World
epub |eng | 2018-01-18 | Author:Kovály, Heda Margolius [Kovály, Heda Margolius]
Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category:
World
November 13,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:Jason Stanley
These ideas also reflect a somewhat nostalgic longing for that past world, when men believed they could simply take their places among the nation’s elite, simply by working hard and ...
( Category:
Philosophy
November 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Neil MacGregor [MacGregor, Neil]
Artemis dominates her Temple at Ephesus on this silver Roman coin c. 50 CE. Across the ancient world everybody would have recognized the unmistakable, many-breasted Artemis/ Diana, protectoress of Ephesus ...
( Category:
Radio
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:James D. White
Pravda Bogdanov’s exile in Vologda ended at the beginning of 1904. He was immediately invited to contribute articles to a new journal of ‘literature and social life’ entitled Pravda (Truth); ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-11 | Author:Mickey Podell-Raber [Mickey Podell-Raber]
Me with a friend, Tony Bennett, and my cousin Natalie. Tony was also an audience favorite at the Copa. My father was a big fan of Tony’s from the beginning ...
( Category:
Americas
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-11 | Author:Colin Wells [Wells, Colin]
The biggest problem the translators faced was generally not the difficulty of the Greek itself but the scarcity of good, accurate Greek manuscripts. Perhaps this helped give rise to the ...
( Category:
World
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Scott Christianson
The first edition of 1858 was published in black and white under the title Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. Henry Gray wrote the text, Henry Vandyke Carter created the illustrations, and ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Bruce, Scott G. (Ed.) [Bruce, Scott G. (Ed.)]
AN ARMY WHITE AS SNOW1 In the middle of the twelfth century, a story attributed to Abbot Maiolus of Cluny (d. 994) concerning the appearance of an army of dead ...
( Category:
Occult & Paranormal
November 12,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Alexander Knysh [Knysh, Alexander]
Elementary Education: The Kuttáb The process of study at the elementary level started with what we would call “rote learning.” Children as young as five–six years old would memorize Qur’anic ...
( Category:
Islam
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1905-01-04 | Author:Haggard, Henry Rider [Haggard, Henry Rider]
Chapter 14 The Court of Death Now the curtains were open. Before us appeared a chamber hollowed from the thickness of the altar, and in its centre a throne, and ...
( Category:
World Literature
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Block, Lawrence [Block, Lawrence]
On the phone with her, talking with her, I had to fight the urge to grab a cab to Lispenard Street and set about the business of protecting her. We ...
( Category:
Mystery
November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Slocum, Joshua [Slocum, Joshua]
CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category:
Water Sports
November 11,2018 )
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