World
epub |eng | | Author:Louisa May Alcott

* * * TILLY'S CHRISTMAS. 'I'm so glad to-morrow is Christmas, because I'm going to have lots of presents.' 'So am I glad, though I don't expect any presents but ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louisa May Alcott

THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free distribution of electronic works, by ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Eric H. Boehm [ERIC H. BOEHM]

ALFRED JOSEPH ARTHUR FORDANSKI and I were together all the years we lived illegally. We had known each other since childhood and had always been inseparable friends. Both of us ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-07 | Author:Nancy Reagin & Janice Liedl

Princess Leia is a hands-on leader in the Rebellion. (The Empire Strikes Back) About a thousand years later, a resolute Italian noblewoman roused her subjects to war against the might ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Michael Meyer

CHAPTER TEN Vortex of Change Each year, every year, the herds of East Africa’s Serengeti Plain begin a vast migration. They gather by the millions: wildebeests, giraffes, zebras, antelope, lions ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Claire Messud [Messud, Claire]

I have an old friend from college, long lost, who used to say that you should never let yourself think of a journey as long, because then it will feel ...
( Category: Urban Life March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rose George

Public bathrooms, and their absence, throw up big questions. For me, the questions started with the doors. In China, I asked a lot of people about why their toilets had ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Bill Fawcett [Fawcett, Bill]

48 PUTTING THE WRONG MAN IN THE WRONG PLACE Command Decision 1815 In many ways, the British victory at Waterloo was very much as the duke of Wellington described it ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard [O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin]

CHAPTER ELEVEN JERUSALEM OCTOBER, A.D. 29 DAY Pontius Pilate sits tall as he rides to Jerusalem. His wife, Claudia, travels in a nearby carriage, as Pilate and his escorts lead ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-23 | Author:Dorje, Gyurme & Coleman, Graham

Nevertheless, with the exception of certain persons who have experience of this [equanimity] it is difficult [for beings] to sever themselves from the deep-seated and long-lasting disease of negative habitual ...
( Category: Tibetan Book of the Dead March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jonathan Clements

7 BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE WORLD ICELAND, GREENLAND AND VINLAND There are some who claim that Gotland, with its hoards of silver, is the treasury of the Viking Age. ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:John Keay [John Keay]

7 An Ill-Starred Conjunction The installation of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Pakistan and of Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh signalled another sea-change in South Asia: for the first time ever, all ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Ben Thompson

* * * Even though his invasion of Russia went fubar, Charles XII was still badass because he was an emotionless automaton who didn’t register physical pain, only spoke when ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Joe Rhatigan [Rhatigan, Joe]

Inferiority Complex? In the late 1600s, Peter the Great of Russia wanted his traditional, long-bearded countrymen to look more like smooth-faced Europeans. When banning beards proved difficult (some believed you ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ann Jefferson [Jefferson, Ann]

5 - WORK AND LABOR INTRODUCTION The main impulse behind colonization of the Americas was the desire for wealth, shared by whites at every level from the kings and nobility ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )