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Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch [MacCulloch, Diarmaid]

ENGLAND: A VARIETY OF NICODEMITES Bucer’s opinions were not altered by the failure of the Church reunion negotiations in which he enthusiastically participated at Regensburg that same year, for there ...
( Category: World April 1,2018 )
Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult (Traditions) by Roger D. Woodard
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Roger D. Woodard [Woodard, Roger D.]

4.3 THE MAHVEDI To say that the fire which now lies at the eastern terminus of the axis formed by the Grhapatya and havanya is a “fourth flame” is only ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 1,2018 )
Walkers Between the Worlds by Caitlín Matthews
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Caitlín Matthews

PRACTICES 11. The Labyrinth of the Gods In his discussion of the Mysteries, the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus gives an interesting account of “certain underground galleries and passages full of ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality April 1,2018 )
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus by Alison Bashford
epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Alison Bashford

Chapter 7 Colonization and Emigration AS A MORAL PHILOSOPHER, MALTHUS OFTEN relied on hypothetical scenarios. What if the island of Great Britain doubled on itself, he asked in a new ...
( Category: World April 1,2018 )
Encyclopedia of Assassinations by Carl Sifakis
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Carl Sifakis

Letelier, Orlando (1932–1976) In an event that shocked the Washington diplomatic corps, Orlando Letelier, the foreign minister of Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende, was killed on Embassy Row ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides March 31,2018 )
Encyclopedia of the Incas by Gary Urton & Adriana von Hagen
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Gary Urton & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]

HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...
( Category: Americas March 31,2018 )
Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History) by Peter B. Golden
azw3 |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 March 31,2018 )
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
epub |eng | 2007-05-19 | Author:William Fairham [Fairham, William]

With compass point on 3 and radius 3 to 4, describe an arc 4 to 5. This gives us the true joint line (1, 4, 5). The distance 0 to ...
( Category: Home Improvement & Design March 31,2018 )
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
epub |eng | 2001-03-31 | Author:William Cobbett

We got to THURSLEY after our beautiful ride through Mr LEECH’s coppices, and the weather being pretty cold, we found ourselves most happily situated here by the side of an ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 31,2018 )
Second World War by Bamber Gascoigne
epub |zho | 2010-12-01 | Author:Bamber Gascoigne [Gascoigne, Bamber]

Second Fronts: 1941-1943 From the time of the first German onslaught against Russia, in 1941, Stalin has been demanding that Churchill launch a second front across the Channel to divert ...
( Category: Military March 31,2018 )
Stealing Sisi's Star by Jennifer Bowers Bahney
epub |eng | 2015-07-02 | Author:Jennifer Bowers Bahney

The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873 featured Emperor Franz Joseph promoting the arts, technology, and industry. The emperor was a stickler for military discipline and duty, and never could relate ...
( Category: World March 31,2018 )
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition by Michael White
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Michael White

And as Bruno concluded the recounting of this part of his story, his words trailed off into a heavy silence. The room had grown dark around him as his tale ...
( Category: Catholicism March 31,2018 )
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

43 THE OUD- PLAYER OF JERUSALEM 1905–1914 DAVID GRÜN BECOMES DAVID BEN-GURION David Grün’s father was already a local leader of the Lovers of Zion, forerunner of the Zionist movement, ...
( Category: Middle East March 31,2018 )
A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal & Elie Wiesel
epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Thomas Buergenthal & Elie Wiesel [Buergenthal, Thomas & Wiesel, Elie]

CHAPTER 7 Into the Polish Army THE BIG SACHSENHAUSEN GATE WAS OPEN. Marek and I walked through it, under the administration building with its tower and the now-empty machine-gun nest ...
( Category: World March 31,2018 )
The GULAG Archipelago, Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

NOTES 1. This fledgling whose beak had not yet hardened was warmed and encouraged by Trotsky: "Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 31,2018 )

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