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...nd their stride, making significant contributions to Canada’s war efforts, and becoming fully engaged in the social, economic, political and cultural life of the country. Canada and the place of women, in all their diversity of origin, race and class, would be transformed by the actions of women and like-minded men. It Was Their War Too, by Pat Staton, is a unique book ...

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...reat War,” the “war to end all wars,” as though such a disaster could or would ever be repeated, focus on the political causes and horrifying loss of life in the bombings and trench warfare. The aftermath is usually described in terms of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and the devastation wrought by the worldwide flu epidemic, which added to the death toll. The contr...

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...eceived excellent reviews: 'From [this book], you will get not only much visual pleasure but a great deal of information about one important side of life during the first 40 years of the antipodean colony.' T.R. Garnett, The Age, Melbourne, February, 1985. 'Finney’s impeccable research also provides fresh and original insight into Australia’s early social and political l...

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...any years from this debilitating disease, which both you and I know robbed him of the quality of life and his will to live. I hope you do not think ... ...cle’s proposition with incredulity. Did he really wish her to marry Gavin, the secret love of her life since childhood? Her heart was fluttering so ... ...e Mission. And as for Rosita, I am confident she will wish to accompany you to India. You are her life!’ Sir Terence paused, his brow puckering slig... ...s as Helen rushed to her and knelt down in front of her chair and as she had done so often in her life, the young woman buried her head in Rosita’s ... ... your stubborn pride, Helen, stand in the way of something I know your heart has wanted all your life. Gavin will fall madly in love with you, whate... ...l only accept,’ teased Helen, ‘if you will promise to come with me to India. I could not envisage life without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you ... ... was rumoured that it was this man who gave the statue to Sir William French in exchange for his life. Chandra Lal had not survived too long after h... ...m pale brown to ebony black, filled her with amazement. As each day passed she realised that her life was changing and that England, that little isl... ...h sided berth and gently covered her with a blanket. ‘I believe I have to thank you for saving my life, John,’ murmured Helen, recalling his gallant...

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...Harriet A. Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself(1 861). First printed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861. Reprinted as Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, ed. L. Maria Child; enlarged ed., ed...

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...Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slave...

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...raveled throughout the Subcontinent, into Afghanistan and North West region of Subcontinent to create awareness for the cause. He eventually lost his life in a battle against Sikh army at Balakot in May 1831. This in-depth inquiry provides insights on Sikh & British alliance established at that time and how British pursued their colonial agenda in India....

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...We see from the life of Sayyid Ahmed that he disrupted the status quo of society at various levels. He was not a passive preacher or a Sufi living in isolation. He not only challenged the oppressors but also the oppressed. For this he faced ...

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...List of illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 Early Life of Sayyid Ahmed and Political Chapter 2 Colonization of India during life of Sayyid Ahmed Chapter 3 Anti-Colonial Struggle of Sayyid Ahmed and Reformation Efforts Conclusion Bibliography ...

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...avowed being guilty of every species of mischief, from the taking away of human life to the spoiling of milk. The names and forms of their imps were... ...husband to know it, I would not for a moment conceal it from you. I never in my life denied a request, but of this I must entreat you to forgive my ... ...at Lord Tyrone is dead: he died last Tuesday, at four o‘clock.‖ ―I never in my life, (said Sir M.) believed you superstitious, but you must have ha... ...noon the clergyman by whom she had been baptised, and with whom she had all her life maintained an intimacy, came into the room to inquire after her... ...orever. ―When I am dead, as the necessity of its concealment closes with my life, I wish that you, my lady, would unbind my wrist, take from hen... ... ghost of the Countess Agnes of Orlamunde, who is alleged to have departed this life after the procrastinating fashion peculiar to the middle ages, ... ...dgment.‖ Pending the incident for which she waited, a Hohenzollern departed this life. Again, some hundred or so of years later, she was seen at the ... ... work now out of print, prescribes the method of preparing the famous ELIXIR OF LIFE. This supposed specific for the renewal and perpetuation of you... ...ge all meaner substances into the regal metal – GOLD. THE FAMOUS ELIXIR OF LIFE. PREPARED FROM BALM. ―In the proper season of the year, w...

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...dards of the German leadership, and much more things. In fact, almost all the defects in the German administration, German politicians, German social life, German economic relationships, lack of quality in military leadership etc. are seen listed out. Beyond that there is also a very clear mention of the existence of a lower intellectual class, that is the workers and m...

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...ion The Death Valley of the Forty-Niners In the Wake of the Forty-Niners 3 Early Settlers Cattle and Crops Longstreet: Legendary Settler 4 Life in the Amargosa Valley in the 1880s A Buckboard Journey Across the Amargosa The Frontier Home of Aaron and Rosie Winters The Discovery of Borax in Death Valley 5 The Railroads Come to the Amargosa Valley Clark Bui...

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...Henry Bibb, Letter to William Gatewood (March 23,1844). In Henry Bibb, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself(New York: Published by the Author, 1850; New York: Greenwood Publishing Company/Negro Universities Press, 1969). pp. 176-76....

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This book explains How the universe was formed. How Life was formed How civilization was formed Why civilization is evil The undead

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-137 How the Universe came into Being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 138-165 Structural Dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 167-224 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 225-262 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 263-30...

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...laws that make employment impossible. It’s not just that Palestinians can’t access PayPal, they can’t access anything. Even leaving the country for a life-saving surgical procedure not available in Palestine, or to attend an Ivy League college on a full scholarship, or just to leave the country to go anywhere, anywhere else, is most often impossible for the people of Gaza ...

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...I. Family Origins II. My Scholarly Visit to Turkistan III. 1916-1918 Political Life IV. Collaboration with the Soviets for fifteen months (1919-1920) v. Talks with Lenin VI. Struggles in Turkistan ...

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...t a revolution to escape such a fate. But the “nationalists,” led by men like Hamilton and centered in New York and New England, also understood that life could be quite grand for those who managed and ruled over an empire. That’s why his party—the Federalists—fought so hard and long for a much more powerful, consolidated, monopolistic government and for mercantilist econo...

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...or. There was no middle class in those days. While we were squashed and hungry in filthy metal dugouts in our backyards, the effluent continued their life of luxury in the elite hotels. Some of them even moved in permanently as they were left helpless without their servants. You see their servants had all gone off to war as fodder in the front line, to fight for their coun...

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...ough floods, fires and explosions to get the coal Britain's industry depended upon. This book based on his unpublished diaries tells the story of his life in his own words, the drama, the tragedy, the lives of rich and poor in a way that makes history come alive....