epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Colin Dickey

CHAPTER TEN FRAGMENTS OF A MYSTERY Mysteries surround Beethoven’s death; perhaps they always will. With the temporal bones lost, an accurate diagnosis of his deafness may never be made, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Raphael, Ray [Raphael, Ray]

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A GLOBAL WAR The French navy and army that enabled the victory at Yorktown were no strangers to their British adversaries. The American Revolution marked the fifth ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Herodotus

BOOK IX CALLIOPE MARDONIUS, when Alexander upon his return made known to him the answer of the Athenians, forthwith broke up from Thessaly, and led his army with all speed ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Herodotus

BOOK IV MELPOMENE AFTER the taking of Babylon, an expedition was led by Darius into Scythia. Asia abounding in men, and vast sums flowing into the treasury, the desire seized ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Herodotus

Glaucus when he heard these words earnestly besought the god to pardon his question; but the Pythoness replied that it was as bad to have tempted the god as it ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Herodotus

So the Cnidians ceased digging, and when Harpagus advanced with his army, they gave themselves up to him without striking a blow. 175. Above Halicarnassus, and further from the coast, ...

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yvonne M. Ward

Chapter 8 THE WELCOME FOREIGNER: PRINCE ALBERT TIME AND AGAIN, IT has been observed by biographers how unlike his father Albert was. Born in 1819, Albert was the second son ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:David Rohrbacher

The bureaucracy With the exception of the army, the Roman empire had always operated with a surprisingly small number of government employees by modern standards. Tax collection and the erection ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman G. Finkelstein

Notes Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s “Crazy” Thesis: A Critique of Hitler’s Willing Executioners 1. New York, 1996. 2. The New York Times, 27 March, 2 April, 3 April 1996. The New ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

At the Green Dragon Tavern, I asked Austin Hess whether he was worried Sarah Palin was hijacking the Tea Party. He shrugged. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

We come now to the gaping hole in the argument. It is the assumption that in the conditions prevailing after the Armistice, in the passion of anti-German feeling, in the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wineburg, Sam

Thirteen of fifteen multiple-figure drawings by girls (87 percent) depicted men and women together, and twelve of the fifteen (80 percent) depicted images of couples or families (see Figure 5.2). ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Loewen, James W. [W., Loewen, James]

Lies My Teacher Told Me 6. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of... Perhaps the most telling criticism Frances FitzGerald made in her 1979 survey of American history textbooks, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David North [North, David]

25 Thatcher, pp. 14-17. 26 Thatcher claims that “Deutscher simply puts thoughts into his subjects’ heads for which there is no evidence.” Thatcher cites a passage from Deutscher “which compares ...