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Contains information about the Chartist Movement, labor reform, social reform, and emigration to the United States.
Presents a day-by-day chronology of the events of World War I and a biographical dictionary of people involved in the conflict.
The Reeds Western Mediterranean Almanac covers the areas ofSouth and East Spain, the French Mediterranean coast, Northern Italy,the islands of the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, as wellas Tunisia, Morocco and the islands of the French West Indies. It is afull colour essential navigation guide to the Western Mediterraneancontaining detailed chartlets and easy to access navigation and harbourinformation in both English and French. The Almanacincludes international navigation information onlights and buoys, rules and regulations, safety at sea, weather,navigational aids as well as a logbook and a weather glossary inEnglish, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Detailed harbourinformation and port chartlets are provided for over 250 ports.
A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalisedthe hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that of the Church, civil society, or the rhythms of the seasons. Developments in time-keepi...
This book examines France's history, geography, climate, economy, transportation, natural resources, industrial development, and future challenges.
Now you Merely Acknowledge calendric resonances, the anniversary view of histmy, and catalogue them by Alphabetical Priority. -John Barth, Letters The history of medicine is a microcosm for the whole of human history. Its advances parallel progress in science and philosophy, civilization and ethics. Its pageantry mirrors all the triumphs and follies of human history. Osler commented that "the really notable years in the annals of medicine are not very numerous. "l And indeed most calendars and alma nacs record but few medical milestones. The present collection has been made over a period of years. Its method is that of a commonplace book: "What have we to do but to set down this holy man's n...