epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Barham [Barham, Andrea]

Scottish explorer Dr Livingstone got lost in the Congo In the popular imagination, Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone has gained the reputation of being a rather feckless explorer, since many ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Bethanne Patrick [Patrick, Bethanne]

Backyard * * * When humankind finally settled under a roof and had figured out how to bring things like light, air, and water inside, irony struck. Of course people ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Andrew F Smith

Soda Central Before World War II, hundreds of local soft drink manufacturers dotted the American landscape, but wartime sugar rationing drove many of them out of business. After the war, ...

epub | | 2016-01-06 | Author:Barrett Tillman [Tillman, Barrett]

LCVP: U.S. Army via Martin K.A. Morgan. Landing Craft, Assault (LCA) The British variant of the Higgins Boat (LCVP) differed primarily from the U.S. design in being lightly armored. Consequently, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Hatch, Mary Jo [Hatch, Mary Jo]

The politics of identity and diversity Feminists often argue that stereotypes cause us to discredit and devalue some members of society. They point to the fact that the high-paying, prestigious ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Principe, Lawrence M. [Principe, Lawrence M.]

Motion on Earth While the magnetic philosophy tried to explain why bodies fall, Galileo endeavoured to describe mathematically how they fall. He built inclined planes, pendula, and other devices to ...

epub |eng, eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Daniel Rosenberg

[11] * * * J. Pearson’s Historical and Astronomical Diagram from 1846 is marked out at regular one-year intervals from 31 BCE to 37 CE. Pearson strives to correct William ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

Sylvia Woods, “You Have to Fight for Freedom” (1973)11 I was born March 15, 1909. My father was a roofer. In those days they put slates on the roofs and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Peter D'Epiro

95 Who wrote the first sonnets? The Sicilian poet and court official Giacomo da Lentini, c. 1233 IN CANTO 24 OF THE PURGATORIO, Dante sees the soul of an earlier ...

epub |eng | 2004-04-01 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis [Davis, Kenneth C.]

338 D O N ’ T K N O W M U C H A B O U T H I S T O R Y neers introduced the moving ...

epub |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Jan Sjåvik

LITERATURE. Norway’s earliest literature consists of runic inscriptions made on stone during the Viking age as well as alliterative poetry that was mostly orally transmitted and is known in writing ...

mobi |eng | 2010-01-25 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

The mails are supposed to be sacred. . . . But let us call the American Protective League sometimes almost clairvoyant as to letters done by suspects. . . . ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Harvey Rachlin

The Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln’s hallowed manifesto of liberty and freedom, is a curious anomaly. After the states of the South seceded from the United States to form the ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:May-lee Chai

Hong Kong For most of the twentieth century, until 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. Hong Kong was originally ceded to Great Britain in 1842, after ...