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Du Salon des Refusés au mouvement des Impressionnistes, de jeune peintre désargenté à grand bourgeois tutoyant les huiles, du mari à l'amant... la vie de Claude Monet fut pour le moins plurielle. Chef de file, à son coeur défendant, d'un mouvement qui bouleversa la vision de la peinture au...

‘‘अरे! किसे प्रधानमंत्री नियुक्त किया जाए, इस मुद्दे पर पूरे सचिवालय में बड़ी गंभीरता से बहस हुई, हम भी वहीं पर थे, पहले...

La mort ne choisit pas son camp. 1944, Plages des Sables d’Or, Normandie. Le général Rommel donne les dernières instructions aux membres des forces de l’Axe pour la défense du front normand. Parmi eux, quatre jeunes soldats allemands. De l’autre côté de la Manche, Robert Capa, photographe...

« Trop tard, les Loups attaqués, les vieux Loups fatigués de guerres, partirent au combat. Leurs Louves se réfugièrent au fond des tanières, serrant contre elles leurs Louveteaux... » Comment vit-on lorsqu'on est une femme belge sous l'occupation allemande ? C'est ce que vont apprendre Marcelle...

La completa destrucció de Guernica el 26 d’abril de 1937 va quedar gravada a foc en la consciència europea: era la primera vegada que una ciutat, que estava allunyada del front i no suposava cap amenaça militar, va ser pràcticament arrasada durant un bombardeig. La vila va ser bombardejada i...

Marie Curie is the only woman ever to have received two Nobel prizes: the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work with polonium and radium in 1911. She was also the first woman ever to teach at the Sorbonne. This inspired...

Le procès le plus retentissant du XXe siècle Paris, le 23 juillet 1945. Au beau milieu de l’été, un an après la libération de la capitale par les troupes du Général Leclerc, c’est sous une chaleur harassante que la foule s’agglutine devant les portes du Palais de Justice. Et pour...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum.This book tell  about a girl named Dorothea,her journey began when a cyclone pick her up from Kansas,where she live with her aunt and uncle.She must find Oz the guy who can help her go back to Kansas.In her journey she found her new friends to help her defeat a bad witch.

Chalk Outline These Thoughts Volume 2 More Quotes from behind the wheel I say quotes from behind the wheel because in many if not almost all cases the quotes come to me when I am driving and what that does for a morning commute would explain why I have a hard time arriving anywhere...

As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP, Editorial Director at Simon Pulse and editor of this anthology can expound on the virtues of Batman (her wedding was even Batman-themed)...

The 'ShoeShine Boy' saga chronicles events in the life of a young kid growing up in Boston, Ma. At age ten he's given an opportunity to shine shoes in a shine parlor deep within the mob controlled section of Boston's notorious 'North End'. Unbeknown to him, the shine parlor is a front for...

(Texto completo con indice activo) La llamada de Cthulhu (The Call of Cthulhu en inglés) es un relato corto en estructura de novelette escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en el año 1926. La obra fue publicada por primera vez en febrero de 1928 por la editorial de pulp Weird Tales. Cthulhu hace su primera...

The momentum of Hitler’s Wehrmacht comes to a grinding halt on the Eastern Front when General Von Paulus’s powerful Sixth Army becomes trapped in the city of Stalingrad as the brutal Russian winter begins. The Germans are forced to cease their thrust South, down into the oil fields in the Caucasus...

This highly detailed book describes different methods of punishment used around the world, including domestic violence and punishment used in schools. Fully illustrated this book describes different styles of punishments performed behind closed doors, including the bedroom, and also the darker...