When was St. Sophia of Kyiv founded and who was its founder? It is written in textbooks that Yaroslav the Wise founded St. Sophia of Kyiv in 1037. But the scholars have refuted this, one would think, truism. It appears that Yaroslav only...
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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence....
Conventional histories of the battles of Mons and Le Cateau describe how, although the British were massively outnumbered, precise and rapid British rifle fire mowed down rows of German troops. The staggering German casualties made these battles...
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The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth...
История, Религиоведение
The Murderous History of Bible Translations: Power, Conflict, and the Quest for Meaning
Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography, recounts the fascinating and bloody history of the Bible.
In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year...
Другие научные, История
The Music of Pythagoras: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path From Antiquity to Outer Space
The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts.
"Pythagoras's influence on the ideas, and therefore on the...
The Mycenaeans 1650-1100...
The Mycenaeans 1650-1100 BC (repaginated for Sony...
Год: 2004
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The Nature of Stalin`s Dictatorship. The Politburo...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People
The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has...