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The Kingdom in the Sun by John Julius Norwich
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-15 | Author:John Julius Norwich

The bagarre at Besancon, as anyone could have seen, was merely a symptom of a far deeper rift between Pope and Emperor—one which no amount of diplomatic drafting could ever ...
( Category: Europe April 7,2018 )
Origen: Contra Celsum by Origen
azw3 |eng | 1980-02-28 | Author:Origen

1 Jer. i. 9–10. 2 Read τς with Bo., K. tr. 3 Gen. xi. 4. 4 II Cor. x. 5. 5 I Cor. iii. 9. 6 Cf. I, 49. For ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership April 7,2018 )
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jennifer Fleischner [Fleischner, Jennifer]

CHAPTER NINE On the morning after the inauguration, a dispatch from Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter, informing President Lincoln that the garrison’s supplies were nearly depleted, lay on the ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Forged Through Fire by John Ferejohn
epub |eng | | Author:John Ferejohn

1918 New York Times front page reporting Germany's surrender and the end of the Great War. The New York Times’s 42-point headlines on November 11, 1918, conveyed the chaos of ...
( Category: Military April 7,2018 )
The Unreliable Nation by Jones-Imhotep Edward;
epub |eng | | Author:Jones-Imhotep, Edward;

Figure 4.3 The organizational chart for the Electronics Laboratory. The chart shows DRTE’s organization at the start of construction on S-27 (January 1, 1960). Note the presence of both the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 7,2018 )
Pre-Industrial Societies by Crone Patricia
epub |eng | | Author:Crone, Patricia

7 Religion I should like to round off this part of the book with some general comments on religion. Religion is a distinctive part of culture which generates more bewilderment ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 13 by Choying Tobden Dorje
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Choying Tobden Dorje

SYNONYMS [13.6.1.2.1.1.1.1.2] The second part [of the defining characteristics of conditioned phenomena] concerns synonyms (13.6.1.2.1.1.1.1.2). This includes (i) synonyms of conditioned phenomena in general (13.6.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1) and (ii) synonyms of contaminated ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
The Mediterranean World by Monique O'Connell & Eric R Dursteler
epub |eng | 2016-05-14 | Author:Monique O'Connell & Eric R Dursteler [O'Connell, Monique]

Giuliano Sangallo’s drawing of Cyriac of Ancona’s now-lost sketch of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople. Vatican Apostolic Library The Aragonese and the Angevins both had ambitions for a pan-Mediterranean empire, and the ...
( Category: Middle East April 7,2018 )
Women in the Mosque by Katz Marion;
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Katz, Marion;

The inquiry that elicited al-Haytamī’s fatwa is very different in emphasis. It reads: In these times, it has become a frequent occurrence that women go out to the markets and ...
( Category: Islam April 7,2018 )
Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia by Howard Macdonald Stewart
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Howard Macdonald Stewart

Other challenges: forestry, dams, ports, anglers Many industries had a variety of destructive effects on the Strait’s salmon. It had become recognised globally, for example, that logging damage to streams ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Excavating Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
epub |eng | 2001-04-07 | Author:John Dominic Crossan

Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
The Holy Place by Henry Lincoln
epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Henry Lincoln [Lincoln, Henry]

The ‘fixing of a lawful rood’ from a woodcut in Jakob Kobel’s Géométrie (1531). In 1791, the French National Assembly decided to adopt the metric system in an attempt to ...
( Category: Europe April 7,2018 )
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain by Matthew Carr
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Matthew Carr [Carr, Matthew]

These periodic disarmaments were among various attempts by Spain’s rulers to neutralize the perceived Morisco security threat. In October 1575, a royal decree prohibited Valencian Moriscos from approaching the coastline ...
( Category: History April 7,2018 )
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Updated and Expanded) by Avi Shlaim
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Avi Shlaim [Shlaim, Avi]

Covert Dealings with Iran Israel was distracted from the single-minded pursuit of the Jordanian option both by the change at the top and by the Irangate scandal. In November 1986, ...
( Category: Middle East April 7,2018 )
Twelve Who Ruled by Palmer R. R. Woloch Isser
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Palmer, R. R., Woloch, Isser

CHAPTER X Dictated Economy TWO ideas gave purpose to the struggles in France during the Revolution, the rights of the individual and the sovereignty of the nation. Revolutionary philosophers saw ...
( Category: Europe April 6,2018 )

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