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Yves-Marie Stranger still remembers the stunned look on the faces of his guests. They had ridden horses in Mongolia, trekked ...

The British lieutenant also crossed Nathaniel Greene, a wealthy merchant and later George Washington's second-in-command, who sued for the illegal seizure of his cargo.

The star of Mystery Road exposes a dark chapter of Australian history in her second novel, I Am Nannertgarrook.

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Stolen from Africa, enslaved people first arrived in colonial Virginia in 1619. Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to ...

CHAPTER 6 The 1920s in Sri Lanka was a period of excitement and change. Politically there was significant movement after many ...

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Malabar Pepper, grown in Kerala’s monsoon-rich hills, is a bold black pepper variety with a historic global trade legacy.

Index•Synopsis•Ancient Indian Contractual Ethics in the Vedic and Dharmashastra Period•Legal Foundations of Contracts in the Classical Smriti Texts•Kautilya’s Arthashastra and the Secular Regulation o ...