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Living Silence in Burma by Christina Fink
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Christina Fink [Fink, Christina]

Military commanders and other state authorities have implemented additional policies which have created a legacy of increased racial hatred in some areas. Policies include confiscating land which is then either ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 17,2017 )
The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-11-14 | Author:Norman Finkelstein [Finkelstein, Norman]

"Holocaust Insurance Team Racking Up Millions in Expenses as Survivors Wait," in Forward (30 July 1999), and Verena Dobnik, "Oscar Hammerstein's Cousin Sues German Bank Over Holocaust Assets," in AP ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
Soldier Stories by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2009-04-08 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

With forty-five O's in the last word: even at that distance you might have cut the soft South Irish accent with a shovel. 'For all we take we must pay, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James
epub |eng | 2006-11-05 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * BOOK THIRD * * * XXXV The August night had gathered by the time Basil Ransom, having finished his supper, stepped out upon the piazza of the ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
epub |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

‘Need I wait, sir?’ said the servant after a dead silence. ‘That will do, William. No answer,’ said Barnet calmly. When the man had gone Barnet re-read the letter. Turning ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
Marmion by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CANTO FOURTH.—THE CAMP. I. Eustace, I said, did blithely mark The first notes of the merry lark. The lark sang shrill, the cock he crew, And loudly Marmion's bugles blew, ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

And, at the same time, to countenance the belief that he had been disappointed, he would affect to sigh, exclaiming—"Ah! that I should thus fruitlessly have squandered a sum of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 17,2017 )
The Nativity by Geza Vermes
epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Geza Vermes [Vermes, Geza]

LUKE’S ACCOUNT LK 2:1–7 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor ...
( Category: Theology December 17,2017 )
Egypt and Judaea by Grainger John D
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Grainger, John D.

Chapter 9 The Arabian Expedition Aelius Gallus was appointed prefect of Egypt in the wake of the recall of C. Cornelius Gallus, and arrived in his province in 27. Cornelius’ ...
( Category: Military December 17,2017 )
In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-12-17 | Author:Norman F. Cantor

The case of the le Strange family demonstrates well what the Black Death and the courts could do to an unlucky upper-class family. The le Stranges lived in Whitchurch in ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Boyle

* * * Andres was abandoned by his mother when he was nine years old and left homeless for a couple of years. He has always been a clear example ...
( Category: Motivational December 17,2017 )
Behind the Fireplace: Memoirs of a girl working in the Dutch Resistance by Andrew Scott
epub |eng | 2016-01-24 | Author:Andrew Scott [Scott, Andrew]

Fears that the Germans might have infiltrated the Resistance continued to grow, so operations were regularly abandoned and code names continually changed as the effect of betrayals became evident and ...
( Category: World December 16,2017 )
The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

THE FORTIFIED EASTERN Libyan harbor of Tobruk changed hands four times during the war. Before 1940 and after 1943 the port was little known and of no real strategic importance, ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2017 )
The Knights Templar by Sean Martin
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-12-16 | Author:Sean Martin

The Other Military Orders One unexpected development in the Latin East after the end of the Third Crusade was the establishment of a new military order. In 1197, German crusaders ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2017 )
The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity by Jerry B. Brown
mobi |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Jerry B. Brown

Fig. 9.2. Nicolas Poussin, L’Automne, 1664, Louvre Museum, Paris (Photo by Julie M. Brown) “As a student of art history,” Simone answered, “I became very intrigued by their reference to ...
( Category: History December 16,2017 )

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