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Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic & John Bedford Lloyd
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic & John Bedford Lloyd

4 * * * AUGUST 15, 1945 ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, headlines—bold, all caps, and glorious—unfurled in newspapers across the nation: New York Times: JAPAN SURRENDERS, END OF WAR! Orlando ...
( Category: Military July 17,2018 )
Japan by Milton W. Meyer
epub |eng | | Author:Milton W. Meyer [Meyer, Milton W.]

JAPAN, KOREA, AND WORLD POWERS The Treaty of Portsmouth recognized Japan’s paramount interests in Korea as well. In late 1905, Ito went to Seoul to negotiate a treaty that transformed ...
( Category: Asia July 17,2018 )
Terra firma : the earth not a planet, proved from scripture, reason and fact by Scott David Wardlaw
epub, pdf |eng | 1901-07-16 | Author:Scott, David Wardlaw

distance on the surface of the Earth to the Equator—^from Oto E, is the same as from the Equator to the Sun in the heavens—E to S. Multiplying 45 by ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal July 17,2018 )
Severed by Frances Larson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frances Larson [Larson, Frances]

Staff at the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, photographed for the Ipswich Star newspaper, positioning Simon of Sudbury’s head in the CT scanner, March 2011. So Sudbury’s head is ...
( Category: Sociology July 17,2018 )
Tasting the Past by Kevin Begos
epub |eng | 2018-05-25 | Author:Kevin Begos

11 Italy, Leonardo, and Natural Wine I’ve drunk Sicilia’s crimson wine! The blazing vintage pressed From grapes on Etna’s breast, What time the mellowing autumn sun did shine: I‘ve drunk ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference July 17,2018 )
Forgotten Wars by Tim Harper
mobi |eng | 2007-07-03 | Author:Tim Harper

MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category: Asia July 16,2018 )
Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East by Joseph Poprzeczny
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-18 | Author:Joseph Poprzeczny [Poprzeczny, Joseph]

No mention was made of Globocnik’s Treblinka, Sobibor, or Belzec, because all had been dismantled and all the permanent structures, including the gassing facilities, demolished. Majdanek Majdanek, or more properly, ...
( Category: World July 15,2018 )
The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice by Bonnie G. Smith
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Bonnie G. Smith

We have always known that political history was laced with values, and never more so in the modern period, as scientific historians in the West acted zealously and in countless ...
( Category: World July 14,2018 )
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by Silbey David J
epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Silbey, David J. [Silbey, David J.]

The memory of the Battle of Tianjin has largely been lost. Even within the Boxer War itself, Tianjin has taken something of a lesser place to the siege of the ...
( Category: Asia July 14,2018 )
The Ideal Man by Joshua Kurlantzick
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Joshua Kurlantzick

11 Perched at the top of the stairs to his house, smoking a long cigarette, Jim Thompson waved down to the crowd of guests who’d arrived at his home on ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 14,2018 )
The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity by Rebillard Éric Rawlings Elizabeth Trapnell Routier-Pucci Jeanine
epub |eng | | Author:Rebillard, Éric,Rawlings, Elizabeth Trapnell,Routier-Pucci, Jeanine

Gregory contrasts sacrifice and pity, and puts the care of Joseph and Nicodemus to bury Jesus in the category of sacrifice. Therefore, for him they are not at all models ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 13,2018 )
Jeremy Paxman by On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families

I have gradually come to realize that my entire life so far has been motivated by a desire to heal - to heal the dismembered landscape and the poisoned soil; ...
( Category: Europe July 12,2018 )
Veni, Vidi, Vici by Peter Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jones

IX AD 14 – 96 TIMELINE AD 14–37 Tiberius emperor AD 26 Tiberius retires to Capri AD 31 Sejanus’ conspiracy uncovered AD 37 Pontius Pilate relieved of control of Judaea ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 12,2018 )
Caligula: Divine Carnage by Stephen Barber Jeremy Reed
epub |eng | 2016-01-23 | Author:Stephen Barber, Jeremy Reed [Barber, Stephen & Reed, Jeremy]

4. HELIOGABALUS: BLACK SUN RISING “Myth and utopia: the origins have belonged, the future will belong to the subjects in whom there is something feminine” —Roland Barthes “We are all ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 12,2018 )
Naval Warfare by Jeremy Black
epub |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Jeremy Black

The Japanese Advance, 1941–42 Naval strength was crucial to the Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia, although it was the army which had the key experience, equipment, doctrine, and responsibility for ...
( Category: Military July 12,2018 )

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