World
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-07 | Author:Michael Hirsh [Hirsh, Michael]
Radio operator Rodney Young’s slit-open flight suit has been replaced with a hospital gown so small he risks arrest for indecent exposure when he steps outside the FST unit. Neither ...
( Category:
Specific Topics
November 17,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Lichtblau
Nazi general Karl Wolff (left) with his boss, SS chief Heinrich Himmler, outside a Nazi train in 1942. Prosecutors at Nuremberg regarded General Wolff as Himmler’s “bureaucrat of death,” but ...
( Category:
Holocaust
November 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]
AS WELL AS bringing in civil reform and reminding everyone of his great military victories, Napoleon announced the return of the Catholic Church, abolished in the Revolution, but this time ...
( Category:
France
November 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Summers, Anthony [Summers, Anthony]
CHAPTER 20 Facts and Appearances “Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability of appearance.” —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary The real Lee Harvey Oswald made a mundane return to the United ...
( Category:
United States
November 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Mindy Weisel
November 1990 I began work on a show. At first, performing embarrassingly bad Polish jokes in a Lower East Side shopfront/theatre, friends advised me to dig more deeply, to find ...
( Category:
Holocaust
November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]
Epilogue The sociologist Charles B. Perrow began his research on dangerous technologies in August 1979, after the partial meltdown of the core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. ...
( Category:
Nuclear
November 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Brad Meltzer
Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS, Hitler’s most elite military group. He was also the man behind the horrors of the extermination camps, where more than six million ...
( Category:
Trivia
November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]
*** Yabu se întoarse târziu acasă în acea zi. Servitorii îi luară îmbrăcămintea leoarcă de sudoare şi-i dădură un chimonou proaspăt şi îi puseră în picioare tabi curate. Yuriko, soţia ...
( Category:
Historical
November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]
CAPITOLUL 20 — Fir-aş eu afurisit, dacă asta nu e viaţă! Blackthorne zăcea încântat pe burtă pe salteaua groasă, pe jumătate înfăşurat într-un chimonou de bumbac, cu capul sprijinit pe ...
( Category:
Historical
November 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
XII. WORDSWORTH: CLIMAX, 1804–14 After some minor wanderings, the Wordsworth ménage moved (1808) from Dove Cottage to a larger house at nearby Allan Bank. There the poet blossomed out as ...
( Category:
France
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...
( Category:
Holocaust
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
CHAPTER XX The Literature of India I. THE LANGUAGES OF INDIA Sanskrit—The vernaculars—Grammar JUST as the philosophy and much of the literature of medieval Europe were composed in a dead ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
On June 9, 1772, at a country dance, Goethe met Kestner’s betrothed, Charlotte Buff. The next day he visited her, and found a new charm in womanhood. “Lotte,” then twenty, ...
( Category:
England
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
III. WOLSEY AND THE CHURCH He recognized and largely exemplified the abuses that still survived in the ecclesiastical life of England: absentee bishops, worldly clergymen, idle monks, and priests snared ...
( Category:
Christianity
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
He wrote to Mme. Denis asking her to come and live with him in his paradise. She wisely preferred Paris and younger gallants. She warned him against staying long in ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
November 11,2014 )
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