Science & Math
mobi |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Frances Gies; Joseph Gies

Heavy plow, with coulter and mouldboard, drawn by four oxen. British Library, Luttrell Psalter, Ms. Add. 42130, f. 170. Plows and plow animals were shared to make up plow teams. ...
( Category: England March 25,2014 )
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 & ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Bella Bathurst

SIX Skerryvore The helicopter skims low over Mull, dipping past swatches of forestry and fox-red moorland. Out beyond, past Staffa and Fingal’s Cave, lies the Atlantic, placid today but easily ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Piers Brendon

This verdict was heard in other parts of Africa painted red on the map. Settler colonies in particular seemed bent on following the Boer example: one Cewa chief complained that ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-14 | Author:Richard Overy

A VICTORY OF SORTS I think we have managed to avoid losing this war. But when I think how on earth we are going to win it, my imagination quails. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-09 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

Antiquarianism and English History “Britannia”: frontispiece illustration to William Camden’s Britannia, 1600 CHAPTER 30 Among the Ruins In his twenty-ninth year John Milton wrote in a letter that “my genius ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Neil Oliver

Mary had no such qualms and gamely set out to survey the field for a suitable husband. (This behaviour can only have added to Knox’s rage. While he was almost ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:C. J. Chivers

III AFTERMATH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AK-47’S GLOBAL SPREAD CHAPTER 7 The Accidental Rifle So carry your rifle (they don’t give a damn), just pray you won’t need it while ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Occultism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-02-04 | Author:Joan Druett

JAMES MAHONEY, WRECKED WITH THE SHIP INVERCAULD. MAY 10th ‘64. It was August 12, 1864, almost exactly three months from the time when the Invercauld had foundered. FOURTEEN Equinox Sunday, ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Michael Pearson

Once the Portuguese arrived they engaged in vigorous competition with their Muslim rivals. The situation in Siam in the middle of the sixteenth century was well described in a letter ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )