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Sugar by Elizabeth Abbott
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Abbott [Elizabeth Abbott]

Isaac Cruikshank’s savage cartoon of Captain John Kimber as he prepares to punish an enslaved African teenager too sick to eat by whipping her upside-down. The woman later died. The ...
( Category: History March 27,2014 )
Bhagavad Gita for Dummies by Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy
epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy [Moorthy, Vishnuvarthanan]

“Our Life: We might worship gods with many forms, but finally everything is one supreme power, this is told by god in Gita and not by us. So why do ...
( Category: World March 27,2014 )
The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince
epub |eng | 2001-09-02 | Author:Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince [Picknett, Lynn & Prince, Clive]

The first experiments were authorised by the CIA in 1950, code-named BLUEBIRD, later renamed ARTICHOKE and then, in 1953, MKULTRA. The US Navy had a similar research program, Project CHATTER ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge March 27,2014 )
To a Distant Day - The Rocket Pioneers by Chris Gainor
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...
( Category: Aircraft Design & Construction March 27,2014 )
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-16 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. Job xxxiii. 29, 30. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 27,2014 )
The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague De Camp
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:L. Sprague De Camp

THE LATER ROMAN ENGINEERS SEVEN In the final century of the Republic, Rome expanded swiftly, gobbling up all the other nations of the Inner Sea. At the same time the ...
( Category: Mysticism March 27,2014 )
The Birth of the Clinic by Foucault Michel
epub |eng | | Author:Foucault, Michel

7 SEEING AND KNOWING ‘Hippocrates applied himself only to observation and despised all systems. It is only by following in his footsteps that medicine can be perfected’.1 But the privileges ...
( Category: Modern March 27,2014 )
[Black Fleet Crisis] - 01 by Before The Storm (Michael Mcdowell)
epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Before The Storm (Michael Mcdowell) [Storm, Before The]

Chapter 9 For twenty-two days Colonel Pakkpekatt’s little armada had flown station with the Teljkon vagabond in deep space near Gmar Askilon. In all that time the mystery ship had ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 27,2014 )
Caesar's Wife by W. Somerset Maugham
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)]

Violet. [Brightly.] You're very gay this afternoon, Arthur. One doesn't often hear you whistle. Arthur. D'you think it's unbecoming to my years or to my dignity? Violet. Shall I give ...
( Category: Satire March 27,2014 )
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant / Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
epub |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:John Foxe [Foxe, John]

( Category: Christianity March 27,2014 )
Greville Fane by Henry James
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

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( Category: World March 27,2014 )
Georgina's Reasons by Henry James
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * PART III. * * * V. Mrs. Percival proved very pretty. It is more gracious to begin with this declaration, instead of saying that, in the first ...
( Category: World March 27,2014 )
Four Meetings by Henry James
epub | | | Author:Henry James

* * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Four Meetings, by Henry James *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOUR MEETINGS *** ***** This file should be ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 27,2014 )
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

* * * II.--GHENT--BRUGES. GHENT. (1840.) The Beguine College or Village is one of the most extraordinary sights that all Europe can show. On the confines of the town of ...
( Category: British & Irish March 27,2014 )
The Bostonians, Vol. II by Henry James
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * 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 March 27,2014 )

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