Travel
epub |eng | 2019-12-20 | Author:Michael Myers Shoemaker [Shoemaker, Michael Myers]

Pontbrillant, governor of Loches, who certainly knew all the secrets of the donjons found an iron door which, upon being forced open, led in to a long passage cut in ...
( Category: Travel March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Margaret D'Este [D'Este, Margaret]

* * * Street at the Port of Sollér “The port of Soller is a fishing village of narrow streets....” (page 89) * * * Palmer from the Holy Land ...
( Category: African History March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Ward, John [Ward, John]

CHAPTER XII THE CAPTURE OF PERM: THE CZECHS RETIRE FROM THE FIGHTING The coup d'état had thrown the proposed Perm offensive completely into the background. The Czechs, under the influence ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Louise Jordan Miln [Miln, Louise Jordan]

CHAPTER XX CHINESE SHOES The Chinese women have enormous feet. They are reputed “small footed,” but our reputations often wrong us. No Chinese woman has a small foot. But even ...
( Category: Travel March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell [Powell, E. Alexander]

Footnotes: [2] Owing to my ignorance of Dutch and Buginese, I was unable to obtain a dependable account of this curious legend, but the several versions which I heard agreed ...
( Category: Travel March 5,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Craig L. Symonds [Symonds, Craig L.]

The Great White Fleet Mahan had postulated that battleships, especially battleships operating in a concentrated fleet, were the sine qua non of naval power. In 1902, the first year of ...
( Category: Architecture March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-30 | Author:R.S. Whiteway [Whiteway, R.S.]

CHAPTER XXVI. Of the Great Mourning made, and of the Obsequies celebrated by the Preste for the Soul of D. Christovão, and for the Portuguese who died in the Battle. ...
( Category: African History March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Harry Johnston [Johnston, Harry]

Reaching the western extremity of New Britain, Dampier sailed through the strait which still bears his name, into the sea of the Bismarck Archipelago. Off this part of the New ...
( Category: Australia & South Pacific March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-31 | Author:Percy Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Percy]

One of the pleasantest incidents in these London explorations is the sudden discovery of some quiet sequestered nook or corner, so sheltered and forgotten that the great hum and roar ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Gordon, Thomas Edward, Sir [Gordon, Thomas Edward, Sir]

CHAPTER V. —The military tribes and the royal guard —Men of the people as great monarchs —Persian sense of humour —Nightingales and poetry —Legendary origin of the royal emblem —Lion ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-18 | Author:Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte [Motte, Ellen N. La]

Vice-President Feng Kuo-Chang Courtesy of Far Eastern Bureau Vice-President Feng Kuo-Chang View of Peking View of Peking, looking north, towards Forbidden and Imperial Cities Feng's excuse is that he was ...
( Category: General March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-11 | Author:Arnold Bennett [Bennett, Arnold]

* * * “What we try to do,” he said, “is to bridge the gulf—to bridge the gulf between the East End and the West End. We don’t want your ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-24 | Author:B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker [Baker, B. Granville]

CHAPTER XII Islam—And Christianity—Turks and the law of the Prophet—Their relations to the Sultan—Bajazet II and his army—Slavs go over to Islam—The rebellion of Djem—Matthias Corvinus—The growth of Western culture—Jews ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education March 4,2023 )
epub |ita | 2023-01-11 | Author:Kevin Rudd [Rudd, Kevin]

( Category: Architecture March 3,2023 )