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Abraham Lincoln's Daily Treasure by Thomas Freiling
epub |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Thomas Freiling [Freiling, Thomas, ed.]

Week 26 Day 1 * * * Praying for Others My beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion April 23,2018 )
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Lopez Donald S. Jr
epub |eng | 2011-04-23 | Author:Lopez, Donald S., Jr.

The importance of Tibetan tradition for our time and for the spiritual development of humanity lies in the fact that Tibet is the last living link that connects us with ...
( Category: Buddhism April 23,2018 )
Miles Franklin by Jill Roe
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Jill Roe

12 MAINTAINING OUR BEST TRADITIONS: 1939‒1945 Culture will survive war.1 On the evening of Sunday 3 September 1939, walking along Pitt Street with Louis Esson after a reading of Leslie ...
( Category: World April 23,2018 )
The Chinese in Toronto from 1878 by Arlene Chan
epub |eng | | Author:Arlene Chan

Volunteers, including Valerie Mah, set up the Dragon Mall on Elizabeth Street in Old Chinatown in 1970 as a fundraising event for the Mon Sheong Foundation. Generally, the Chinese could ...
( Category: Asia April 23,2018 )
The Interloper by Peter Savodnik
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-04 | Author:Peter Savodnik

9 “HER NAME IS MARINA” THE WINTER CHANGED EVERYTHING. HE HAD CLOSED OUT 1960 holding onto some of his early affection for Russia, and, in fact, New Year’s Eve at ...
( Category: World April 23,2018 )
Way Out There In the Blue by Frances FitzGerald
epub |eng | | Author:Frances FitzGerald

AT GENEVA, Reagan and Gorbachev had agreed that there would be a summit in the United States in 1986, and one in the Soviet Union the following year. After his ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 23,2018 )
War and Genocide by Bergen Doris L. & Bergen Doris L
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Bergen, Doris L. & Bergen, Doris L.

Prisoners gather outside their barracks in the Gurs concentration camp in southwestern France, in 1939 or 1940. French authorities, not Germans, were in charge of Gurs. Originally set up for ...
( Category: World April 23,2018 )
The Bomb: A Life by Gerard DeGroot
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Gerard DeGroot [DeGroot, Gerard]

* * * While the Americans were poisoning the Marshall Islanders, the Soviets were busy poisoning their own people. Russia’s weapons development complex eventually dwarfed its American counterpart. The main ...
( Category: Military April 23,2018 )
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan by Jonathan Kirsch
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Kirsch

* * * * Arendt later came to the defense of her former lover in a broadcast on West German radio on the occasion of Heidegger’s eightieth birthday in 1969. ...
( Category: World April 23,2018 )
The Way of Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Marozzi

Apart from the Oracle of Ammon, Herodotus refers specifically to one other landmark in Siwa. As so often in the Histories, it is a crowd-pleasing marvel. They have another spring ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 22,2018 )
Act of Creation by Stephen C. Schlesinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Stephen C. Schlesinger

CHAPTER 12 THE TWENTY-THREE QUESTIONS The operative principle among the Big Three in San Francisco was that the Great Power veto had to be preserved at all costs (China and ...
( Category: World April 22,2018 )
Seven Women by Eric Metaxas
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Eric Metaxas

Two triangles, King David’s star. No insult, this ancestral blazon. It indicates a noble way. It marks a chosen nation. May you, stamped by this seal, this star of David, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 22,2018 )
Comrade J by Pete Earley
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-07 | Author:Pete Earley

TWENTY-TWO SERGEI AND HELEN DEPOSITED $25,000 in a Moscow bank that was paying 200 percent interest—a rate that didn’t seem out of line given that inflation was unchecked. They were ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 22,2018 )
What Is the Sangha?: The Nature of Spiritual Community by Sangharakshita
mobi |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Sangharakshita

PART 3 The Network of Personal Relationships INTRODUCTION SOME VERSES I once composed for the dedication of a Buddhist shrine-room include the aspiration: ‘May our communication with one another be ...
( Category: World April 22,2018 )
What Is the Dharma? by Sangharakshita
mobi |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Sangharakshita

Dispassion In dependence upon withdrawal arises vairagya, which can be translated, approximately at least, as ‘dispassion’. This stage differs from the previous one in that while withdrawal is the movement ...
( Category: World April 22,2018 )

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