Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

86 As M. de Valois and the P. Ruinart are determined to change the Mosella of the text into Mosa, it becomes me to acquiesce in the alteration. Yet, after ...
( Category: Rome May 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:T. S. Eliot

Per me si va nella città dolente; per me si va nell’ eterno dolore; per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la ...
( Category: United States May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Norman Davies [Davies, Norman]

The land from which the Casa Savoia took its name has now belonged to France for more than a century and a half. The départements of Savoie (chef-lieu Chambéry) and ...
( Category: Essays May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]

There were other versions of changing the world. For readers of Marcuse, even such as Tariq Ali, for example: . . . the long march did not mean “boring from ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Beckert, Sven [Beckert, Sven]

Famine victims, probably 1899, India (illustration credit 11.12) Experiencing a new kind of uncertainty thanks to world market integration, and squeezed by moneylenders, cotton growers in India, Brazil, Mexico, and ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs May 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Stedall, Jacqueline [Stedall, Jacqueline]

4. The front page of Robert Smith’s arithmetic book, Greenrow Academy, 1832 The Hersee collection includes five mathematical workbooks by Robert Smith from the years 1832 and 1833 (see Figure ...
( Category: History May 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Richard Rhodes

ELEVEN Babi Yar Kiev fell on 19 September 1941. “Hold it at all costs,” Stalin had ordered Budënny. The dull-witted marshal had positioned more than a half million men in ...
( Category: Holocaust May 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Bogosian, Eric

The judge asked, “How many days did you march?” Tehlirian replied, “I do not know. After leaving the city, already on the first day my parents were killed.” Justice Lehmberg ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Ben Dupre [Dupré, Ben]

The false face of Islam Given the staggering success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was perhaps inevitable, and certainly unhelpful, that al-Qaeda—however nebulous an entity it is in reality—would ...
( Category: Reference April 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-10 | Author:Dorothy Hartley

HUNTING—ILLUSTRATIONS (Page 56)—(D), c. 1460.—Noble in hunting dress. Note the long boots with coloured turnover tops. Note the boar-spear with its characteristic cross-bar. This prevents the spear from being engaged ...
( Category: Style & Clothing April 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Charles G. Addison

CHAPTER IX. The downfall of the Templars—The cause thereof—The Grand Master comes to Europe at the request of the Pope—He is imprisoned, with all the Templars in France, by command ...
( Category: Christianity April 7,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Flanders, Judith [Flanders, Judith]

JUPITER: Deuce take the fellow; where is Bacchus now? MERCURY: He’s at the Punch Bowl, drunk as David’s sow. JUPITER: Where’s Mars? MERCURY: He’s gone to drill. JUPITER: Where’s Juno, ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Jacky Hyams

CHAPTER SEVEN THE ’60S ARE OVER A large house on Islington’s Liverpool Road where a New Year’s Eve party is in full swing. People drift from room to room, voices ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Gail Collins

10. “You’re Gonna Make It After All” “YOU WALK INTO A MEETING�� AND NOW THERE’S ANOTHER WOMAN.” In September 1970 Mary Tyler Moore—the actress who had broken television’s no-pants rule ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Judith Flanders

Adelaide Bartlett had a background that sounds suspiciously like that of a penny-dreadful heroine. Some contemporary crime historians have suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a son of ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )