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Blacks and Science Volume Two: West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology AND Intellectual Life and Legacy of TimbuktuBlacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script o Timbuktu astronomers used the cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant functions of trigonometry o...
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From Plassey to Pakistan: The Family History of Iskander Mirza, the First President of PakistanIn this sweeping historical survey, Humayan Mirza traces the fortunes of his ancestors, the powerful rulers of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa. Turning next to the colonial experience India under British rule, Mirza describes the long struggle for independence that ultimately led to the partition...
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The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' from the Book-BurnersDiana West and a host of others - including illustrious authors M. Stanton Evans and Vladimir Bukovsky - defend her new book, "American Betrayal," against a wave of calumnious charges and vicious personal attacks.Author: Diana WestPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/02/2013Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Creek (Muskogee)*Includes pictures of important people and places. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Creek. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "The Muscogee was once a mighty people. The Georgians trembled at your war-whoop, and the maidens of my tribe, on...
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The Smile of the StrangerThe Paget family's adventures begin in this Gothic Regency period romance reissue from legendary author Joan AikenWhen danger forces expatriate English gentlewoman Juliana Paget to flee her home in Italy, she embarks on a journey full of thrilling adventure. Nothing could have prepared her...
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The Magician's LieA USA TODAY BESTSELLER!This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney...or a top hat.--Oprah.comMaster of historical fiction Greer Macallister weaves the tale of a notorious female...
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This Country of Ours: A Classic United States History Book"This Country of Ours: A Classic United States History Book" is a well-known children's history book of the United States by the best-selling British author, Henrietta Marshall. This classic book tells the story of America from the start of the settlements to 1912, ending...
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The Berlin Wall: An Interactive Modern History AdventureAfter World War II Germany splits into two countries the Communist German Democratic Republic in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. Its capital of Berlin is divided as well, but many people are leaving East Berlin for the freedom...
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Co. AytchOf the 120 men who enlisted in "Company H" (Or Co. Aytch as he calls it) in 1861, Sam Watkins was one of only seven alive when General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman in North Carolina on...
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100 Year Old Recipes: A 1907 Church Cookbook With Over 425 Historic RecipesOne of the neighborhood grandmothers used to tell my mother: "If Bobby wants to eat chocolate cake for breakfast...let him eat the cake...it has all the things that are good for him...eggs, flour, butter, milk, and chocolate " Not exactly the advice of today,...
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The Gold Family History: Eleven Generations from Moravia to PennsylvaniaThe Gold Family History: Eleven Generations from Moravia to Pennsylvania With the initial question of, "How did a large group of ethnic Germans come to live among the Slavic Czechs in Moravia?" The Gold Family history is traced back to the 1600's and chronicles...
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The Road to PowerFriends and enemies of the Socialists agree upon one thing, and that is that they constitute a revolutionary party. But unfortunately the idea of revolution is many-sided, and consequently the conceptions of the revolutionary character of our party differ very greatly. Not a few...
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A History of Greene County ArkansasThis work provides a basic foundation and fundamental source for beginning your genealogical research into Greene County, Arkansas. The author's approach is similar to many 20th Century authors addressing such topics as the early settlers, early history, early modes of transportation, education and schools,...
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Blacks and Science Volume One: Ancient Egyptian Contributions to Science and Technology AND The Mysterious Sciences of the Great PyramidInformation on Black scientists and inventors is becoming more readily available to the general public and this is a welcome development. However, information specifically on the scientific and technological contributions of the Ancient Egyptians is not as readily available as one might think. Great...
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Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe: Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836-1842In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern...
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El impostor: Evo Morales, de la Pachamama al Narco-EstadoDesde la llegada de Evo Morales al poder gubernamental de Bolivia, el trajinado pa s altiplanico se constituy progresivamente en el coraz n continental del "Socialismo del Siglo XXI", construcci n de poder que vino acompanada de un frondoso marketing pretendidamente precolombino. Qu hay...
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Forty-Four SermonsJohn Wesley's Forty-Four Sermons 1.Salvation by Faith 2.The Almost Christian 3.Awake, Thou That Sleepest 4.Scriptural Christianity 5.Justification By Faith 6.The Righteousness of Faith 7.The Way to the Kingdom 8.The First-Fruits of the Spirit 9.The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption 10.The Witness of the...
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Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil WarAmid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and songs to call them to bed, Songs to ready them for battle and to signal their retreat, Songs...
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The Louisiana Purchase: From Independence to Lewis and ClarkWhen the United States won its independence from Great Britain, it also won new lands. Soon, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the country's size. These new lands had to be explored and settled. Brave explorers, such as Lewis and Clark, soon blazed a trail to...
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Mangy Mummies, Menacing Pharaohs, and the Awful Afterlife: A Moth-Eaten History of the Extraordinary Egyptians!From feast days of gods and goddesses to victory celebrations, the ancient Egyptians looked for any excuse to throw a party. However, the largest social group included slaves, laborers, and peasants who worked really hard and likely didn't get to enjoy these occasions as...
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