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A Little History of the United States by James West Davidson
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:James West Davidson

24 THE NEXT BIG THING ONE OF THE CONQUISTADORS WHO explored for treasure in Spanish America liked to display a motto below his portrait. It read, “By compasses and the ...
( Category: Archaeology May 13,2020 )
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Aldhouse-Green Miranda
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Aldhouse-Green, Miranda [Aldhouse-Green, Miranda]

X-ray of the Yde Girl’s upper body showing the pronounced and disabling curvature of her spine, a condition that would have caused her to walk painfully and with a lurching ...
( Category: Prehistory April 2,2020 )
What We Have Lost by James Hamilton-Paterson
epub |eng | | Author:James Hamilton-Paterson [Hamilton-Paterson, James]

An earlier version of this chapter appeared in the RAF Historical Society’s Journal, ‘Cold War Air Systems Procurement’ (2017). * Empire of the Clouds (Faber, 2010). 7. Motorbikes ‘Drunk on ...
( Category: Archaeology March 16,2020 )
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis by Alice M. W. Hunt
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:Alice M. W. Hunt

PHYSICS OF X-RAY FLUORESCENCE Although X-rays have long been used to image the skeletal structures, or to examine the contents of bags and packages at security checkpoints, our interest herein ...
( Category: Pottery & Ceramics March 10,2020 )
The Story of Britain by Roy Strong
epub |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Roy Strong

48 The Pursuit of Happiness Virtually everyone benefited from being a citizen of the richest country, from the grandest duke to the humblest labourer. The wealth pouring in had to ...
( Category: Archaeology March 5,2020 )
Viking Friendship by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-06 | Author:Jon Vidar Sigurdsson [Sigurdsson, Jon Vidar]

God’s Other Friends Both the Old Norwegian Homily Book and the Icelandic Homily Book have sermons on the martyrdom of Stephen (d. c. 35).36 He was the first Christian martyr, ...
( Category: Friendship March 1,2020 )
spain 1808 by carr
epub |eng | | Author:carr

respectable and solid class than the nouveaux riches of the midcentury. The career of Juan March, who became the richest man in modern Spain, represents the persistence of an earlier ...
( Category: History June 6,2014 )
Eat Thy Neighbour by Daniel Diehl
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 )
Britannia by Stuart Laycock
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 )
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent Flannery & Joyce Marcus
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 ...
( Category: Fossils March 24,2014 )

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