epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Gregory S. Aldrete [Aldrete, Gregory S.]

GLADIATORS On some holidays, the state provided public entertainment, of which there were two broad categories. The first was ludi, meaning “games.” These took many forms, including theatrical performances, dances, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Archer, Liam [Archer, Liam]

Elizabeth I March 1534, Anne Boleyn fell pregnant again. Sometime between then and January the following year, she had the fatal miscarriage. The King’s confidence in his wife’s ability to ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.D. Robb

"Scan for transfers from any and all accounts under the name of Redford to previously requested accounts." Scanning. No transfers recorded. "Okay, okay, let's try this. Scan for transfers from ...

mobi |pt | 2012-02-21 | Author:Dictionary of World History

Back - New Search Koryo A Korean kingdom that gave its name to the whole country. From 986 its kings ruled a united Korea from their Chinese-style capital, Kaesong. Chinese ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Donnelly, Mark P & Diehl, Daniel [Diehl, Daniel]

This illustration by Howard Pyle shows the arrest of an old woman in Salem Massachusetts on the charges of witchcraft. It was the result of an hysteria which swept through ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |pt | 2007-10-18 | Author:Iain M. Banks

'And who fired first?' Perrund asked quietly and without moving. Her head was tipped, lowered over the 'Secret Keep' board, studying her next move. They were sitting in the visiting ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

In 1926, Philadelphia held a world’s fair, called the Sesquicentennial Exposition, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The enterprise was a fiasco from the start. The ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Kent Flannery & Joyce Marcus [Flannery, Kent & Marcus, Joyce]

Land and Power in Tonga At the heart of the Tongan invasions of other islands was an important difference between the aspirations of Samoan and Tongan chiefs. Samoan ali’i, as ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AT THE LORRAINE Motel, a stunned and deeply sleep-deprived Ralph Abernathy started off the morning by giving a brief press conference in the motel parking lot, just below the now-infamous ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Lily Koppel

On March 23, 1965, Betty sat in her living room with the Mercury wives, old pros watching the countdown. Her boys and Sam the Dog, “a sad-eyed basset hound,” were ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Louise Foxcroft

8. In the 1870s weighing scale companies began producing their machines for people as well as for foods and produce. The first public penny-scales began to appear on railway stations, ...