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ERASE THE TABLET is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full. It is presented as the letter-book and late dictation of Antonia Caenis, freedwoman and secretary, who really lived, who really was kept by the emperor Vespasian in the place of an almost lawful wife, and whose freedman really did set up a stone to her. The documents do not exist. Everything else here is invention. Nineteen episodes, read by two voices. The second book of the sequence that began with AUGUSTA: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com.

The Korean War, often referred to as "The Forgotten War," has been overshadowed in the historical consciousness by the global conflicts that preceded it and the controversial conflicts that followed. Yet, its significance in shaping the geopolitical landscape of the 20th century cannot be overstated. This war was the first armed clash of the Cold War era, a brutal conflict that drew in more than 20 nations, introduced new technologies in warfare, and left a divided peninsula that remains a flashpoint of tension to this day.

Dette er historien om, hvad der skete i Rosenslet og omegn under Danmarks besættelse. Sagen er den, at lægefamilien Bøjstrup var særdeles aktive sammen med mange andre af byens og omegnens borgere, men i særdeleshed gjorde spejderne i Rosenslet også en kæmpe forskel i dette arbejde...

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages. 

Greed and corruption, bribery and fraud, insiders getting fabulously rich while workers get robbed. Sound familiar? That was the great battle for Butte, Montana, at the dawn of the 20th century when it was the richest hill on earth. Copper was the treasure, eagerly sought for wiring the modern...

At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. 

In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback". Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days.

Come with me into a world of untrodden valleys, haunted roads, distant cities, ancient temples, and lives governed by passions no less mysterious than the past itself.The Amelia B. Edwards Library presents the works of the remarkable Victorian novelist, traveller, Egyptologist, and teller of ghost stories, read in full. From the shadowy suspense of her supernatural tales to her journeys along the Nile and through the mountains of Europe, these are books written with curiosity, wit, courage, and an inexhaustible appetite for discovery.Open the first page, and the journey begins.

As we move through life our mind guides our every step. Sometimes we get far off track. "Out of a clean heart comes a clean life", says James Allen. "Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body." Most people try to achieve a high worldly position without giving attention to their inner spiritual life. James Allen writes about what he learned during his own successful search for answers in this fascinating journey into truth. 

AUGUSTA is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full. It is presented as the recovered private commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. The manuscript does not exist. Tacitus really did read her memoirs, and really did cite them once, and they really are lost. Everything else here is invention.Twenty-seven episodes. A new one each week. Series guide, maps, and family tree available for free download at pbmills.com.

The making of Augustus: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero — which Tacitus read, cited once, and which vanished for nineteen centuries. Discover more at pbmills.com.

In this biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social injustice. In absorbing detail, Jackson explores Chester Himes's middle-class origins, eight years in prison, painful odyssey as a Black World War II-era artist, and escape to Europe, where Himes became internationally famous for his Harlem detective series.

Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—the New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine's tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances.

In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’ ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’ work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, Morris, a major scholar of social movements, probes the way in which the history of the discipline has traditionally given credit to Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago, who worked with the conservative Black leader Booker T. Washington to render Du Bois invisible.

On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana: W.E.B. DuBois. In this new biography, Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the Twentieth Century through Du Bois’s revolutionary life.

John B. Denton was an orphan in frontier Arkansas who became a circuit-riding Methodist preacher and an important member of a movement of early settlers bringing civilization to North Texas. He was a participant in the first missionary effort to bring Methodism to Texas, answering a call from William B. Travis to bring Methodists to the new republic

It’s been said that the past is another country. Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday takes readers into several such countries. This book has been called the most famous work about the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary (which Zweig calls “the world of security”) in the last decades before its collapse in the First World War.

J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman. James Ewell Brown Stuart led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry to the all-but-complete satisfaction of his superiors. Being human, Stuart occasionally underperformed.

There is much of human history which we don’t know due to lost records, the oceans covering our ancestor’s cities, natural disasters, and reasons we don’t know. There are also many anomalies which have been found showing ruins and objects from the far past which should not exist.

A louca e tragicômica história dos nossos vizinhos contada no estilo único do jornalista Ariel Palacios. Com sua verve inconfundível e seu talento notável para a reportagem que se tornaram famosos na TV e no rádio, Ariel Palacios, correspondente da GloboNews e apresentador da CBN, monta um rico e divertidíssimo mosaico dos países que compõem a América Latina, reunindo toda a gama de absurdos, abusos, loucuras e atos nonsense protagonizados por monarcas, ditadores, presidentes e até mesmo líderes religiosos com alguns (ou muitos) parafusos a menos.