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Behind the Book Presents: The Lecture Series Discover the stories behind history's greatest books. A World eBook Library Production

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For the first time all the original sources for early British History have been collected together in one document. King Arthur, Julius Caesar, Saint Patrick, Battles, Invasions, Romance and magic. For the first time the original words of Welsh Bards and Roman Soldiers are combined to give one story. Irish myths, Greek histories, Saxon Chronicles. Read the original stories behind Tristram and Isolda, Maximus, Constantine. The first Christians, the last pagans. It's all here in one book....

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Introduction. Bibliography and Links. The First Age, From Adam to The Flood. The Second Age, After The Flood. 2664 BCE. The Thrird Age. The Battle of Moytura. The Wooing of Etain. The Battle of Cnucha. Fin mac Cumhail.l The Ynglinga Saga. Vikings? On the Volga. The Destruction of Dind Rig. 594 BCE. The Fifth Age. Herodutus. Celts Invade Italy. 106 – 43 BCE. Cicero. The Era of Caesar. The Writings of Julius Caesar. 55 BCE – 40 AD. Tacitus. Romans in Germany. Christians in Britain. Strabo. 41 – 99 Rome invades Britain. Caractacus. Boedicea. The Battle of Airtach. Tain Bo Cuailnge. Tain from The Book of Leinster. Pliny on Britain. Pliny on Mining, Metals and Magnets. Pliny on Pottery, Buildings and Amber. Tacitus, Agricola. Tacitus, Britain. Tacitus, Germany. 101 – 199 Hadrian, Lucius, Severus, Ptolomy Geography. 200 – 299 Severus. Saint Alban. 300 – 349 Constantine. 350 – 399 St Patrick. Nial. Maximus. Macsen Wledig. Saint Declan. Notitia Dignitatum. 400 – 410 Stilich., Germanus. Niall. Honorius. Pelagius. Letter to Demetrias. 411 – 429 Vortigern. Saint Patrick. 430 – 450 Hengist, ...

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《铁血除弊事》是一部精彩万分的悬疑谍战网络文学，故事之所以精彩，除了人物塑造较为成功之外，关键在于本书的时代背景：1950年6月，朝鲜战争爆发，美国出兵朝鲜，杜鲁门下令第七舰队进驻台湾海峡。 故事就是在这一历史关键转折点铺展开来的，局势对当时的国民党非常不利，五月舟山、海南相继沦陷，若战事无法继续扭转，台湾就岌岌可危了。山雨欲来风满楼，此刻的台湾岛内民众要求反腐消除积弊的声浪此起彼伏，蒋总裁为了挽回民心，同年下令枪毙了陈仪，把228事件的历史罪责都归咎于陈仪一人。 为了挽救濒临灭亡的国民党政权，蒋建丰结合当年自己在上海打老虎时期的失败教训，重新组建起了一支铁血救国会，目的是希望铁血救国会能够在香港反腐缉私事务中发挥积极作用，找到国民党内部大老虎们在香港走私洗钱的确凿证据，自己也好借此机会在岛内开展整顿党务工作，从而肃清党内的腐败分子和内奸，净化党员队伍。唯有如此，台湾岛内新的币值改革才有成功的一线生机。 为了推行新的币值改革，铁血救国会不惜远赴香港搜集情报，然而一场看不见的血雨腥风正在等待着他们，在朝鲜战争疑云密布下，各路人马在香港这座弹丸之地粉墨登场，展开了一场你死我活的殊死较...

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《铁血除弊事》是一部精彩万分的悬疑谍战网络文学，故事之所以精彩，除了人物塑造较为成功之外，关键在于本书的时代背景：1950年6月，朝鲜战争爆发，美国出兵朝鲜，杜鲁门下令第七舰队进驻台湾海峡。 故事就是在这一历史关键转折点铺展开来的，局势对当时的国民党非常不利，五月舟山、海南相继沦陷，若战事无法继续扭转，台湾就岌岌可危了。山雨欲来风满楼，此刻的台湾岛内民众要求反腐消除积弊的声浪此起彼伏，蒋总裁为了挽回民心，同年下令枪毙了陈仪，把228事件的历史罪责都归咎于陈仪一人。 为了挽救濒临灭亡的国民党政权，蒋建丰结合当年自己在上海打老虎时期的失败教训，重新组建起了一支铁血救国会，目的是希望铁血救国会能够在香港反腐缉私事务中发挥积极作用，找到国民党内部大老虎们在香港走私洗钱的确凿证据，自己也好借此机会在岛内开展整顿党务工作，从而肃清党内的腐败分子和内奸，净化党员队伍。唯有如此，台湾岛内新的币值改革才有成功的一线生机。 为了推行新的币值改革，铁血救国会不惜远赴香港搜集情报，然而一场看不见的血雨腥风正在等待着他们，在朝鲜战争疑云密布下，各路人马在香港这座弹丸之地粉墨登场，展开了一场你死我活的殊死较...

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· 第一节蒋建丰驱车探病房谢穆澜病榻思情人 · 第二节 前线战事沦陷频传 重整币值事在人为 · 第三节梁复生掀怒骂狂潮蒋建丰谈孤臣孽子 · 第四节行辕会议众说纷纭出兵朝鲜意见不合 · 第五节谢国栋后海逢玉英白发红颜续写佳话 · 第六节精锐部队蓄势待发以战养战计划泡汤 · 第七节梁复生抒郁勃之气蒋建丰论黄埔精神 · 第八节谢梁二人喜结良缘训练中心开筵设酒 · 第九节谢穆澜枕边莺声泣露梁复生灯下验对枪伤 · 第十节徐寅贬谪基隆监狱CC派系势如危卵 · 第十一节梁复生冷嘲热讽徐寅蒋建丰过问行总舞弊 · 第十二节黄蒲诚甄别洪门中人蒋建丰灯下阅批点将 · 第十三节前线急缺运输工具谢老率众战略南下 · 第十四节谢国栋感慨武装和平梁复生一行劈波斩浪 · 第十五节宋子亮诧异戏园突访谢国栋设计巧献金条 · 第十六章 宋子亮携美眷参加晚会 战斗同盟酝酿绑架计划 · 第十七章 壮汉夜袭铁血救国会 谢穆澜孤胆勇夺手枪 · 第十八节 梁复生损兵折将受阻香港 蒋建丰摘埴索涂临危受命 · ​第十九章 铁血救国会全军覆没 谢穆澜为爱命丧黄泉...

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This book explains How the universe was formed. How Life was formed How civilization was formed Why civilization is evil The undead

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The Sense of Pure Wonder is a continual sense of awareness which is curious about everything, and never stops being curious. It uses all of the cognitive skills of your mind; continually asking questions, continually figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that is in a constant, continual unending state of Learning....

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Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-137 How the Universe came into Being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 138-165 Structural Dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 167-224 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 225-262 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 263-305 Human Psychobiologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 306-339 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 340-769 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 770-1533 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans CHAPTER 7: Pgs 1534-2726 Entities and the Alternative...

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“Brave Men is a collection of Pyle’s newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. . .”—Kirkus Reviews....

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Introduction Sicily - June-September, 1943 1. Invasion Prelude 2. The Armada Sails 3. D-Day: - Sicily 4. The Navy Stands 5. Medics and Casualties 6. The Engineers 7. Campaigning 8. Sicily Conquered Italy - December 1943-April, 1944 9. Artillerymen 10. Personalities and Asides 11. Mountain Fighting 12. Dive Bombers 13. The Fabulous Infantry 14. Light Bombers 15. LST Cruise 16. AnzioNettuno 17. Beachhead Fighters 18. Supply Line 19. Hospital Ship 20. Farewell to Italy England - April-May, 1944 21. This England 22. Brass Hats 23. The Flying Wedge 24. Stand France - June-September, 1944 25. The Whistle Blows 26. On the Road to Berlin 27. Vive La France 28. American AckAck 29. Street Fighting 30. Reconnoitering's 31. Ordnance 32. BreakThrough 33. Hedgerow Fighting 34. Paris 35. A Last Word Index of Persons and Places Copyright...

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مقدمة المؤلفة: الحمد لله الذي علمنا ما لا نعلم وجعل كتابه هدى لطريق الرشاد ونبيه رحمة للعباد وآله مناراً للسداد، وصلى الله على الرسول محمد وآله الأخيار أناء الليل وأطراف النهار. وبعد: فقد شكل العلويون ظاهرةً بارزة في التاريخ الإسلامي وهذه الظاهرة لم تكن آنية لفترة وجيزة بل كان لها صدى واسعاً على امتداد التاريخ. إذ مثلَّ خطُ المعارضة للسلطات الحاكمة في العهدين الأموي والعباسي وفق المبدأ الذي يعتقدون به وهو أن الإمام علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام هو الولي الشرعي لعموم المسلمين وأنّ ولايته تعتبر امتداداً طبيعياً لولاية الرسول الأكرم صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم وبنصٍ منه على ذلك. وقد اختلفت سياستهم في هذين العهدين فنرى أن بعضهم فضل أن تكون معارضته بطريقة سلمية في حين أن البعض الآخر تبنى خط المواجهة العسكرية والكفاح المسلح فكانت ثورة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام هي نبراس الثورات العلوية ومعينها الذي لا ينضب. وقد اختلف المؤرخون الذين سجلوا أحداثها في تقييمهم لها على ما نفهمه من سردهم لتلك الأحداث فقد أعطيت صفة الشرعية من قبل بعضهم مطلقاً، وقد سلبت عنها هذه الصفة من قبل البعض الآخر مطلقاً أيضاً، في حين فصل آخرون فأضفى صفة الشرعية على تلك الثورات دون بعضها الآخر. ومن نعم الله تعالى عليَّ توفيقي لهذه الدراسة، فكان هذا البحث الموسوم بـ (الثورات ...

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المحتويات الإهداء 6 المقدمة 7 الفصل الأول العلويين، المفهوم، التكويين، الامتداد، الحراك السياسي المبحث الأول: العلويون المصطلح والمفهوم 13 المبحث الثاني: الحراك السياسي 27 المبحث الثالث: جذور الصراع بين العلويين والأمويين 55 الفصل الثاني الثورات العلوية في العصر الأموي (41 - 132هـ / 661 - 749م) المبحث الأول: مبررات قيام ثورة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام المسار التاريخي والنتائج 79 نتائج ثورة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام 111 أولا / النصر المعنوي 115 ثانياً / إسقاط فكرة الشرعية الأموية المظلمة 120 ثالثاً / تأجيج وتجديد روح الجهاد الإسلامي 132 المبحث الثاني / الثورات العلوية بعد استشهاد الإمام الحسين عليه السلام 134 أولا / ثورة التوابين (65هـ / 684م) 134 ثانياً / ثورة المختار (66 - 67هـ / 685 - 686م) 142 أولا / الاعتماد في دعوته على العلويين من بني هاشم 150 ثانياً / الاقتصاص من قتلة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام 158 ثالثاً / تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية 161 مقتل المختار 164 المبحث الثالث / الثورات الزيدية وموقف أئمة أهل البيت عليهم السلام 172 أولا / ثورة زيد بن علي (122 هـ/739م) 172 ثانياً / ثورة يحيى بن زيد (125هـ / 742م) 192 الفصل الثالث الثورا...

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Poetry on Bulgarian language with illustrations by the author

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historical novel about the first script of mankind

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Poetry from Kristin Yurukova

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The INJUSTICE is the main problem is the main problem of Romania. The INJUSTICE kills Romania. In these conditions Romania will not be a good member of European Union. Without justice - Romania can not evolve, can not develop, can not raise living standards. Without justice - Romania choke. ...

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After December 1989 the new leaders of Romania were communists: - the President of Romania was Ion Iliescu, who had been an important communist leader during the communist regime. He had been a member of Central Committee of Romanian Communist Party in '70 years; ...

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I grew up in the east end of London during the Great Depression. I witnessed many horrid crimes against humanity but also experienced the courage, dignity, and resilience of those who suffered and struggled all around me, including my own family. We were bombed for 57 nights during the blitz. We, the Cockney's, lived by a code of honor, do as you would be done by. We believed in a fair sense of justice and were victims of social inequality. There were two wars, one for the rich and the other for the poor working class and the poor. There was no middle class in those days. While we were squashed and hungry in filthy metal dugouts in our backyards, the effluent continued their life of luxury in the elite hotels. Some of them even moved in permanently as they were left helpless without their servants. You see their servants had all gone off to war as fodder in the front line, to fight for their country. I and many others survived the incessant bombings, that rained down on us like hailstones from a thundercloud. I am now 94 years old and living in Australia....

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Many generations of East-Enders had passed down a true spirit and love of London; they fought and died for their country when called upon doing so. The docklands played a huge part in the lives of the Cockney’s for many years. I often have memories of myself and my sister when we would take lunch to our Dad, who by then worked at the Docks, every Saturday. There were a lot of Chinese coolies working on the ships. They would do a lot of the menial work; often working as cleaners. Their toilet habits were a bit different from the average ship worker if nature called one would look up to find a bare arse staring back at them and then a gift from heaven without the luck would befall them… this event would be followed by many expletives: “ You rotten bugger, go hang your arse elsewhere!!” My father used to say that: “The bombs were not the only things that made the men working on these ships dash for cover.” ...

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Excerpts from "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" by Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas.

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From: The Che Reader, Ocean Press, 2003.

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Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam is an excellent book detailing the contributions of Vietnamese women fighting for the independencce of their nation. Below is a few selections from the book....

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I was born in Thai Binh province. My family were farmers. In 1948 my father was killed in the French War. My mother was with child when he died and she raised us four children alone. In 1968 I volunteered to be a people's soldier, bo doi, and I spent five years in the field during the most terrible time of the war. Why? Four people in my family died when the Americans bombed the Hanoi suburbs. I was angry and I believed that what men could do, I could do too. Life was hard. In the jungle, we kept the telephone lines open, and at first I was homesick and afraid. But I wanted to avenge my family, to kill Americans for what they did. I survived and when the war was over, my spirits soared. But life was still not easy. My husband is a career military man, who served in the South during the American War and then in Cambodia. He carries a bullet in his body and he is not well after sixteen years in the battlefields. We are lucky because we have two children, a boy and a girl. -Anonymous...

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Born in 1890 in Vietnam under French colonialism to a committed nationalist father, Ho Chi Minh would grow up to lead not one, but two successful wars of independence to liberate his country. In his formative years, Ho traveled widely as a sailor and lived in Paris, Harlem, and Boston, where he worked as a cook, baker, and did menial jobs. In his travels, he made contact with other colonized people, communists and nationalists, and saw the Vietnamese under France as part of an international system of empire. Returning to Vietnam to expel the French colonizers and emancipate his homeland, Ho Chi Minh looked to the United States, once a colony of the British, as a model—the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence is clearly modeled on the United States Declaration—but also as a potential ally. Ho wrote numerous times to American audiences, presidents and the American people, reaching out for support. But American elites, seeing France expelled and wary of independence movements "infecting" their own colonies, decided to punish Vietnam and engaged in a decades long war of almost unthinkable violence. During this time, while Ho Chi...

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Szekler and the Romans: The History of a Misunderstanding, analyzes interethnic relations from the historical perspective, showing that tensions between Hungarians and Romans are rooted in the past, that the past is always reinterpreted to serve political games....

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Prefaţa 2009 .............................................................. 2 Două judeţe cât o ţară ................................................. 7 Istoria unei convieţuiri paşnice ................................... 10 Moştenirea paşoptismului .......................................... 17 Maghiarii la putere ................................................... 22 Regimul minorităţilor în perioada interbelică..............27 Darul stalinismului................................................... 34 Ceauşescu şi secuii ..................................................... 39 1989 în secuime: clişee şi realităţi .............................. 49 Relaţiile etnice în secuime: privind înainte .................. 70 Bruno Ştefan, biografie..............................................77...

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Winter 1928-1929 In Venice.

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The greatest naval battle of all time, the great victory of Veneta, at the Battle of Lepanto.

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This is a challenging title. It does not include a transcription of the Coptic text, but does include Hieroglyphics and Greek.

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The Taoist Classic text.