Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2000-06-08 | Author:John Keay [Keay, John]
SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon Lambton’s death in January 1823 meant that Everest, as his only assistant of rank, now took acting charge of the Great Trigonometrical Survey. With it went ...
( Category:
Geography
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-09-07 | Author:Michael Isikoff
PINCUS finally got Libby on the phone. Libby wouldn’t say anything on the record. He wouldn’t allow Pincus to refer to him as a vice presidential aide or even a ...
( Category:
Executive Branch
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]
The Dollar Real Money: a 1922 U.S. silver dollar. The most ordinary thing in the world, a scrap of paper: a buck, a greenback. The dollar: flimsy fuel for the ...
( Category:
Geology
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Defoe
As to the suddenness of people dying at this time, more than before, there were innumerable instances of it, and I could name several in my neighborhood. One family without ...
( Category:
England
March 26,2014 )
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 |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Emma Larkin
MONKS IN MANDALAY were said to be holding out against the soldiers. Whenever soldiers approached the monasteries there, the temple bells were rung and monks would mass together to form ...
( Category:
Asian
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman [Klingaman, William K. & Klingaman, Nicholas P.]
8. THE PRICE OF BREAD “There has not been this whole summer one day of steady sunshine, not one day of heat, nor one night when a coverlet and blanket ...
( Category:
Climatology
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 | | Author:Julia Lovell
Chapter Fourteen THE TREATY OF NANJING In April 1842, a seventy-one-year-old Manchu called Yilibu received some terrible news. His distant relative, the emperor, had revoked his sentence of banishment to ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-28 | Author:Niall Ferguson [Ferguson, Niall]
secure rights of private property, the better to encourage saving and investment; secure rights of personal liberty … against both the abuses of tyranny and … crime and corruption; enforce ...
( Category:
Diplomacy
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-07-11 | Author:Erik Larson & Isaac Monroe Cline [Larson, Erik]
We have been absolutely unable to hear a word from Galveston since 4 P.M. yesterday. . . . G. L. Vaughan, Manager Western Union, Houston THE EAST SIDE Louisa Rollfing ...
( Category:
Natural Disasters
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Sheri Fink [Fink, Sheri]
SPECIAL AGENT Virginia Rider harbored a similar moral outrage. What had happened at Memorial was wrong. It was as basic as the tenets of her Catholic religion, but she wasn’t ...
( Category:
Atmospheric Sciences
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1970-07-08 | Author:John Hemming [Hemming, John]
18. OPPRESSION Forced labour: the forbidden practice of porterage THE first impression of any sensitive visitor to Peru in the mid-sixteenth century was a terrible decline in the native population. ...
( Category:
Peru
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:John Hemming [Hemming, John]
CHAPTER SEVEN The Black Side of Rubber The rubber bonanza exacted a heavy price – but the victims were human, not environmental. Fortunately, tapping does not destroy rubber trees. Seringueiros’ ...
( Category:
Ecology
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Garret Keizer
SPRINGFIELD, USA The first motorcycles manufactured in the United States were made in 1901 at the Indian Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, now the location of the corporate headquarters for handgun-makers ...
( Category:
Urban
March 26,2014 )
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