archive.org

[PDF] A compendium of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin languages (August Schleicher) ( archive.org )

I'm sharing this mostly as a historical curiosity; Schleicher was genial, but the book is a century and half old, science marches on, so it isn't exactly good source material. Still an enjoyable read if you like Historical Linguistics, as it was one of the first successful attempts to reconstruct a language based on indirect...

Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in twentieth-century America - Norwood, Stephen H. 1951 ( archive.org )

Using a social-historical approach, the author focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts and considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter them. The book also traces the economic restructuring which transformed corporate anti-unionism

Rumors circulated in 1936 that Joseph Stalin was dead. This was his response. ( archive.org )

Just six years ago, when there were rumors that Stalin was dead, was dying or was going to the United States for a serious operation, the Associated Press Moscow correspondent—then Charles P. Nutter—wrote asking him for the truth....

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •