Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Bates [Bates, Stephen]

By 1815 Captain Barclay was having troubles of his own and he was certainly not fighting Napoleon, having retired from the army after the Walcheren expedition so he could devote ...
( Category: Great Britain November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Sparrow, James T.

The boys on the 74 fighting fronts of the United Nations do not care whose hands, white or black, make the arsenals of war so long as they can receive ...
( Category: National October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Good Day, Columbus 4 I walked past Vasco da Gama’s body with premonitions of typhoons. I was in Portugal, at the Mosteiro dos Jéronimos, right where Europe started to redefine ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Richard Beck

What else? “There were a total of 49 photo lineups that were shown,” Gits said. “Presumably, unless the police department was making up suspects, somebody had pointed to each one ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 21,2015 )
epub | | 2015-04-13 | Author:Massimo Montanari, Beth Archer Brombert

*Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus, referred to as Probus in Italian.—Trans. †Only in Italian: sapore/sapere (flavor/knowledge), sapidità/sapienza (tastiness/wisdom).—Trans. CHAPTER XIII Rich Food, Poor Food THE HISTORY OF food has a powerful ...
( Category: Cultural October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Cindy Hval

SOLIDAYS CLOWNING AROUND ON THEIR HONEYMOON, FLA, 1955. Because it was a weekend, they had difficulty getting their blood tests and obtaining a marriage license. Once they accomplished these tasks, ...
( Category: World War II October 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen Buchmann [Buchmann, Stephen]

Flowers to Avoid: Don’t Eat These! We can’t talk about eating flowers fresh out of your garden without mentioning some important caveats, the do’s and don’ts of eating the daisies. ...
( Category: Trees October 15,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Hazan

Establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety; representatives ‘on mission’ to the front The Convention did not confine itself to reorganizing the army. During the critical ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Henry I. Shaw [Shaw, Henry I.]

More than 200 Japanese soldiers alone were killed in a frenzied attack in the sandspit where the Tenaru River flows into Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel). On the 9th, Whaling’s force, ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tosh, John

In classical mythology Clio was the muse who inspired historians, just as other muses inspired poets and musicians, etc. When Clio is invoked today, the implication is that history is ...
( Category: Historiography October 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Richard Tarnas [Tarnas, Richard]

The Forging of Newtonian Cosmology Although Kepler’s mathematical and Galileo’s observational support assured the success of the heliocentric theory in astronomy, the theory still lacked a more encompassing conceptual scheme, ...
( Category: History & Surveys October 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

THE IMPERIAL KNOW-ALL Kaiser Wilhelm II also disliked Berlin. For a start, it was far too free-thinking and disrespectful of royalty. Nevertheless, Germany needed a capital to match his ambitions, ...
( Category: Germany October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K.]

* * * VII. THE MODERN SURRENDER OF WOMAN But in this corner called England, at this end of the century, there has happened a strange and startling thing. Openly ...
( Category: History & Theory October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Charles Heyman

Conversion to Role (CTR) Once a pilot has been converted onto type at Middle Wallop, he or she will proceed to a Regiment. At the Regiment a special CTR course ...
( Category: Historical October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-05 | Author:Charlie Connelly

Chapter Twenty-Four All the refugees had gone now, except one. All of them would come back in the weeks that followed to thank Nellie for her kindness and hospitality, and ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 11,2015 )