mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Guy Halsall

A: The Origins of the southernmost English Kingdom (Kent) (32 words) B.1: Introductory comment about Arthur (16 words) B.2: Battle 1 (9 words) B.3 Battles 2–5 (18 words)Z B.1 & ...

mobi |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:Adam Ardrey

Having placed his bare foot in the stone—according to John McLeod in his book Highlanders—the Lord of the Isles then turned “sunwise” three times, taking in the four points of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Mark Collins Jenkins

WITCHES AND WEREWOLVES In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull making witchcraft a heresy in Catholic Europe. Yet, the hysteria that overtook Europe in the 16th and 17th ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Richard Ellis

SHOWERS OF ASH rain down on the lagoon of Santorini in 1870 as the volcano begins to rumble. (illustration credit 6.5) According to Bond and Sparks, “it is the only ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:David Hackett Fischer

Penrith Beacon stands high on a hill near the Cumbrian town of the same name. Its purpose was to warn the English countryside when Scottish raiders were over the border. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Campbell, Joseph [Campbell, Joseph]

PART II THE COSMOGONIC CYCLE CHAPTER I EMANATIONS 1. From Psychology to Metaphysics It IS not difficult for the modern intellectual to concede that the symbolism of mythology has a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-12 | Author:Robert Graves

8. Pindar: Pythian Odes ix. 79 ff.; Plutarch: On Love 17; Pausanias: ix. 23.1. 9. Homer: Iliad ii. 653–70; Apollodorus: ii. 8.2; Pindar: Olympian Odes vii. 27 ff. 10. Diodorus ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-13 | Author:Robert Graves

2. Strabo: x. 1. 3; Stephanus of Byzantium sub Argura; Suidas sub Isis. 3. John Malalas: Chronicles ii. p. 28, ed. Dindorff. 1. This myth consists of several strands. The ...

mobi |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Roberts Liardon

5 THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL Jesus Christ said that the gates of hell would not be able to prevail against His church. Some people misunderstand that. They ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-14 | Author:Aesop

XCIX The Thief and His Mother A schoolboy stole a hornbook from one of his schoolmates and brought it home to his mother. Instead of punishing him, she encouraged him ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

At the Western Palace When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hell's Angels

We were almost to Williams' store, and I suddenly remembered my burr-haired inquisitor with his high-powered language barrier. We made the turn at the bottom of the hill and I ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Matt Kaplan [Kaplan, Matt]

Siren song In the Odyssey, Odysseus runs into numerous temptations and threats of seduction. The Lotus-Eaters try to lure him into a life of eternal flower eating, and the beautiful ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Jackson, Kenneth [Jackson, Kenneth]

159. You Are Whiter than the Swan … You are whiter than the swan on the swampy lake, you are whiter than the white sea-gull of the stream, you are ...