Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Washington, George [Washington, George]

Address at the End of His Presidency SEPTEMBER 19, 1796— FIRST PUBLISHED IN PHILADELPHIA FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Moore, Christopher [Moore, Christopher]

“Joshua, you’re scaring me,” I said, talking to the disembodied voice that floated before me in the temple. “Where are you?” “I am everywhere and nowhere,” Joshua’s voice said. “How ...
( Category: Humor October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Will Durant & Ariel Durant [Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel]

intellectual liberty? Has all the progress of philosophy since Descartes been a mistake through its failure to recognize the role of myth in the consolation and control of man? "He ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Ken Albala

9 Phaseolus vulgaris: Mexico and the World Think of the epitome of bean, the bean that embodies absolute beanity and it will almost certainly be a variety of the single ...
( Category: History October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade

Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Barbara Nadel [Nadel, Barbara]

Chapter 17 * * * Çetin İkmen had often wondered how it would feel to be a citizen of another country. He was Turkish and proud to be so, but ...
( Category: Cozy October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Thomas A. Foster [Foster, Thomas A.]

Franklin and French Beauties As for Franklin's reputation while a widower in France, today Franklin appears to be the harmless older man and not the threatening sexual deviant. The "French ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Zarghuna Kargar [Kargar, Zarghuna]

Wazma’s Story In 2005 I went back to Afghanistan after more than ten years’ absence. I had left Kabul as a child and I was now returning as a young ...
( Category: Women October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Katharine Quarmby [Quarmby, Katharine]

Strikingly, over half of all Irish Travellers in prison were there for property offences, compared to thirty per cent of prisoners from the general population. ‘All forms of theft tend ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Nikil Saval [Saval, Nikil]

“Today,” Harrington concludes, ruefully, “you see such formerly robust individuals, now mild of mien, poking along our corridors in groups and committees with administrative papers in their hands. They have ...
( Category: Buildings October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-14 | Author:Georg Ebers [Ebers, Georg]

Katuti had taken quite a new interest in Paaker since she had heard of his procuring the philter. No other young man of the rank to which they belonged, would ...
( Category: Egypt October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-04 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

“Is it?” said Rollo. “Yes,” said his father, “I think it is the biggest gnomon I ever saw. “But how are you going to mark the hour lines, Rollo?” asked ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Tom Merritt [Merritt, Tom]

April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin of the USSR made a 108-minute orbital flight in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, becoming the first human in space. April 25, 1961 - Robert ...
( Category: History & Culture October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Steven Johnson

Cholera victim It was the first mass chlorination of a city’s water supply in history. Once word got out, however, it initially seemed as though Leal was a madman or ...
( Category: History of Technology October 8,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Nell Irvin Painter

Sounding a note that grew louder and louder, Il Proletario reached a ringing conclusion: “Not race struggle but class struggle.”19 BUT IT was too early, and Il Proletario’s exhortation fell ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 1,2014 )