A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L Bird (1831 — 1904) represents a series of the author’s letters to her sister, written during her journey to Colorado. In a six-month period of time she covered over a thousand miles alone,...
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In the second book of the Nicholas Ramage series Lieutenant Lord Ramage is ordered to proceed to Gibraltar-with all possible dispatch - aboard His Majesty's ship Kathleen, to support Nelson in a battle with the Spanish off Cape...
Автор: Хэндлер Дэниел
Серия: A Series of Unfortunate Events #10
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
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The Slippery...
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With the huge success of John Wayne’s The Searchers, it’s no surprise that when John Huston, one of the greatest directors of all time, was looking for a Western project, he turned to another novel by Alan LeMay and was able to assemble an...
On March 11, 2011, the Japanese fishing trawler, Hoshi Maru accidentally hauled up something deadly into its live-fish hold. The crew, having discovered their mistake, raced toward the harbor in the hope that they might survive. They never made it.
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Автор: Хэндлер Дэниел
Серия: A Series of Unfortunate Events #9
Язык: английский
Год: 2002
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The Carnivorous...
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western...
The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was one of history's great turning points - the first time the Greeks managed to defeat the Persians in a pitched battle, it enabled the rise of classical Greek civilization. As John Stuart Mill famously put it,...