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Facts vs Fiction Before and Since Cajunization
- English
- 29965 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 1673
For the last four decades, Louisiana has promoted its 500 year old French Colonial Creole culture as "Cajun" implying that this culture had its origin in Acadian Canada. Nothing could be farthest from the truth! During the racially turbulent 1960's Jim Crow era when black A... Read more...
Keywords: Cajun, Louisiana Creole people, food, language, culture
€9.99
Complete Works
- English
- 294310 Words
- Ages 6 and up
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The Wars of Julius Caesar: Complete Works.
He is often considered the greatest man in history. He invented strategy and changed the shape of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's legacy survives not only in his conquests and buildings, but in his books as well.
"The Wars of ... Read more...
Keywords: Wars of Julius Caesar, Complete, Caesar, Julius Caesar, History, W.S. Bohn, W.A. McDevitte, Translated Books, Alexandrian War, African War, Gaulish Society, Tribes, Celtic Wars, Civil Wars, Aulus Hirtius, Gallic Wars, English, Latin, Spanish War [more]
$1.99
- English
- 2380 Words
- Ages 12 and up
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In this historical story, the author allows his faithful readers a hot insight into the darkness of a medieval village. Apart from her name, sixteen-years-old Demine Ravenheart lives a normal and average life, however, one day during a hairdresser’s visit, she overhears a ... Read more...
Keywords: witch hunt, burning, travel, mind, dream, nightmare, medieval, historic, forest, fairytale, witch, church
$0.99
Historical Shortstories from Westphalia
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- 5195 Words
- Ages 12 and up
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Pursuit of witches and wizards in Menden/Westfalian around 1628
A historically guaranteed Story about the pursuit of witches and wizard in the cure cologne town Menden in the year 1628 in particular of the two citizens Franz Hellmich, called the lame and Blasius Billi, ca... Read more...
Keywords: Westphalians, short stories, historical murder, brandy, denunciation, lay assessor, Taxion, Albus, Wasenmeister, inquisition, indications', Spanish Boots, Sankt Michael, Witfrau, Urgicht, Friedrich of Spee, murder, hexene, Vehme, feuds, war, Emperor Charles V [more]
€1.99
And Why You Should Be Like Them
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- 47655 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 781
History has shown us that leadership can come from anywhere, from anyone. Some of the most recognizable names in history–Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi–came from nothing. Some other recognizable names–Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alexander the Great–came from great privilege... Read more...
Keywords: History, Leaders, Greatest, Lincoln, Mandela, King
$2.99
- English
- 94041 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 661
Cause of delay in equipment—Fittings of the 'Fox'—Volunteers for Arctic service—Assistance from public departments—Reflections upon the undertaking—Instructions and departure—Orkneys and Greenland—Fine Arctic scenery—Danish establishments in Greenland—Frederickshaab, in Dav... Read more...
$1.99
- English
- 75343 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 633
A Company of Tanks written by by W. H. L. Watson. This book was published in 1920. This book has 18 chapters. The village of Locon lies five miles out from Bethune, on the Estaires road. Now it is broken by the war: in October 1916 it was as comfortable and quiet a villa... Read more...
Keywords: A Company of Tanks, W. H. L. Watson
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Annotated and Illustrated in Two Complete Volumes
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- 287515 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 573
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The Medici: Annotated and Illustrated in Two Complete Volumes by George Frederick Young.
The Secrecy, the conspirators, the Rise and Fall of the House of the Medici.
In this exquisitely written book, you get the history of thirteen generations of a family who brought We... Read more...
Keywords: Medici, Cardinal, Nemours, Francesco, Ferdinando, Ricci, History, Piero, Cosimo, Italy, Renaissance, Lorenzo, Giovanni, Giuliano, Duke, House of Medici, Art, Learning, Europe, Florence, George Frederick Young, Illustrated [more]
$2.99
- English
- 137969 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 562
Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer’s Impressions of Many Lands written by Samuel Murray. Published in 1918. And now republish in ePub version. Introduction I was early aboard the fastest ship that ever foamed the seas. Later, a long, strong whistle blast blew—the sig... Read more...
Keywords: Seven Legs Across the Seas, A Printer’s Impressions of Many Lands, Samuel Murray
$3.99
- English
- 75536 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 517
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The Gods Will Have Blood a novel by Anatole France. It is a fictional story set during the French Revolution. The story of the infernal rise of Évariste Gamelin, a young Parisian painter, involved in the section for his neighborhood of Pont-Neuf, it describes the dark year... Read more...
Keywords: the gods will have blood, the gods are athirst, human sacrifice, anatole france, historical fiction, revolutionary novel, the french revolution, idealism and insanity, the reigh of terror, modern political literature, politics and history
$2.99