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epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |zho | 2009-11-09 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

The promise of serving together proved powerful. In Liverpool the earl of Derby, the great mover and shaker of the commercial northwest (and subsequently director-general of army recruiting), called on ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Simon Jenkins

Painted ceiling in the Royal Hospital in Greenwich: though firm Protestants, William and Mary revelled in Stuart grandeur and understood the potency of monarchical symbols. Anne, last of the Stuart ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Clarke

15 The Guillotine, a British Invention ‘There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.’ P. G. Wodehouse Before France ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]

Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Tim Harper & Tim Harper

MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jawaharlal Nehru [Nehru, Jawaharlal]

attitude was necessary and no truck with nationalism and sedi- tion. The Aligarh College group had become the leaders of the new Moslem intelligentsia and influenced sometimes openly, more often ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester

The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...
( Category: Volcanology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-11-21 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]

Corpses of Nanking citizens were dragged to the banks of the Yangtze and thrown into the river (Moriyasa Murase). Heaps of dead bodies wait for disposal on the wharves of ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]

In January 1938, not one shop was officially open in Nanking except for a military store and the International Committee’s rice shop. The harbor was practically empty of ships. Most ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Rajiv Chandrasekaran [Chandrasekaran, Rajiv]

The amusements grew tiresome after a while. Some staffers retreated to their trailers to watch movies on their laptops. Others grew homesick and despondent. The embassy health clinic doled out ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Abraham Rabinovich

Twenty-four GOLAN COUNTERATTACK THE SYRIAN DIVISIONS OCCUPYING A BULGE in the heart of the Golan Monday morning were ideally placed to punch a hole through the thin Israeli cordon around ...
( Category: Middle East March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Homer

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:J.C. McKeown [McKeown, J.C.]

The Athenians do not allow the populace as a whole to be the target of criticism in comedy, whereas they encourage attacks on individuals. They are well aware that a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 26,2014 )