World
epub |eng | 2022-03-18 | Author:Adam Ouston

David Wynford Carnegie Indeed newly-discovered it was, for on 17 September 1892 the prospector Arthur Wellesley Bayley had received a reward lease of twenty acres after discovering some five hundred-odd ...
( Category: Aviation June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-21 | Author:Josef Lewkowicz

11 Betrayal Lolo quickly returned to his trade, as a professional thief. Freed from the jeopardy of the job, which had condemned him to the camps as a common criminal, ...
( Category: World June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-23 | Author:Elise Loehnen [Loehnen, Elise]

WHERE DOES SEXUAL DESIRE LIVE IN OUR BODIES? As I’ve begun to tease out my feelings, I’ve found some solace in the research of sexologist and psychologist Meredith Chivers, at ...
( Category: Women in History June 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-22 | Author:Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman, Matthias van Rossum

The labour classes mentioned in this passage will be explained later. For the moment, let us just note the salary rates: the free artisans (carpenters and blacksmiths) received one ganta ...
( Category: Slavery & Emancipation June 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-05 | Author:Christoph Witzenrath

The chroniclers of “Letopisets nachala tsarstva” and “Tsarstvennaia kniga” thus offered a third option for reconciling the profundity of Orthodox ideology with the reality of Muslims functioning in influential roles ...
( Category: World May 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harry Thompson

Part TWO Chapter EIGHT Valparayso, Chili, 2 November 1834 ‘Raise tacks, sheets an’ mains’l haul We’re bound for Vallaparayser round the Horn! Me boots an’ clothes are all in pawn ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture May 26,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacques Dalarun;

Rudolph starts with the subject of preaching, but then jumps suddenly to the chapter of 1220. What particularly caught this witness’s attention was Dominic’s call for his own removal from ...
( Category: World May 23,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Triona Holden

Joan painted a relatively modest picture of Norah but she was notorious for getting drunk on pink champagne and behaving badly. The press loved her because she was known to ...
( Category: Women in History May 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-15 | Author:Debbie J. Callahan & Henry Stern [Callahan, Debbie J. & Stern, Henry]

18 Everyone Loves a Man in Uniform Horst put in his application for the police job and got accepted. Naturally, as the youngest member, he got the graveyard shift but ...
( Category: Jewish May 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-17 | Author:Helen Rappaport

I. This statement comes as something of a surprise, if not a shock. A mixed-heritage boy with Mary in Crimea? One can only assume he was a local Tatar boy ...
( Category: Women in History May 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ulbe Bosma

Sugar behind Tariff Walls In 1937, five years after the collapse of the Java sugar industry, the Pasuruan experimental station celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. A jubilee issue of a local ...
( Category: Slavery & Emancipation May 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Paopa, Matt

Then, in June 1941, Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet pact and invaded the USSR, making significant early inroads. (Stalin had ignored warnings from the Americans and the British, as well as ...
( Category: World May 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-25 | Author:Jovan Byford [Byford, Jovan]

Figure 6.1 Touring exhibition ‘Concentration camp Jasenovac 1941-1945’, 1986 (reproduced from ‘Pukovniku ima ko da piše’, Front, 30 May 1986, 28–9; courtesy of Ministry of Defence, Republic of Serbia). This ...
( Category: Holocaust May 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Gail Braybon & Penny Summerfield [Braybon, Gail & Summerfield, Penny]

18 Joan Welsh in WAAF uniform in Trafalgar Square (Courtesy of Age Exchange Theatre Trust) Theoretically, women conscripted under the National Service Number 2 Act had a choice between the ...
( Category: World May 14,2023 )