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epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:George Grote [Grote, George]

While the army was thus condemned to temporary inaction at Ephesus, the conduct and position of Lysander began to excite intolerable jealousy in the superior officers; and most of all ...
( Category: Democracy February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-02 | Author:Alan J Potter [Potter, Alan J]

Chapter 18 Herod’s Legacy Herod’s son by Doris and his three sons by Mariamne I had all predeceased him, and his only son by Mariamne II had been disinherited. Five ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine February 17,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Mark Walczynski [Walczynski, Mark]

8 1730–1776: We Leave, Never to Return (Nimecimehkaamina) By 1730 Starved Rock was a well-known landmark, and as such was a familiar reference point in the vast wilderness of the ...
( Category: Native American February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-08 | Author:Dave Day, Tegan Carpenter [Dave Day, Tegan Carpenter]

6 Cold War influences Introduction Given the increasing globalization of sport throughout the twentieth century it was difficult for the traditional British amateur approach to coaching and training to establish ...
( Category: History February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Edward Dowden, Edmund Gosse [Edward Dowden, Edmund Gosse]

II Bossuet's contemporaries esteemed him as a preacher less highly than they esteemed the Jesuit Bourdaloue. The life of LOUIS BOURDALOUE (1632–1704) is told in the words of Vinet: "He ...
( Category: World February 17,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Raúl Necochea López [López, Raúl Necochea]

The Local and the Regional in Population Policymaking The earliest historiography of family planning in Latin America tends to focus on how foreign agents, mainly from the United States, carved ...
( Category: Peru February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Nicholas Storey [Storey, Nicholas]

CHAPTER 7 Country Activities and Wine Cellars ‘Town and country do your best for in this parish I must rest. Words that traditionally accompany the throwing up of the St ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Paul E. Vandor [Vandor, Paul E.]

ABOU BEN ADHEM Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in the room, Making it rich ...
( Category: History February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Joseph Krauskopf [Krauskopf, Joseph]

* * * These stories and their lyric poetry exercised a potent influence over the literature of Southern and Western Europe. It can be traced in the reproduction of many ...
( Category: Jewish Life February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-20 | Author:Livy, Cyrus R. Edmonds [Livy, Cyrus R. Edmonds]

The Roman ambassador then replied: "The Macedonians first, and afterwards the Athenians, have obliged me to change entirely the method of my discourse. For, on the one hand, the Macedonians, ...
( Category: Italy February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:J. F. Hurst [Hurst, J. F.]

For a number of years the Pastoral Conferences, composed of small circles of devoted ministers and laymen, had been in existence, and kept their attention carefully directed to the necessities ...
( Category: Religion & Spirituality February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-12 | Author:Charles Downer Hazen [Hazen, Charles Downer]

For months the disgusting traffic went on and, when it ended in the "Conclusion" of March, 1803, really dictated by Bonaparte, the number of German principalities had greatly decreased. All ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-17 | Author:Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga, John Maver [Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga, John Maver]

Note VII.—Page 18. This shell, which even here, as every where else, bears the name of cowrie, forms likewise the currency of Africa, as it formerly did that of India; ...
( Category: Philippines February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-04 | Author:Basil Wilson Duke [Duke, Basil Wilson]

It is probable that no other man than Colonel Morgan would have escaped (in such a situation) death or capture. But his presence of mind and address, in the midst ...
( Category: Nonfiction February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Henry S. Beebe [Beebe, Henry S.]

* * * CHAPTER XI. Table of Contents Western Towns—Surrounding Country—Scene as viewed from the Chamber's House—Salubrity of the Climate—Water—Soil—Markets—Roads—Hogs and Cattle—Dairies—Sheep—Grass fatted meat—Horses—Choice of Markets—Scarcity of Timber—Morals and Society—Former ...
( Category: Americas February 17,2023 )