World
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Michael Tyquin [Tyquin, Michael]
Chapter 4 OPERATIONS IN THE SUDAN: THE NILE EXPEDITION, 1885 The Mahdi now controlled a vast area from Daru in the west to the Red Sea, and to Gondoroko in ...
( Category:
Africa
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James D. Tabor [Tabor, James D.]
A WOMAN CALLED MAGDALENE Mary Magdalene is referred to by name only twelve times in the New Testament gospels and never again in any of the other New Testament writings. ...
( Category:
Worship & Devotion
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Stuart Maconie [Maconie, Stuart]
CHAPTER 6 MAKING A DAY OF IT Bank holidays in Silloth and Southport and a trip to see the ‘Lights’ Only virgins and generals keep diaries, they say. Samuel Pepys, ...
( Category:
Anthropology
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Peter B. Golden [Golden, Peter B.]
CHAPTER SEVEN The Later Chinggisids, Temür, and the Timurid Renaissance In the fragmenting Chinggisid world, Mongols were a privileged minority, one increasingly assimilated by their subjects. As al-’Umarî, an Arab ...
( Category:
Asia
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Charlotte Gray [Gray, Charlotte]
Dawson’s streets were paved not with gold but with mud as thick as gumbo. “Below-the-girdle stuff” was music to Jack London’s ears. Jack embraced the low-lifes. He had known poverty ...
( Category:
World
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:B. H. Liddell Hart [Hart, B. H. Liddell]
CHAPTER XV A “REGULAR” CAMPAIGN January–February, 1918 To aid Allenby, the Arabs operate against the corn-belt east of the Bead Sea which feeds the Turkish Armies—The Turks reacting, fell into ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Ami Pedahzur [Pedahzur, Ami]
The short-lived hope for peace following the Oslo Accords was shattered with the appearance of suicide-bomber attacks carried out by the Palestinian Islamic opposition movement. The frustration of the policymakers ...
( Category:
World
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Martin Howard [Howard, Martin]
Nogues bravery was laudable but his paltry forces were no match for the British troops who attacked the Morne on the 22nd led by George Prevost and Robert Brereton. Grinfield, ...
( Category:
Military
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Patrick Iber [Iber, Patrick]
Lázaro Cárdenas speaks at the closing session of the First National Conference of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional on 6 October 1963. The background portraits of José María Morelos and ...
( Category:
Americas
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Anna-Lisa Cox
8 “For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments” Gibson County, Indiana, March 1851 The women of the house would ...
( Category:
Americas
September 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]
VIII. The Crown Revenue The financial history of Edward I’s reign has been described as ‘a highly complicated and rather repellent subject’.[625] But complex subjects have their fascination, and it ...
( Category:
Europe
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Stephen P. Halbrook [Halbrook, Stephen P.]
Elsewhere in this harangue, Hitler made an obscure reference apparently expressing resentment against the Swiss for their victory against the Germans in the Swabian War of 1499. He saw Switzerland ...
( Category:
Europe
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-21 | Author:Fred Bridgland
★ ★ ★ It looked to Deon Ferreira as though everything would evolve according to his plan after the G-5s’ opening early morning barrage. Koos Breytenbach watched in amazement as ...
( Category:
Africa
September 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Curt Brown
IX “I did this on my own resolution. I received no orders from the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, or any of its employees, of any nature regarding my departure. I used ...
( Category:
Earth Sciences
September 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lucy Inglis
Welcome to Dai Fou The word coolie comes from the Chinese word k ’u-li, translated as ‘hard strength’, from their traditional work as physical labourers. These workers who came aboard ...
( Category:
Historical Study & Educational Resources
September 22,2018 )
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