If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see, near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in the valleys below, fragments of building in stone as well as sections of stone-walling breaking the grass cover. Endless stone circles, set in bewildering mazes and linked by long stone passages, cover the landscape stretching from Ohrigstad to Carolina, connecting over 10 000 square kilomet ...
An exploration of the spooky side of Edmonton. Full of ghosts and strange sights, Edmonton is a place rich in the paranormal. Or is it? Are there really spirits that lurk around Fort Edmonton and the provincial legislature? Do ghosts really haunt the halls of the University of Alberta, rushing off to classes that have long finished? Can paranormal echoes of the dark history of Charles Camsell Hospital still be felt within its walls today? What ...
The history you don’t know is the most fascinating of all. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful – real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream exi ...
Как сложилась дальнейшая судьба тех, кого Христос за время Своего земного служения спас от болезней и смерти? Эта повесть – попытка дать ответ на этот вопрос. Сюжет основан на знаменитом Евангельском эпизоде: Он спасает от неминуемой гибели женщину, уличенную в супружеской измене. Осознание происшедшего и медленное, трудное духовное пробуждение даются ей далеко не сразу, а лишь в самом конце ее драматической судьбы.
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Исторический роман рассказывает о судьбах дворян Рубановых, смысл жизни которых – защита России. Стране приходилось в то время часто воевать, и воинский мундир пользовался в обществе огромным уважением. Повествование охватывает первую треть девятнадцатого века. Война с Наполеоном, восстание декабристов… Всё пережили герои книги, через все испытания пронеся любовь к родине. Жизнеописание вымышленных героев переплетается в романе с судьбами реальн ...
The term 'sleeping dictionary' was coined for young Indian women who slept with British men and educated them in the ways of India. Set between 1925 and the end of World War II, The Sleeping Dictionary is the story of Kamala, born to a peasant family in West Bengal, who makes her way to Calcutta of the 1930s. Haunted by a forbidden love, she is caught between the raging independence movement and the British colonial society she finds h ...
In der zweiten Ausgabe mit Reisetagebuchern kommen weitere beruhmte Forscher, Entdecker und Manner von Welt zu Wort. Charles Darwin reist auf der Beagle bis zu den Galapagos-Inseln, Fridtjof Nansen kampft sich durch arktisches Eis, Sir Richard Francis Burton besucht Medina und Mekka, und Harry Graf Kessler skizziert ein Bild der USA Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Sprecher Frank Arnold, Johannes Steck und Gerd Wameling eroffnen neue Perspektiven ...
1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom. In this dramatic history, Simon Hall takes the long view of the year's events-putting them in their post-war context and looking toward their influence on the counterculture movements of the 1960s-to tell the story of the year's epi ...
Steve Gillon follows Lee Harvey Oswald for the 48 hours after the Kennedy assassination in search of answers to the question that has been troubling America for the past five decades: Why did he shoot JFK? The Warren Commission speculated that Oswald was simply a deranged sociopath. But recently declassified materials raise new troubling questions. Where was Oswald going when he fled the School Book Depository Building on Friday afternoon? Is it ...
