Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:David F. Noble

While Parsons was trying in vain to commercialize N/C, others were getting into the act. Directly or indirectly supported by the Air Force, Giddings and Lewis, together with General Electric, ...
( Category: Industrial Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Daniel Diehl

Twelve From Russia with Hate: André Chikatilo (1978–90) Life has always been hard in the Russian states and it was especially true in 1936 when André Chikatilo was born in ...
( Category: Archaeology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:Tad Friend [Friend, Tad]

______ SPORTS WERE the Shipley boys’ vehicle for advancement. David Hunt, an intense and meticulous young man who rubbed his forehead wearily when problems arose, was our leader. I was ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Elizabeth Abbott [Abbott, Elizabeth]

DIVORCE AT THE DAWN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Until World War I, Canada remained hostile to divorce. Only Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and British Columbia had the divorce courts recommended ...
( Category: Marriage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Jennifer Michael Hecht]

13 Eating In the medieval West, on feast days, people gorged themselves in animalistic sensualism. In periods of fast they rejected food, sex, and physical effort as antithetical to holiness. ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Lawrence Scott Sheets [Sheets, Lawrence Scott]

GRENADE, LIGHTLY TOSSED It was a sultry summer day in 1993. Two old men in a Moskvich sedan picked us up at the side of the road after we crossed ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-01 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

The Civil War within the Civil War In Barcelona towards the end of April a series of developments and incidents increased an already tense situation. On 16 April Companys reshuffled ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

23 The Civil War within the Civil War In Barcelona towards the end of April a series of developments and incidents increased an already tense situation. On 16 April Companys ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Charles Glass [Glass, Charles]

Although a Gestapo officer, he planned to return to Yonkers as soon as the war ended. After the suitcases had been cleared, Senegalese men, probably prisoners of war, carried them ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Juliet Nicolson [Nicolson, Juliet]

The writer Rudyard Kipling promoted two views: cherishing the values of the past, he also welcomed the exciting opportunities of the new. It was in 1902 that he moved into ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]

Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]

Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Thomas Keneally [Keneally, Thomas]

The Australian colonies cherished Britishness to the extent that in South Australia in 1856, legislation had been passed to exclude non-British settlers and naturalised aliens from membership of the legislature. ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Stuart Laycock

CHAPTER 6 The Last of Rome Whatever may or may not have happened in 367-369, the account by Ammianus of the so-called ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’ is significant in another way. It ...
( Category: Archaeology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Berresford Ellis [Ellis, Peter Berresford]

The Vedas and Upanishads show that the Hindu year was indeed divided into two halves in a fashion analogous to the Celtic year. The Vedic references, such as the Bhadaranyaka, ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )