History

The 72nd Seaforth Highlanders were a group of Scots-Canadians, often referred to as the Ladies from Hell," known for their Mackenzie tartan kilts, their bayonets, their bagpipes and the action they saw while stationed in France where most of the Great...

In Volume One of this series, ISIS Wants To Kill You, we took a brief look at the root causes of ISIS: first and foremost, the anger that had built up among many Middle Eastern Muslims after 100 years of almost non-stop humiliation at the hands of the...

Facing a Nazi firing squad Willem Arondeus shouted out, ''Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!'' That is the aim of my work, to celebrate the lives of heroic homosexuals, of whom it is my conviction that Jack Nicholson, the hero of the...

Volume One of this series, ISIS Wants To Kill You, took a brief look at the root causes of ISIS. In Volume Two, ISIS Wants Your Head, we endeavored to get inside the mind of ISIS. In this third volume of our series, we examine the workings of the "body"...

The focus of this essay is to provide an analysis of the effect of social media on the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt in 2011. What has now been coined the "Arab Spring" began with protests in Tunisia in late 2010. It then quickly spread to countries...

This fourth volume of our series about terrorism, examines the Islamic State's seven closest and most dangerous rivals, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Quds Force and Al-Nusra Front, and explains how they relate both to each other and...

A story of the Bagirmi kings of Chad, from their origins to the arrival of French colonialists, told from memory by an elder in the capital of the Bagirmi kingdom, Massenya.Author: Koussou OumarPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Prussia joined in a Guarantee of Belgian Neutrality. The neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1839 to which France, Prussia and Great Britain were parties. Recent German Assurances. In 1913 the German Secretary of State, at a...

X-Ajawil Motul, Sija'an Ti' Ka'an Xunan, u mek'ma juntul champal yok'ol u ka'analil jump'el nojoch k'u. Tu pache' u k'ank'anil k'in tu tal yok'ol u nak' ka'anil lu'um jayakbal kabaj. Yetel noj yaaxkumile' yaanal u piix ichil tu lakal u yiikleel le u...

Reina de Mutul, Dama Nacida del Cielo, sujeta a un beb? entre sus brazos en la cumbre de una gran pir?mide. Detr?s de ella el sol anaranjado toca sobre el horizonte de una tierra que se extiende debajo. Con gran anticipaci?n y bajo la vigilia de todos...

The years before Henry Tudor became King Henry VII of England were dark. A fugitive and in constant danger he had to survive long enough to gain support. My book is a telling of these years and just how he achieved the impossible.Author: Aled...

O ritual do casamento e do namoro no s?culo XIX ? descrito ao pormenor neste ensaio. A autora j? publicou v?rios outros livros em torno destas tem?ticas.Author: Cecilia BarreiraPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: May...

Qui?n dijo que la historia debe ser aburrida, dif?cil y estirada? Qui?n nos ha dicho que la historia est? hecha s?lo de fechas y nombres? Este es un libro en el que se presenta la historia de China, Egipto, Grecia y Roma a trav?s de un sinf?n de...

O Terceiro Segredo: A den?ncia da fraude do Vaticano! E a verdade reveladaBy Mr Iain Francis ColquhounAuthor: Iain Francis ColquhounPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 17, 2013Number of Pages: 78 pagesBinding:...

The Pike was a street a mile long, solidly lined with amusements, some varied, more elaborate and more costly than any previous expositions had ever contained. When nighttime came, everyone on the grounds took a stroll down the Pike to see the life in...

Every firefighter has a treasure trove of interesting stories to tell and the stories more often than not are instructional as well as exciting. When I was a firefighter, I kept notes of the fires I responded to. Now that I am retired, I have reflected...

Pilgrim's Path To Freedom - (Render Tribute Due Vol. 5) is the conclusion to a five part series from med-evil 1200 A.D. to William Penn and the Quakers. Pearl L. Sturgis has searched and researched the historiography of the great men of the mid centuries...

French influence in America was a great help to all American people; they were able to love a people that had had never known such gentility from a foreign power; their help to the U.S. during the American Revolution is legendary. We examine the sense of...

The world loves a rogue, and there is no better example than Alcibiades. He was all things to those who crossed his path: intelligent, courageous, ambitious, eloquent in speech, charm personified, so handsome that it's the first adjective employed by...

This mini-book is a chapter from my forthcoming book Enlightenment 101: A Guide to God-Realization and Higher Human Culture. The book looks at the experience of enlightenment for the individual and the race. This chapter was begun in dialogue with an...

Polish language version of Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims. Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, more than five million were not Jewish. Who...

I was born in Siberia in the Cheremshan village of Krasnoyarsk Region. In the early 90s I came to Moscow. I started working on the market and got a technical position at the big computer company later. I bought the personal computer. The era of the...

Life of James Mars, A Slave born and sold in Connecticut.: Written by HimselfAuthor: James MarsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Mar 31, 2014Number of Pages: 56 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

" Il est aussi facile de r?ver un livre qu'il est difficile de le faire. " Honor? de Balzac " Un train et des lions" une epop?e africaine Pour contr?ler la route des Indes, il faut contr?ler l'Egypte. Pour contr?ler l'Egypte, il faut contr?ler le Nil...

The Lincolnshire Chronicles, an ancient manuscript found under the flagstone of a church tells, among other things, the story of an old hermit lady who lived about two thousand years ago. Her views on life's wonders, without the confines of superstition...

Designed for a student either revising or needing a brief set of notes on the period.Author: Peter KeatingPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 25, 2014Number of Pages: 46 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Mary Ann Sarah Jane Levinna Ellen McBride, called Molly, was passed from the care of one aunt to the next growing up in the late 1800's American South. In the households of the several aunts she was named after, she cooked, cleaned, farmed and helped...

*Large Print Edition* - Mary Ann Sarah Jane Levinna Ellen McBride, called Molly, was passed from the care of one aunt to the next growing up in the late 1800's American South. In the households of the several aunts she was named after, she cooked,...

This guide is intended as a brief introduction for students studying the Cold War at High School; as well as those needing a very brief overview of the subject.Author: Aurelia CetinnPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:...

This book has been over 150 years in the making; from actual experiences of a nine year old girl and a confederate soldier during the Civil War in 1862 - 1865 as told to and documented by Jennie Kelly Muse until the publication of this book, 2014, from...