( Category: Europe September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Linda Hirshman

The Long Way What a way it had been. Mixner, raised in the 1940s on a farm in rural New Jersey, like Clinton in Hot Springs, Arkansas, grew up without ...
( Category: Social Policy September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

20 Iustitia On one of the three exposed corners of the ducal palace, there is a sculpture concerning the judgement of Solomon. On the west façade of the palace is ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
epub | | 2015-06-22 | Author:Jean-Baptiste Duroselle [Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste]

2. THE BEGINNING OF NON-INTERVENTION IN SPAIN Léon Blum was unlucky. On July 17, six weeks after forming the Popular Front government, Spain was rocked by a military coup. The ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Richard North [North, Richard]

It was clear that nerves were raw. There were “many expressions of bitterness” at the apparent impossibility of stopping German raiders from doing what they liked. This issue was “bewildering ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Gregor Von Rezzori

It was never revealed to me in what exactly his duties at the office consisted. No doubt some desk-job activities, though it remained unfathomable how and when he accomplished these. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 3,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Stone, Oliver & Kuznick, Peter [Stone, Oliver]

Augusto Pinochet greeting Kissinger, June 1976. After overthrowing Allende in a CIA-aided coup ordered by Nixon himself, Pinochet seized power and proceeded to murder more than 3,200 opponents and jail ...
( Category: Americas September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Carroll, Leslie [Carroll, Leslie]

CAROLINE MATHILDE 1751–1775 QUEEN OF DENMARK: 1766–1772 (BANISHED) As king of England, George III, who acceded to the throne in 1760, had the authority, if not also the obligation, to ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Selina Hastings

CHAPTER SIX The War Disappointment over the failure of Pigeon Pie to attract significant notice on publication was quickly submerged in larger events. In the second week of May, Peter ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-07 | Author:Jackson, Lee [Jackson, Lee]

T H E G R E AT U N WA S H E D 149 stated the rules in the first-class bath: ‘All bathers to use bathing drawers either their ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 2,2017 )