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epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]
When the suppliant kneels and holds up his hands with the palms joined, he represents a captive who proves the completeness of his submission by offering up his hands to ...
( Category:
Developmental Biology
November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Nicolas Pelham
Counter-strike With scant means to unseat IS themselves, some Sunni tribal elders responded to al-Abadi’s efforts to revive the Sahwa force of Sunni tribesmen his predecessor dissolved. Concerned for the ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Hall
Back in the United States, President Eisenhower – who was in the midst of a gruelling re-election campaign against Adlai Stevenson, the former governor of Illinois – struggled to formulate ...
( Category:
Historical
November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Nadler
9 “The Jew of Voorburg” IN 1665, the village of Voorburg, just outside The Hague, was in the grip of a rancorous civil dispute over who would be the next ...
( Category:
General
November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Madden, Thomas F. [Madden, Thomas F.]
Chapter 14 Latin Occupation U nthinkable is precisely the word to describe the fall of Constantinople. Armed rebellions, palace coups, bloody riots—these were regular, even expected events in the lives ...
( Category:
General
November 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-06 | Author:Ulrich L. Lehner [Lehner, Ulrich L.]
Muratori and the Spirit of Liturgical Renewal Nobody exemplifies the spirit of Catholic Enlightenment better than Ludovico Muratori, a librarian and priest in Modena who regularly engaged in literary disputes. ...
( Category:
General
November 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Graydon Carter
WHAT, EXACTLY, IS MODERN? ALDOUS HUXLEY FROM MAY 1925 At a café in Siena I once got into conversation with an Italian medical student. Like most of his compatriots, he ...
( Category:
World
November 24,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Jason Porath [Porath, Jason]
• ART NOTES • Dhat al-Himma is here pictured swinging into battle. This was one of her trademarks—unlike her straightforward son, Abd al-Wahhab, she would sneak up on her enemies. ...
( Category:
Women in History
November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:M. Testa
1966 When fascist organizations regroup and begin to make their presence felt on the streets, anti-fascists organize in response. When the NF held its first meeting in Westminster in December ...
( Category:
Fascism
November 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Suleiman Mourad
Glossary Abbasids: a dynasty of caliphs who ruled the Muslim world starting in 750. They traced their genealogy to ʿAbbas, the uncle of Prophet Muhammad. They championed Sunnism, and their ...
( Category:
World
November 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Shryock, Andrew & Daniel Lord Smail
KIN RECOGNITION Humans do not find it particularly difficult to distinguish kin from nonkin. Family ties validated and reinforced through language usually make clear who is related to whom. But ...
( Category:
General
November 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Eileen Markey
CHAPTER 8 Mission to the United States Maura woke in her dusty room on October 22, 1976, the cries of the neighborhood roosters and the rattletrap buses already noisy on ...
( Category:
Nicaragua
November 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Benson Bobrick [Bobrick, Benson]
The mark left by the Russians on frontier America was by no means slight. Their promyshlennik vanguard had gained a foothold on Alaska’s coastal islands by the time of the ...
( Category:
Russia
November 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
Chapter Sixteen “Isolationism Is Impossible”: The Politics of Rescue Varian Fry arrived in Marseilles on 15 August 1940, carrying a short list of two hundred notable artists, writers, musicians, “immediately ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
November 11,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Nicholas Ostler [Ostler, Nicholas]
to kto mojetĭ na vodou besědou pisati ili Eretičĭsko imă sebě obrěsti So who can write speech upon water, or find for himself the name of a heretic?6 Nonetheless, he ...
( Category:
General
November 9,2016 )
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