epub |eng | | Author:Edmund Richardson

13 No Return In Shimla, Burnes was starting to feel more like his old self. The air was clear and cool. Everyone seemed pleased to see him. He moved into ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard [Cherry-Garrard, Apsley]

PROFESSOR COSSAR EWART'S REPORT "It was a great disappointment to Dr. Wilson that no Emperor Penguin embryos were obtained during the cruise of the Discovery. But though embryos were conspicuous ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Ferol Egan [Egan, Ferol]

XIV Following the Winds of Summer THEODORE TALBOT found St. Louis a hurry-up, get-on-your-way exciting place, a westward-facing city filled with people on the move in that May of 1845. ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-02 | Author:James Poskett

Jagadish Chandra Bose went on to become one of the most famous physicists of the late nineteenth century. Following his lecture at the Royal Institution, he was invited to speak ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Kluger

TEN December 21, 1968 Technically, Gene Kranz did not need to be present at Mission Control in Houston on the day Apollo 8 launched. The official manning list—the roster of ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Harry Kelsey

FIVE Following the Leader Once the return route was established by Father Urdaneta, it was no longer necessary for mariners and explorers to risk the treacherous seas and storms of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-26 | Author:Kate Teltscher

The last week was occupied by endless leave-takings. A constant stream of monks came to Bogle’s apartment to wish him well ‘with Pots of Tea, little Presents, kind Looks, and ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:Brenda Ralph Lewis [Lewis, Brenda Ralph]

His chief rivals for the papal succession were Cardinal Ascanio Sforza of Milan and Cardinal Giuliani della Rovere, the latter being bankrolled to the tune of 200,000 gold ducats by ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Thomas E. Woods Jr. [Woods, Thomas E. Jr.]

The development of the teaching on usury has been so dramatic over the centuries that it inevitably prompts the question: has the Magisterium taught error anywhere along the line? The ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Owen Gingerich

Herein was fulfilled one of the most touching of prophecies. Years before, the opponents of Copernicus had said to him, "If your doctrines were true, Venus would show phases like ...

epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Tim Jeal [Jeal, Tim]

King Leopold II of Belgium Stanley first met the king in Brussels on 10 June 1878, having been brought from the railway station in central Brussels to his palace at ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]

Mattera had one more appointment to keep. In ways, he looked forward to this one most of all. Carl Fismer had a reputation for being a maestro in a business ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Brian Lavery

Food was a matter of considerable concern for the 110 passengers and crew. At first they were served out a week’s rations “of meal or of bread” all at once, ...

mobi |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe & Restall, Matthew [Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe]

To pass as a conquistador, Catalina de Erauso had to act out the conquistador stereotype to a degree that parodied it; the conquistador par excellence. Trouble finds Erauso wherever she ...