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A Global History of War: From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century by Gérard Chaliand
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Gérard Chaliand [Chaliand, Gérard]

AFTER GENGHIS KHAN In the absence of primogeniture, battles over succession occurred frequently in both nomadic and sedentary societies, as will be seen in the Ottoman Empire. Because uncles, brothers, ...
( Category: Engineering March 31,2020 )
A History of the Dasnami Naga Sannyasis by Bhattacharyya Ananda; & Ananda Bhattacharyya
epub |eng | | Author:Bhattacharyya, Ananda; & Ananda Bhattacharyya

The Purificatory Sacrifice (Viraja Hom) Pouring out ghee into the fire with a wooden ladle, the sannyasi should chant the following mantras: Om: May the wind in all parts of ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 30,2020 )
A History of Ireland and Her People by Eleanor Hull
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Eleanor Hull

APPENDIX I. - POPE ADRIAN'S BULL "LAUDABILITER" AND NOTE UPON IT "Adrian, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his most dearly beloved son in Christ, the illustrious king ...
( Category: Europe March 30,2020 )
The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces by Arthur Waley
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Arthur Waley

2. Turkic Story The ancestor of the Turks was Shê-mo. The lake-spirit Shê-li displayed his divinity to the west of the cave called A-shih-tê. To Shê-mo a divine wonder happened; ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 30,2020 )
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by Unknown
epub |eng | 2010-02-04 | Author:Unknown

Organization In the years immediately following its foundation, a military order consisted of a small group of brethren under the leadership of a master: at this stage little governmental machinery ...
( Category: Engineering March 29,2020 )
The Seleucid Empire: The History of the Empire Forged in the Ancient Near East After Alexander the Great’s Death by Charles River Editors
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Charles River Editors

A bust believed to depict Hannibal The Roman policy of holding royal Seleucid children as hostages continued until the final dissolution of the Seleucid Dynasty and proved to be a ...
( Category: Greece March 28,2020 )
A History of London's Prisons by Geoffrey Howse
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Geoffrey Howse

Notwithstanding Edith Thompson’s physical state at her execution (she had to be carried from the Condemned Cell to the drop by four male warders), the execution itself was not without ...
( Category: Criminology March 28,2020 )
History of the Modern World by B.V. Rao
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:B.V. Rao [Rao, B.V.]

New Imperialism The term ‘Imperialism’ simply means “the policy and practice of forming and maintaining an empire”. The European powers followed this concept from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. ...
( Category: Asia March 28,2020 )
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep: A Pictorial History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II by Bruce Gamble
epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Bruce Gamble [Gamble, Bruce]

With an expansion to forty pilots for the forthcoming combat tour, the Black Sheep integrated numerous replacements at Turtle Bay. Interestingly, a total of forty-six individuals posed for the squadron ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 28,2020 )
A Brief History of Bashulia’s National Constitution by Zhongjing Liu
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Zhongjing Liu

The Communist International invaded East Asia with the Kuomintang as the white gloves. As a result, it caused the Wanxian Massacre (1926) that we know. The "Wanxian Massacre" was of ...
( Category: other March 28,2020 )
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble & Linda Gordon & Astrid Henry
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Dorothy Sue Cobble & Linda Gordon & Astrid Henry [Cobble, Dorothy Sue]

Culture Cultural change happens particularly slowly, with few precise milestones, so we may not notice it or what created it. In fact, feminism transformed popular culture, though often it took ...
( Category: Women in History March 28,2020 )
Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry by Schmid Sonja D
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Schmid, Sonja D. [Schmid, Sonja D.]

Epilogue: Writing about Chernobyl after Fukushima Before March 11, 2011, classifying Chernobyl as the worst disaster at a civilian nuclear plant in history was a no-brainer. But as politicians, journalists, ...
( Category: Technology March 27,2020 )
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Stone

Augusto Pinochet greeting Kissinger, June 1976. After overthrowing Allende in a CIA-aided coup ordered by Nixon himself, Pinochet seized power and proceeded to murder more than 3,200 opponents and jail ...
( Category: History & Theory March 27,2020 )
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes
epub, pdf |eng | 1988-05-18 | Author:George Holmes [Holmes, George]

The eleventh-century chronicle of John Scylitzes (here in a thirteenth-century illustrated manuscript), describes the Muslim sack of Thessalonica in 904. The reconquest of Crete (961) and Cyprus (965), part of ...
( Category: Europe March 27,2020 )
History of Pittsburgh Volume 2 by George Thornton Fleming Juergen Beck
epub |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:George Thornton Fleming, Juergen Beck [George Thornton Fleming, Juergen Beck]

CHAPTER XIII. On the Battlefields. One of the noted regiments of the Civil War was the 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, which had one company from Allegheny county. The regiment was ...
( Category: State & Local March 27,2020 )

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