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September 28, 2023

Pharsalus 48 BC Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans

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Free Download Adam Hook, "Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans"
English | 2006 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1846030021 | PDF | 38,7 mb
Increasing tension between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) after the death of Marcus Licinius Crassus soon degenerated into military conflict. With his hand considerably strengthened by his election as Dictator by the Senate in Rome, Caesar knew that power would only be a reality once he had militarily defeated Pompey. By August 49BC, Caesar had effectively destroyed Pompey’s armies in Spain, but, by the time he had crossed the Adriatic pursuing him eastward, his forces were heavily outnumbered. Even with the reinforcements brought by Mark Antony, his attempt to crush Pompey by laying siege to Dyrrachium was unsuccessful and he eventually had to withdrew into Thessaly, with Pompey in pursuit.

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September 16, 2023

Clash of the Titans How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires That [Audiobook]

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Free Download Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires That Control What We Read and Watch (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFX71RW5 | 2023 | 14 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 424 MB
Author: Richard Hack
Narrator: Dan Cashman
A dual biography of two media titans-Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner. When Ted Turner started out in business, he owned a small billboard company in rural Georgia. Over the decades, he built a multi-billion empire that included CNN, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), MGM studios, and the Atlanta Braves. Risk-taking, careful planning, and steely determination are the hallmarks of this brash, outspoken, and wildly successful media mogul. On the other side of the world, his counterpart-Australian-born Rupert Murdoch-began with one small newspaper and parlayed it into more than 100 newspapers and magazines around the globe, and ultimately assumed control of the Fox Corporation.

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July 22, 2023

Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation Clash of Discourses

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Free Download Harald A. Mieg, "Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation: Clash of Discourses "
English | ISBN: 0815347006 | 2017 | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges―not only through the known conflicts between monument preservation and contemporary architecture, but also with the increasing demand for economic urban development by reusing the built heritage of former industrial sites.

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July 5, 2023

Aegean Mercenaries in Light of the Bible Clash of cultures in the story of David and Goliath

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Free Download Simona Rodan, "Aegean Mercenaries in Light of the Bible: Clash of cultures in the story of David and Goliath"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1784911062 | PDF | pages: 122 | 3.4 mb
The story of the duel of David and Goliath, the Philistine champion, is narrated in the Bible in several versions. While its symbolic importance in Judaism and later in Christianity gradually came to represent the battle between good and evil, true faith and paganism, attempts were made since ancient times to solve its ambiguities. In modern research, the story arouses many disputes. There is controversy about the degree of realism and fantasy in it and there is also no agreement as to the time it was composed. Some claim that this was close to the time when the event occurred at the beginning of the monarchy period. Others postpone the time of its writing to the end of the Judaean monarchy and even to Second Temple times by pointing out its similarities to Greek literature and the characteristics of Goliath as an Aegean hoplite. The purpose of the study is not only to shed light on the enigmas about the protagonists and the time of the story, but also to understand why the importance of its message did not lessen and in what circumstances the interest in it was prolonged. The study employs a textual analysis (literary and philological) of the story together with its comparison to Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian literary sources, historical analysis, and also a comparative analysis with archaeological findings. It examines sources which until now have not been included in research and suggests a new date, place and motive for the compilation of the duel story.

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June 30, 2023

The Clash Takes on the World Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters

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Free Download Samuel Cohen, "The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters"
English | ISBN: 1501317334 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "bored with the USA," but The Clash wasn’t a parochial record. Mick Jones’ licks on songs such as "Hate and War" were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin’s reggae hit "Police and Thieves" showed that the band’s musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics.

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