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epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Gary J. Bass
Perhaps most important, Gladstone had a history of activism against foreign oppression. Even as a Tory, he could be roused to fury by suffering overseas. Back in 1851, while Gladstone ...
( Category:
Military
September 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:John Pilger [Pilger, John]
5 Liberating Afghanistan The people there are dead because we wanted them dead. Pentagon spokesman on the bombing of a village that killed 93 civilians Traffic jams are a sign ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
September 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:David L. Brainard
December 5th. A gale broke suddenly on us at 3 a.m. It subsided at noon and the sky cleared beautifully, but in the evening the wind rose again with greater ...
( Category:
Winter Sports
September 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:James Cook
This war club, now at Cambridge, was among the objects received by Cook and his companions in barter at Malakula. About nine o’clock, we put off in two boats, and ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
September 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Eric Zuesse [Zuesse, Eric]
Maybe? No – Is! Christianity’s being a hoax isn’t just maybe so; it is definitely so – proven far beyond any reasonable doubt. For example, the documents which aver that ...
( Category:
History
September 7,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Tim Benson [Benson, Tim]
23 January 1938 — Reynold’s News Young Ernie In 1938, as war with Germany began to seem ever more likely, the British government created giant, hydrogen-filled ‘barrage balloons’, designed to ...
( Category:
World
September 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-10 | Author:Stuart Carroll [Carroll, Stuart]
7: BLOODFEUD Shortly after daybreak on the 19 December 1562, scouts in the royalist army, which was drawn up in line of battle just south of the town of Dreux, ...
( Category:
History
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Mario Escobar
Dear Johann: I know that it’s ridiculous for me to tell you about my life here at the camp. Surely you’re somewhere just as bad or worse than here, but ...
( Category:
World War II
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Phil Mason [Mason, Phil]
Walter Hunt, a New York mechanic, invented the safety pin in 1849 in just three hours, to pay off a $15 debt. He saw no commercial value in the idea, ...
( Category:
Trivia & Fun Facts
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Conn Iggulden & David Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn & Iggulden, David]
Copyright © 2009 by Graeme Neil Reid In October 1854 the nurses left England for Paris to buy medical supplies. News had spread of their mission, and they were welcomed ...
( Category:
World
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-07 | Author:Kenneth Steven [Steven, Kenneth]
* OH, I DON’T think anybody in the country realised just how serious things were in Whitehall. I’m not even sure I realised! Perhaps you don’t feel the true force ...
( Category:
World
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Hubert Wolf [Wolf, Hubert]
THE APOSTLE OF SAINT AGNESE FIRRAO Now the interrogation turned to the most important charge against Leziroli: the promotion of the cult of Agnese Firrao, who had been convicted of ...
( Category:
World
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:John Guy [Guy, John]
19 Assassination Two THE DAY BEFORE Darnley’s assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember. It was the feast of Quinquagesima: the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning ...
( Category:
Historical
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Julian Bell [Bell, Julian]
Towards the end of his busy summer tangling with pointillism in Asnières, Vincent had met up again with Émile Bernard, whose parents had a house there.36 The brainy ex-Cormon student ...
( Category:
Arts & Literature
September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Simon Winchester
The tube and the assembly around it had been manufactured in a Rolls-Royce plant, Hucknall Casings and Structures, sometime in the spring of 2009. In normal circumstances, it would have ...
( Category:
Experiments, Instruments & Measurement
September 6,2018 )
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