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Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Sarah Parcak

Upmarket Afterlife Property Like other Middle Kingdom tombs that aimed high—even higher than the nomarchs of the Old Kingdom—this tomb had, when new, sought to imitate a pyramid’s front driveway. ...
( Category: Women in History July 10,2019 )
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Lisa Taddeo

The next morning it’s raining so hard that rain is shelling sideways against the window. The new development in which Lina lives seems to go on forever, metastasizing in soaked ...
( Category: Human Sexuality July 9,2019 )
Matilda by Catherine Hanley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Catherine Hanley [Hanley, Catherine]

1. Matilda (bottom) is depicted on a genealogical roll, along with her father, Henry I (right), her mother, Edith-Matilda (top), and her only legitimate brother, William Adelin (left). 2. Mainz ...
( Category: Women in History July 4,2019 )
Dancing Fish and Ammonites A Memoir by Penelope Lively
epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Penelope Lively [Lively, Penelope]

Memory A couple of years ago, Izzy yearned for an old-fashioned manual typewriter: “Vintage!” A Smith Corona was found off eBay, and she rejoiced in it until a new ribbon ...
( Category: Authors June 27,2019 )
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
epub |eng | 2013-02-02 | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

2 The second crossing of the Rhine (53 B.C.) 9. After marching from the country of the Menapii to that of the Treveri, Caesar determined to cross the Rhine for ...
( Category: Rome June 25,2019 )
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
epub | | | Author:Mary Kingsley

Chapter XI - Down the Rembwe * Setting forth how the Voyager descends the Rembwe River, with divers excursions and alarms, in the company of a black trader, and returns ...
( Category: Women in History June 24,2019 )
Virgin Warrior by Larissa Juliet Taylor
epub |eng | | Author:Larissa Juliet Taylor

Map 10 Joan's route to captivity and execution, March–May 1430. The bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, an important diplomat and former rector of the University of Paris, wrote offering money. ...
( Category: Women in History June 21,2019 )
10 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock
epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:Catherine Whitlock

6 Henrietta Leavitt (1868–1921) Royal Astronomical Society/Science Photo Library Henrietta Leavitt was an American with an influence that made her a star among astronomers. She discovered a way of ranking ...
( Category: Women in History June 21,2019 )
Reckoning by Linda Hirshman
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Hirshman

9 Roger Ailes and Donald Trump Republicans Corner the Market on Sex Abuse 2015–16 Candidate Trump Treats Women Like Animals As many conventional liberals in academia and the ALI were ...
( Category: Women in History June 17,2019 )
An Unconventional Wife by Mary Hoban
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Mary Hoban

If the arguments between them had a remarkable intensity, so too did their reconciliations. By the beginning of 1867 Julia was pregnant again — her tenth pregnancy in fifteen years ...
( Category: Women in History June 16,2019 )
Footbinding As Fashion by John Robert Shepherd;
epub |eng | 2019-06-13 | Author:John Robert Shepherd;

FIGURE 7.1.Proportions of females with bound feet by dollar value of handicrafts per female, 1928 (118 counties, Hebei; r = –0.024). Sources: Proportions bound-footed and female population: Neizheng gongbao 1929, ...
( Category: Women in History June 14,2019 )
Even Dogs Go Home to Die by Linda St. John
epub |eng | 2019-04-07 | Author:Linda St. John

Hog on Ice The first time Alice got out of her cage and around normal people was when she went to Physical Therapy Assistant School. She finally realized that none ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers June 12,2019 )
American Spirit by Taya Kyle
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Taya Kyle

One of the things that impressed me about the building was that it felt very much like a home, not a counseling center. There’s pizza in the kitchen and fun ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Cleopatra by Roller Duane W.;
epub |eng | 2010-06-06 | Author:Roller, Duane W.;

CHAPTER EIGHT Scholarship and Culture at the Court of Cleopatra THE INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF THE COURT of Cleopatra VII was the most distinguished that Ptolemaic Alexandria had seen since the ...
( Category: Women in History June 7,2019 )
Ivory Vikings--The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them by Nancy Marie Brown
epub |eng | 2015-07-08 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Five The Knights The knight is the last piece to place on the chessboard, for knights, as we think of them, in shining armor, were unknown in the North in ...
( Category: Chess June 6,2019 )

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