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Extrait: "L'Asie-Mineure désignée aussi sous le nom d'Anatolie, qui en réalité en est une province, est baignée, au nord par la mer Noire et la mer de Marmara, à l'est et au sud par la Méditerranée. Elle présente du cté de l'Europe une façade très fantaisiste avec une dentelure capricieuse de ctes pittoresques, offrant des baies, parfois très profondes comme celles de Smyrne et de Kos, plus largement ouvertes comme le golfe d'Adalia..."...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended, the Allied Powers carved up defeated Germany into four blocks. They did...
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NOAH (Indra) Nuh in Islam, a prophet, same as the Indian Manu, the Law giver
The Civilisation at the Time of Noah had achieved a very high standard of living and is nowadays known as ATLANTIS, that world that Atlas carried on his Back. At that time a Comet Fell onto the Earth and caused a Polar Shifting.
People of Noah had become BIG Sinners, God ordered him to build an ARK and to take his family, his followers, and two or three pairs of Every kind...
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En una noche despejada y clara, la bóveda celeste parece un tapiz inmóvil. Pero si lo observas con los ojos de la astrofísica, verás que el universo no sólo está en expansión sino que, gracias a la gravedad, forma algo parecido a las cuencas hidrográficas que le dan forma al paisaje. A semejanza de los intrépidos exploradores que navegaron mares y océanos para cartografiar la Tierra, Hélène Courtois se ha dedicado a trazar mapas dinámicos...
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These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library of Congress collection and the Massachusetts maps, informative captions about the...
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Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so much more; mysterious, unpredictable, and known by mariners for its sudden violent weather and dangerous shoals, Lake Erie has been the stage for some of the most dramatic events ever to occur on the North American continent. From the earliest explorations of First Nations and French adventurers to the brazen...
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Eighty years since the last major, single-authored regional geography of Great Britain was published, the country's landscape is now very different from what it was in the middle of last century. Public interest in it, however, is as great as it was then. Television offers programmes about its coasts, hills and cities, government frets about it, and ecologists worry about what we have done to it. Students of urban design and landscape appreciation...
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1 atlas (224 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
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From Ireland to Italy, Portugal to Poland, Germany to Greece, and everywhere in between, explore your ancestors' European homelands through more than 200 gorgeous reproductions of 18th-century maps, 19th-century and early 20th-century maps. These full-color period maps--covering the peak years of European immigration to America--will help you understand changing boundaries in ancestral countries, and inform your search for genealogical records.
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Without the Thames, there would be no London or England. From earliest times, the city's needs, whether for stone, gold, or coal, for hay to feed livestock or food, wine and spices for human beings-were supplied from the river, as the fierce tides brought ships upstream or carried them down again. Only with the age of trunk road and rail did London's global importance as a port diminish. Even after that, the tides continued to drive the great power...
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La betterave rouge fut importée de l'Italie dans l'Europe du nord vers la fin du XVIe siècle, et cultivée dans les jardins comme plante alimentaire pour l'homme. C'est en Allemagne que cette culture prit d'abord de grandes proportions; elle ne se développa en France que beaucoup plus tard. Une variété productive, mais très aqueuse, de la betterave, la disette, avait été introduite dans notre pays en 1775 par Vilmorin. On en faisait usage...
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Tout voyageur descendant ou remontant la vallée du Rhne remarque entre Orange et Avignon une grande montagne qui s'élève majestueusement au-dessus de la fertile plaine arrosée par la fontaine de Vaucluse. C'est le Mont-Ventoux (Mons Ventosus). Sa forme pyramidale, sa large base, son sommet triangulaire, blanchi par la neige pendant l'hiver, charment les yeux de l'artiste et arrêtent surtout l'attention du géologue, qui devine là un riche terrain...
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Written by one of the world's preeminent experts on Southeast Asia, this easy-to-read guidebook offers a lively chronicle of a tantalizing part of the world that has undergone dramatic changes during its long and colorful history. Extensively illustrated with photographs and diagrams, it also includes brief histories and maps of all Southeast Asian nations, long marked by profound cultural, geographical, and political diversity. From the grandeur...
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From icy polar tundra to lush tropical rainforests, readers can explore the wonders of the planet we call home in this spectacular visual guide.
This beautiful jacketed hardcover introduces the many landscapes and systems that make up Planet Earth, from its molten core and plate tectonics to the different landscapes, which make up its surface. Readers can explore the Amazon basin, taiga forests across the frozen wastes of Siberia and vast deserts...
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Extrait: "Le témoignage des auteurs les plus anciens ainsi que les recherches scientifiques des temps modernes témoignent de l'existence d'un ancien continent qui aurait occupé la place de l'Atlantide disparue. Avant de poursuivre l'étude de la question elle-même, on se propose de jeter un coup d'œil rapide sur les sources généralement connues et qui fournissent à ce sujet des preuves corroborantes."
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Vivimos en un planeta, pero no en un planeta cualquiera. Y es la toma de conciencia de esa condición especialísima de la Tierra la que nos invita a plantearnos, no por qué los otros planetas son diferentes al nuestro, sino por qué la Tierra es asombrosamente distinta.
Con estilo claro y sencillo, a la vez que con rigor y precisión cuando son necesarios, el autor dialoga y comparte con el lector esa sensación de extrañeza que le ha producido...
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En la actualidad presenciamos un cambio profundo en las concepciones del territorio, las fronteras y los límites, nociones que fueron construidas a finales del siglo XIX y fortalecidas durante la mayor parte del siglo XX. Sin embargo, cabe preguntar ¿tales cambios conducen invariablemente a la desaparición futura de las fronteras y los límites territoriales?, o, por el contrario, ¿acaso se trata de la continuación de un mismo proceso histórico...
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Discover Ancient Rome™ understanding people in the past can be fun, learning about ancient ™ is interesting and enjoyable. Some kings like Lucius were not very popular and sometimes cruel to people.
They became very powerful and conquered other lands. They had patricians who were rich nobles and owner a lot of land. The plebeians were servants, tradesmen and generally had smaller farms. Enjoy learning and do not forget it is about having fun....
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In the nineteenth century the 'America Ground' played a key role in the expansion of Hastings. Appearing to to be lie outside the town boundary, residents and businesses there had no taxes to pay. The freedom from local authority rules created a libertarian atmosphere, and one of the names the Ground acquired was 'America', after the newly independent state across the Atlantic. However, the Ground's almost-lawless autonomy meant there was repeated...
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Part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memoir, a beautiful book that will appeal to bird lovers, readers of literature, and art lovers. As an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, art historian and author, has spent many years observing birds. Here is the story of her passion, a personal, wide-ranging, and intimate book that will appeal to all those who love nature, literature, and art. What...
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C'est dans la famille des camellias que les botanistes rangent la plante originaire de la Chine appelée tcha dans le Céleste-Empire, tsjaa au Japon, tea en Angleterre, et thé en France.
Trois plantes exotiques fournissent la base des principales boissons alimentaires et aromatiques introduites aujourd'hui dans le régime habituel des nations. Depuis l'époque o l'usage de ces boissons s'est établi, toutes n'ont pas rencontré une faveur égale....
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