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epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Peter Jessup [Jessup, Peter]

Death and disasters THE RELATIVELY small size of New Zealand’s population means that disasters have far–reaching effects in the community. It’s often said that every household has some connection to ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand May 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Harley

THE RAILWAY AT ABOYNE For almost half a century, the Deeside village of Aboyne marked the end of the turnpike road from Aberdeen. By the 1850s, however, pressure from local ...
( Category: Great Britain May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hall, Edith; Stead, Henry;

Greeklessness, race, gender and class In a collection of essays, Grose remarks that ‘Greek is almost as rare among military people as money’.22 The same could be said in the ...
( Category: Greece May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ebeling, Florian;

Hermes as father of alchemy and predecessor of the Paracelsists and Rosicrucians. Here he points to images symbolizing a sentence from the Tabula Smaragdina: “Its father is the Sun, its ...
( Category: Individual Philosophers May 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kulke, Hermann; Rothermund, Dietmar; & Dietmar Rothermund [Hermann Kulke]

French ambitions and reverses Another major European power, which was destined to play an important part in the history of India in the eighteenth century, was also still rather insignificant ...
( Category: India May 14,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:James West Davidson

24 THE NEXT BIG THING ONE OF THE CONQUISTADORS WHO explored for treasure in Spanish America liked to display a motto below his portrait. It read, “By compasses and the ...
( Category: Archaeology May 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-25 | Author:Tom Phillips

Thérèse Humbert The Château de Marcotte didn’t actually exist, but that had never stopped Thérèse talking about it like it was the most real thing in the world. “She lied ...
( Category: Satire May 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jalal Ad-Din As-Suyuti [As-Suyuti, Jalal Ad-Din]

Al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik 86-96/705-15 A l-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Abū al-ʿAbbās. Ash-Shaʿbī said that his parents surrounded him with luxury, so he grew up without proper education (adab). Rawḥ ...
( Category: History May 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Carey

CHAPTER 23 Reform, Resolve and Religion: Victorian Women Poets ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, EMILY BRONTË, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was a child prodigy. She began writing poetry at four, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 7,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-11-09 | Author:kamlesh kapur [kapur, kamlesh]

Iron pillar at Mehrauli “India’s heritage of solving problems is often overshadowed by centuries of colonialism and conquest. Outside Delhi, I visited one of the oldest monuments to that history... ...
( Category: Asia May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Komireddi, KS [Komireddi, KS]

7 Terror If we do not know how to work properly and run an economy, at least we know how to fight properly. —Slobodan Milosevic On 28 September 2015, Mohammad ...
( Category: Asia May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-15 | Author:Kevin J. Anderson [Anderson, Kevin J.]

IV Like a mythical air spirit robed in green, red, and blue, the immense balloon drifted across Africa for two more weeks. Fergusson spent the daylight hours in scientific ecstasy, ...
( Category: Biographical May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Agata Tuszynska [Tuszynska, Agata]

* * * *1 Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886–1980): philosopher, historian of philosophy and art, and member of the Polish Academy of Science. Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886–1981): philosopher and logician, member of the ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Gabrys, Jennifer

Page 127 → FIVE Media in the Dump SALVAGE STORIES AND SPACES OF REMAINDER He could tell at a glance that these ancient machines took up most of the storage ...
( Category: Engineering May 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Thomas Rid [Rid, Thomas]

In May 1983 at a peace rally in Williamsburg, Virginia, during a high-profile summit meeting of industrial nations, particularly shrewd and well-equipped protesters displayed a German-language banner in the background ...
( Category: Media & Internet May 2,2020 )