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#1 The British government was responsible for the state of Ireland, and it was their mismanagement that produced the terrible conditions there. The mere fact that Ireland was so miserable was a complete and irrefutable proof of the mismanagement to which she had been subjected.
#2 The Famine killed millions of people in Ireland, and it was also the cause of emigration....
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This book traces the history of English law and government for fourteen centuries, from the withdrawal of Roman Legions from Britannia to separation of Englands New World colonies and the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The governments of the United States and Great Britain, although separate now for over two centuries, share a deep common heritage. The starting point for American legal history goes back to the roots of English...
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#1 The hotel the Campbell sisters stayed at was a Mina sort of place. It was Victorian-brothel-meets-20s-speakeasy, and it had a cosy bar with a warm, cocoon-like welcome. Hannah enjoyed the attention from the staff.
#2 Hannah was in the middle of a sabbatical when she decided to come to Ireland and take cooking classes. She had never been out of the work force, and...
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Der außergewöhnliche Stadtführer für einen besonderen Tag in Sevilla!
Der Geist von Carmen, jenem berühmten Zigeunermädchen, wandelt noch immer durch die verwinkelten Gassen von Sevilla. 170 Jahre nachdem sie dort gelebt und geliebt hat, schickt sie sich nun endlich an, ihre Geschichte einmal selbst zu erzählen!
„Mit Carmen durch Sevilla" erleben wir diese Stadt wie noch nie. Carmen nimmt uns mit in die südspanische Metropole und zeigt...
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#1 The town of St. Andrews, Scotland, owes its origins to a divine mission. In the ninth century, a Scottish king looked up and saw St. Andrew's diagonal cross in the sky above, and took it as a sign to march outnumbered against the Angles.
#2 I was wondering which one was supposed to move first: the ball or the club. Something terrifying and miraculous can happen over...
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Man traut sich kaum, es zu schreiben: Dass es im Herzen Europas, an der Ostsee, drei Länder gibt, die noch nicht überlaufen sind. Wo man mit dem Camper unter Kiefern am Meer stehen und über dem Lagerfeuer kochen kann – ganz legal, versteht sich. Wo jeder Reisende seinen eigenen Lieblingssee zum Paddeln finden kann. Wo kreativ gestaltete Museen auf Besucher und herzhafte Nationalgerichte auf Testesser warten. Wo die Wälder voller Pilze und Beeren...
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#1 When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, feverish diplomatic efforts were engaged to obviate the treaty obligations that would force Britain and France to come to her defense. The French had increased their already large army to about 2. 5 million men. They pushed past their own Maginot Line in eastern France and moved cautiously a few kilometers into Germany,...
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In Brüssel spielt in jeder Hinsicht die Musik. Ein Schmelztiegel der Nationen, eine multikulturelle Stadt mit bewegter Geschichte. Voller Widersprüche und Reibungspunkte. Sie ist Europas politische Zentrale. Sie ist mittelalterlich geprägt und eine Metropole des Jugendstils. Sie ist Welthauptstadt des Comics, Zentrum einzigartiger Chocolaterien und berühmt für die besten Pommes. Brüssel steht für extravagante Restaurants und unglaubliche Bars...
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#1 Traveling is a way to relieve sadness. New surroundings prompt forgetfulness of old ones, and thus speed up the passage of time.
#2 The city was silent, and it was clear that the people were suffering. The bread and fuel lines began, and people were nervous and shy. They seemed as if they had never seen the sunlight.
#3 I had gone to Bucharest to interview the Romanian...
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Book Preview: #1 I wanted to see the Northern Lights, and I had long harbored a half-formed desire to live what life was like in a remote and forbidding place. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush of Oslo, I was beginning to have my doubts.
#2 In 1972, I went to Europe for the first time. I flew from New York to Luxembourg, with a refuelling stop en route...
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#1 The past is a collection of fragments that cannot be pieced together to form a coherent sequence. But through the accumulation of these fragments, it is now possible to furnish the set on which the lost drama was performed.
#2 The First Kingdom is a chronicle of how Anglo-Saxon kings were chosen by God to bring about a single, universal church and people. It is difficult...
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#1 Death was never far from the mind of Colonel Rudolph-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, as he was constantly on the run from the Gestapo. He had tried to kill Hitler on March 21, 1943, and was now en route to a meeting at Army Group B Headquarters.
#2 Colonel Rudolph von Gersdorff was a conspirator against Hitler. He was born in 1905 in the town of Lubin, Silesia....
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#1 I have been mudlarking for years, searching for treasure in the Thames near London Bridge. I am obsessed with the river's ebb and flow, and I know where the river allows me access early and where I can stay for the longest time before I am gently but firmly shooed away.
#2 I have been studying the tide tables for so long that they have become second nature. I never...
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#1 On May 9, 1940, Hitler had a meeting at his headquarters in Berlin to discuss the upcoming campaign against France and Britain. The meeting was supposed to last a month but did not last a day longer.
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#1 The Middle East is a powder keg. It has been the scene of repeated belligerent encounters since men learned to bear arms. The first battle of recorded time took place in what is now Israel in 1469 BC.
#2 The Battle of El Alamein was not like the other battles in the desert war. It was a battle of deliberate attrition, conducted in a way that a veteran of World...
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Conozca los antecedentes históricos y el desarrollo de todos los conflictos que surgieron en la república socialista de Yugoslavia a partir de 1991, así como sus consecuencias y la situación actual de los distintos países nacidos tras su disolución: Eslovenia, Croacia, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro y Macedonia.
Gracias a Breve historia de las guerras de los Balcanes se acercará a unos conflictos, extremadamente crueles, que se caracterizaron...
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The Beginning of Futility and Futility ending in Disaster discussed Italy's joining the allies and going on the offensive against Austria-Hungary. With Berlin's assistance deep penetrations were made into Italian territory resulting in allied troops coming to Italy's assistance while secret negotiations for a separate peace with Vienna between U.S. President Wilson and England's Prime Minister Lloyd George failed. A repeat Habsburg offensive was halted...
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#1 The Scottish Reformation was the work of one man, John Knox, and he was able to turn the Scots into God's chosen people and turn Scotland into the New Jerusalem. He imposed the Calvinist Sabbath on Scottish society, and banned all traditional forms of collective fun.
#2 The Kirk, which was the main church in Scotland, turned its back on secular values and embraced God alone. It...
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Book Preview: #1 Elizabeth's birth was greeted with indifference by the unruly Protestant population of Scotland. The Scottish aristocracy was hopelessly, almost comically fractured by geography, ancestry, religion, and politics.
#2 The infant Elizabeth was sent to Linlithgow Palace, about fifteen miles west of Edinburgh, to be raised by guardians. She had a governess and two...
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