World
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Leslie Gold

DARLING TINNEKA, At eight I went down for a breakfast of bread, butter, cheese, salami, a boiled egg. I drank tea and cold milk: the usual. Around the large rectangular ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Will Podmore [Podmore, Will]

Vietnam’s victory Vietnam, like Korea, was until 1945 a single united country. In 1945, the people of Vietnam made their revolution and evicted the French, in the first overthrow of ...
( Category: Military March 12,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Norman Russell [Russell, Norman]

The Alexandrian Tradition II 201 preferred means of expressing how human beings appropriate the divine life.34 The frequency of his citation of the text is quite remarkable. He uses it ...
( Category: History March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-05 | Author:Hilaire Belloc [Belloc, Hilaire]

VI. THE DARK AGES So far we have traced the fortunes of the Roman Empire (that is of European civilization and of the Catholic Church with which that civilization was ...
( Category: Theology March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-03 | Author:Eva Hoffman [Eva Hoffman]

V FROM MORALITY TO MEMORY During a recent trip to Poland, I had occasion to visit the concentration camp of Majdanek, near the city of Lublin—one of the well-marked sites ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rüpke, Jörg; Richardson, David M. B.;

59. Gilded silver patera from Parabiago, showing the triumph of Mater Magna/Cybele and Attis, fourth century AD. Milan, Castello Sforzesco, Civiche Raccolte d’Arte Applicata ed Incisioni. Photo Giovanni Dall’Orto, used ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Mitchell Abidor [Abidor, Mitchell]

JOSEPH POTIRON Joseph Potiron, born in 1932, is a legendary figure on the left in Brittany. Living on the same tenant farm he grew up on in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, outside ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Walker

‘Hearts and minds’ was only part of a possible solution. Major-General John (later Sir John) Willoughby, who had taken over as GOC, MELF, from Major-General John Cubbon, commented on the ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Davies, Norman [Davies, Norman]

Once they were caught up in the penal system, it was no easy matter for convicts to evade it. Since average life expectancy did not exceed forty years, many died ...
( Category: Americas March 12,2018 )
epub, azw3 |spa | 1932-01-01 | Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]

Newsreel XXIX the arrival of the news caused the swamping of the city’s telephone lines Y fallait pas Y fallait pas Y fallait pas-a-a-a-a-yallez BIG GUNS USED IN HAMBURG at ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks [Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.]

Shifting and lengthening trade routes For Italian merchants the Crusades were a boon. Venetians and Genoese in particular profited from outfitting military expeditions as well as from the opening of ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2017-07-13 | Author:Ramachandra Guha [Guha, Ramachandra]

VI In September 1974 the Republic of India acquired a chunk of territory that previously constituted the quasi-independent state of Sikkim. While Sikkim had its own flag and currency, and ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Thurston Clarke [Clarke, Thurston]

19 12:10–12:15 P.M. In the King David’s military and government offices, Monday was the busiest day of the week. Jerusalem enjoyed a three-day weekend. Moslems took off Friday afternoons, Jews ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-07 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 12,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-03 | Author:Patrick Kinross [Kinross, Patrick]

As Churchill summed up the position: ‘The Greeks had gained a strategic and tactical success; they had gained possession of the railway for the further advance; but they had not ...
( Category: Middle East March 12,2018 )