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A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Simon Parkin

Captain Walker’s interest in anti-U-boat tactics long pre-dated the war. In the 1920s, years before he was made a captain, Buttercup’s inventor had volunteered to undergo a course at HMS ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy February 20,2020 )
Hunting Pirate Heaven by Kevin Rushby
epub |eng | 2008-02-17 | Author:Kevin Rushby

9 Marooned O my America, my new found land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned, My mine of precious stones, my empery, How blessed am I in this ...
( Category: Ship History February 18,2020 )
The Road to Eleusis by R. Gordon Wasson
epub |eng | 1978-02-02 | Author:R. Gordon Wasson

Carl A. P. Ruck Chapter Four Ancillary Data A Greek scholar, writing just half a century ago, did not hesitate to dismiss the worship of Demeter at Eleusis as “trivial ...
( Category: History February 18,2020 )
Damascus by Burns Ross;
epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Burns, Ross;

‘The last victory’ The story of Saladin’s burial in 1193 is indicative of the leader’s lack of a monument complex. He had prepared no tomb to mark his demise, no ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer February 17,2020 )
The Age of the Sages by Mark W Muesse
epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Mark W Muesse [Muesse, Mark W]

Awakened Understanding As suggested earlier, we can distinguish between two kinds of right understanding. The second form is awakened understanding, the content of the enlightenment experience. It means directly seeing ...
( Category: Comparative Religion February 16,2020 )
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
azw3 |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman [Finkelstein, Israel]

A Closer Look at Israel’s Later History Archaeologists often speak of long periods of time in which little is changed—but only because the nature of their finds makes it hard ...
( Category: Old Testament February 16,2020 )
Mudlark by Lara Maiklem
epub |eng | 2019-09-26 | Author:Lara Maiklem

That dark night at London Bridge, as the tide dropped lower and lower, my torch lit up treasures all around me: buttons, coins, buckles, and the fine shards of broken ...
( Category: Rivers February 15,2020 )
Engineering the Pyramids by Dick Parry
epub |eng | | Author:Dick Parry

EIGHT Levers, Rockers and Cranes Methods which have been proposed in the literature for raising the stones to build the pyramids may be broadly divided into two categories: those that ...
( Category: Architecture February 15,2020 )
United States Marines in World War II by unknow
epub |eng | 2020-01-04 | Author:unknow

The Marines stared numbly at the desolation that surrounded them. Lieutenant Colonel Russell Lloyd, executive officer of the 6th Marines, took a minute to scratch out a hasty note to ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 14,2020 )
Early Mesopotamia by Postgate Nicholas
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Postgate, Nicholas [Postgate, Nicholas]

The merchants will also have profited, but their role is best illustrated by moving back in time about a century, and downstream to Larsa, shortly after its incorporation into the ...
( Category: Mesopotamia February 14,2020 )
Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan by John L. Stephens
epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:John L. Stephens [Stephens, John L.]

Early in the morning we set out for the ruins of Zayi, or Salli. At a short distance from the rancho we saw in an overgrown milpa on our left ...
( Category: Travel Writing February 13,2020 )
Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins
azw3 |eng | 2004-12-12 | Author:Lesley Adkins [Adkins, Lesley]

Thirteen: An Irish Intruder A whole month of digging at Nineveh produced only a few fragments of sculpture and cuneiform inscriptions, and so Layard decided to return to Nimrud, employing ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer February 13,2020 )
Lonely Planet Best of South America by Lonely Planet
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

( Category: General South America Travel Guides February 10,2020 )
A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-04 | Author:Henry Fishwick

About 150 varieties of these Lancashire tokens were issued before the close of the seventeenth century,168 some of which indicate the trade followed by the issuer, and thus furnish some ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 25,2020 )
The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art by Paul Bahn & Michel Lorblanchet
epub |eng | 2017-07-10 | Author:Paul Bahn & Michel Lorblanchet [Bahn, Paul]

41. The Acheulian ‘proto-figurine’ from Berekhat Ram (Israel), dating to around 280,000–250,000 years ago. It is a largely natural volcanic nodule, just 3.5 cm (1.4 in.) long, but there has ...
( Category: Archaeology January 22,2020 )

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