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Book of Fire by Brian Moynahan
epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Brian Moynahan [Moynahan, Brian]

Evangelicals’ fury matched that of the Catholics. In Zwinglian Zurich, heretics were being drowned. The great evangelical Theodore Beza was to argue in Calvinist Geneva that it was wrong to ...
( Category: Europe December 4,2017 )
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jacob Burckhardt [Burckhardt, Jacob]

PART FOUR. THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN Journeys of the Italians Freed from the countless bonds which elsewhere in Europe checked progress, having reached a high degree ...
( Category: Europe December 4,2017 )
1215 and All That by Ed West
epub |eng | 2017-12-03 | Author:Ed West

CHAPTER NINE Not as Bad as Hitler or Stalin John has gone down in history as a ‘bad king,’ but unlike his showy brother, at least he bothered to visit ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
Egypt by Christina Riggs
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Christina Riggs

The beautiful and the dead The vogue for paintings inspired by ancient Egypt, like those of Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Long, was not limited to Britain by any means. It was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
Among the Dead Cities by A. C. Grayling
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:A. C. Grayling

Next to this passage must be placed one from a speech broadcast by Truman on the radio that same day: The world will note that the first atomic bomb was ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
Cults by Lewis James R
epub |eng | 2014-09-11 | Author:Lewis, James R.

CHAPTER 4 DOCUMENTS AND DATA STATISTICS General estimates of the extent of the New Religions phenomenon vary considerably. The two basic quantitative questions in this area are: How many groups? ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts December 4,2017 )
Hillel by Joseph Telushkin
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Joseph Telushkin [Telushkin, Rabbi Joseph]

Several important, infrequently commented upon, and still applicable lessons emerge from this passage: There isn’t necessarily only one way to perform a ritual act that’s acceptable to God. The disputes ...
( Category: World December 4,2017 )
Alison Weir by Katherine Swynford
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Katherine Swynford [Swynford, Katherine]

Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...
( Category: Europe December 3,2017 )
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Evans Richard J
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

MASTERING THE ELEMENTS Nature in nineteenth-century Europe posed major challenges in other ways too. Great mountain ranges cut one part of Europe off from another: the Pyrenees, separating France from ...
( Category: Europe December 3,2017 )
America's queen : the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Bradford Sarah 1938-
epub |eng | 2000-12-03 | Author:Bradford, Sarah, 1938-

Jackie spent her days reading, painting, resting for the birth of her baby and planning, just as she had in 1960, in the weeks before the birth of John Jr., ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 3,2017 )
Greater Britain / A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Charles Wentworth Dilke
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Charles Wentworth Dilke [Dilke, Charles Wentworth]

CHAPTER III. VICTORIA. THE smallest of our southern colonies except Tasmania,—one-fourth the size of New South Wales, one-eighth of Queensland, one-twelfth of West Australia, one-fifteenth of South Australia,—Victoria is the ...
( Category: World December 3,2017 )
The Ottoman Empire: a Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes] by Kia Mehrdad;
epub |eng | | Author:Kia, Mehrdad;

DINING AT THE OTTOMAN COURT In the following excerpt from one of her letters, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), the wife of England’s ambassador to the Ottoman court, describes a ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides December 3,2017 )
Lost World by Tom Koppel
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Koppel

As with genetics, some linguists have tried to use language evolution as a ticking clock to estimate how long people have been in the New World. Languages evolve over time ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )
The Great Shift by James L. Kugel
epub |eng | | Author:James L. Kugel

Is there anyone whom I can talk to—to warn them, so that they’ll heed? But everyone’s ears are stopped up, they’re unable to take in my words. The word of ...
( Category: World December 3,2017 )
Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum by Kenneth L. Feder
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Kenneth L. Feder

The totality of the interaction between the Earth's larger life and the individual and group responses to this greater life define "planet art." In this large process, I dimly perceive ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides December 3,2017 )

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