Search results for "History of"
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ji Zhaojin [Zhaojin, Ji]

The Underwriters Savings Bank for the Far East (1930) The Underwriters Savings Bank for the Far East was a by-product of American Asiatic Underwriters, a leading insurance company created by ...
( Category: Economics October 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Reid, Anthony; Moore, Robert;

Konbaung Burma – a Doomed Modernization Turning from the Chao Phraya to the equally Theravada Buddhist Irrawaddy valley, one immediately notes the different balance between upriver and delta. Bama kings, ...
( Category: other October 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:M. B. B. Biskupski

Politics The first postwar government of Poland had a most unappetizing origin. Negotiations were held in Moscow in the spring of 1945. The Americans were represented by President Franklin Roosevelt’s ...
( Category: Europe October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:Soren Baker

AN ALTERNATE SLAUGHTAHOUSE When Brooklyn rapper Masta Ace appeared on Marley Marl’s 1988 landmark posse cut “The Symphony,” a high-energy song with top-tier lyricism from Big Daddy Kane, Kool G ...
( Category: Music October 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

At the Tuileries, the royal family found itself unpleasantly close to the National Assembly, which was meeting in the neighbouring riding school. It was now almost constantly in session, with ...
( Category: Europe October 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Trigg, Jonathan [Trigg, Jonathan]

Even with a good number of the old legion ‘hares’ signing back on, the ex-Totenkpof/Das Reich men and the new recruits from Flanders and the German war industries, there was ...
( Category: Military September 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-16 | Author:Gordon Kerr

The Thirty Years’ War The Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), a conflict about religion, fought in Germany by mercenary armies, involved most of the European powers and bankrupted a great many ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Doctor Nahla Abdo & Nur Masalha [Abdo, Doctor Nahla & Masalha, Nur]

7 Gender representation of oral history: Palestinian women narrating the stories of their displacement FAIHA ABDUL HADI The paper is based on highlighting the voices of Palestinian women who were ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Raymond A. Villareal

The New York Times Obituaries Demetrius “Quick” Johnson, undefeated welterweight professional boxer and number one on the Ring magazine pound-for-pound best boxers, died yesterday in New York City from massive ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett [Hughes-Hallett, Lucy]

What part Drake played in all this is a matter of dispute. Howard seldom mentions him in his reports. To the Spaniards, however, he was the paramount Englishman. He was ...
( Category: other September 24,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Storey, Nicholas [Storey, Nicholas]

( Category: Arts & Photography September 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-05 | Author:Matthew Kelly [Kelly, Matthew]

IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE The hardest things to do are those that have never been done before. If something has been done before, in most cases you have access to ...
( Category: Christian Books & Bibles September 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Bynum

CHAPTER 23 Digging Up Dinosaurs When I was very young, I had problems telling the difference between dinosaurs and dragons. In pictures, they often look alike, with huge teeth, powerful ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-31 | Author:Mazoyer, Marcel & Roudart, Laurence

The plot allotment corresponding to this new rotation can be represented in the following manner: Triennial rotation includes, then, like a biennial rotation, a long fallowing that lasts more than ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides September 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-28 | Author:Livy [Livy]

BOOK XXVII 1. This, then, was the state of affairs in Spain. Meanwhile in Italy the consul Marcellus, after Salapia had been betrayed into his hands, stormed and captured from ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 16,2018 )