Historical Geography
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

The first morning we had slept late and treated ourselves to cappuccinos and pastries in a bar before taking a short bus ride to the archaeological museum, located halfway between ...
( Category: Greece August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Sylvain Tesson

7 Pirsig (Robert M.), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (William and Morrow, 1974). DAY FIVE. FROM BARYSAW TO VILNIUS At 9 A.M. we were ...
( Category: Historical Geography July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Mary-Ann Ochota

Offa’s Dyke, near Clun, Shropshire. The way earthworks are marked on OS maps, and archaeological site plans is with the ‘hachure’, an elongated triangular or drop shape with the fat ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping Excursion Guides July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-02 | Author:Philip Lee

11 As the Globe correspondent chased the story of the vice-regal fishing expedition upriver, there was a different kind of story unfolding downriver from the Matapédia train station that he ...
( Category: Rivers July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacob F. Field

KOSOVO POLJE The Battle of Kosovo (1389) marked the beginning of Ottoman domination of the Balkans, and would retain an important significance in the region for centuries afterwards. The nascent ...
( Category: Historical Geography July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Laurence C. Smith [C. Smith, Laurence]

Rivers in China and Southeast Asia are being engineered at a massive scale. Highlighted here are China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project (with east, central, and western routes), shunting water from ...
( Category: Historic April 21,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Ling Zhang

Environmental and Economic Impact of the Ponds Despite the century-long costly efforts to construct and maintain the ponds, the strategic value of the ponds was never tested by war during ...
( Category: Historical Geography April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Andrew K. Johnston [Johnston, Connor, Stephens, and Ceruzzi]

This primary atomic frequency standard, a hydrogen maser, served as a stable frequency source for the Goldstone tracking station. A backup of the Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft hanging in ...
( Category: Aviation History April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Daniel Rosenberg & Anthony Grafton

[14] * * * In 1853 Jonathan Cummings, one of the founders of the Advent Christian Association, published his stunning Prophetic Chart publicizing a new calculation of the date of ...
( Category: Historical Geography March 26,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:R. M. Ballantyne [Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)]

CHAPTER XX. Intercourse with the savages—Cannibalism prevented—The slain are buried and the survivors depart, leaving us again alone on our Coral Island. After the battle was over, the savages crowded ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Lyall Watson

PART FOUR Wind and Body We are air conditioned. Every adult has around two square metres of skin in contact with surrounding air. And, in turn, surrounds a roomful of ...
( Category: Weather March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Blom

No one shall eat without working: The Rasphuis was Amsterdam’s very Protestant answer to indigence and poverty. Several visitors to the Rasphuis reported on a special punitive feature for which ...
( Category: Weather March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Andy Bruno [Bruno, Andy]

Consolidation Lovozero only became the center of “Sami reindeer herding” on the Kola Peninsula after the death of Stalin. Visitors today are greeted by standard five-story Soviet apartment buildings along ...
( Category: Arctic Ecosystems March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Kim Mahood [Mahood, Kim]

Only Margaret can follow the story, but Pam, Jess, and I are enthralled by the rhythms and gestures of the old woman’s delivery, her hands speaking with as much authority ...
( Category: Human Geography March 11,2020 )