Civilization & Culture
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert C. Knapp [Knapp, Robert C.]
Freeborn: C. Cornelius Cai filius Lupulus = Gaius Cornelius Lupulus, son of Gaius. Freedman: C. Cornelius Cai libertus Lupulus = Gaius Cornelius Lupulus, freedman of Gaius. Gaius Lupulus the freedman ...
( Category:
Rome
June 1,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Lars Brownworth [Brownworth, Lars]
The trouble started in Rome, where Pope Leo III was growing more unpopular with each passing day. He had risen from peasant stock and as such was hated by the ...
( Category:
Rome
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
VI. On Politics and Eternal Peace The Prussian government might have pardoned Kant’s theology, had he not been guilty of political heresies as well. Three years after the accession of ...
( Category:
History & Surveys
May 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | 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
March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 1963-01-02 | Author:William H. McNeill [McNeill, William H.]
* * * Meanwhile, two major centers of high culture had developed in the Americas—one in the highlands of Central America, the other in the coastal valleys and uplands of ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
March 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:Hardy, Henry, Banville, John, Berlin, Isaiah
Appendix: Violence and Terror TWO EXCERPTS FROM MAISTRE’S SOIRÉES I The Violence of Nature THE FIRST EXCERPT IS THE FULL text of the passage from Maistre translated in part on ...
( Category:
Good & Evil
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-25 | Author:Keith Hopkins & Mary Beard [Hopkins, Keith & Beard, Mary]
THE PEOPLE ON PARADE It is the first rule of any spectacle that the audience is as important an element as the display itself: we go not only to watch, ...
( Category:
General
February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]
( Category:
Cultural
February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]
It is also probable that the toilet of the statue was made every day, that its body and head were dressed, as in the Egyptian ritual. We have seen that ...
( Category:
General
February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]
CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category:
General
February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Ridley, Matt [Ridley, Matt]
solar panels the size of Spain or wind farms the size of Kazakhstan or woodland the size of India and Pakistan or hayfields for horses the size of Russia and ...
( Category:
Economic History
February 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-30 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Diamond, Jared]
Just a stick in the ground The most recent of the three episodes related in this chapter unfolded many years after my canoe accident had convinced me of the virtues ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:E.M. Berens [Berens, E.M.]
CONSUS. Consus was the god of secret counsel. The Romans believed that when an idea developed itself spontaneously within the mind of an individual, it was Consus who had prompted ...
( Category:
Greece
February 3,2015 )
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