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mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Bruce Bawer
THE HUGE WOODEN DOOR of the pension opened, and a young man with a Mediterranean appearance—Turkish, I guessed—eyed us steadily. “Deutsch? English?” he asked. “English,” I replied, and after introducing ...
( Category:
European
April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Paul Johnson [Johnson, Paul]
Adenauer, Adenauer, show us your hand For thirty pieces of silver you sell our land, etc. This won him the GDR’s National Prize for Literature (First Class). He made himself ...
( Category:
History & Surveys
April 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Vishal Mangalwadi [Mangalwadi, Vishal]
When we compare this tone of thought in Europe with the attitude of other civilizations when left to themselves, there seems but one source of its origin. It must come ...
( Category:
Christianity
April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Overy
1648 TO 1795 THE AGE OF PARTITION: EASTERN EUROPE After 1648, a new balance of power in eastern Europe was brought about by the decline of both Poland-Lithuania and the ...
( Category:
World
April 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Simon Cottee [Cottee, Simon]
The Great Mistake In his memoir Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie recalls that one of the lowest moments during ‘the fatwa years’—on 14 February 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-13 | Author:Ryan Hackney & Amy Hackney Blackwell [Hackney, Ryan]
63 Irish Language The Gaelic language of Ireland is one of the most distinctive in Europe. It’s one of the few Celtic languages that survived the onslaught of Germanic and ...
( Category:
Trivia
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Aikman
During the first two millennia of global Christendom, the watershed event was not the official adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire under the emperor Constantine but the Protestant Reformation ...
( Category:
Christianity
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Jacobs
Noor Inayat Khan’s report from SOE’s Finishing School at Beaulieu dated 21 May 1943. The report has been underlined and scrawled over with comments such as ‘Nonsense’ and ‘We don’t ...
( Category:
Intelligence & Espionage
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Otto Dov Kulka [Dov Kulka, Otto]
22. 23. 24. The immutable law of the Great Death, the immutable law which recurs in that dream in infinite permutations, which in one place I called ‘the eternal death ...
( Category:
Holocaust
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Daniel J. Boorstin [Boorstin, Daniel J.]
Leonardo could not have painted the work so sporadically if it had been fresco, which would have incorporated his labors into the body of the wall. Fresco had to be ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Miroslav Volf
The Christian Right and Political Pluralism Williams’s religious struggle for political pluralism took place in the seventeenth century. But where are the religious exclusivists who embrace pluralism as a political ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Lyn Smith [LYN SMITH]
Edith Baneth Young Czech woman, Auschwitz-Birkenau We were put in front of the main gate of Auschwitz with the famous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (work brings freedom) and in front of ...
( Category:
Holocaust
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer
In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category:
Revolution & Founding
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Jeffreys, Diarmuid [Jeffreys, Diarmuid]
Although overdoses were rare, the article continued, they did occur and doctors should be aware of the possibility. However, it concluded: 'aspirin in ordinary doses appears to be singularly safe'. ...
( Category:
History
April 8,2016 )
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