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2) Genghis Khan
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publisher
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the chief of a small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius, and demigod. To Muslims, Russians, and westerners, he is a murderer of millions, a brutal oppressor. Yet in his homeland of Mongolia he is the revered father of the nation, and the Chinese honor him as the founder of a dynasty. In his so-called Mausoleum in Inner Mongolia, worshippers seek the blessing of his spirit. In a supreme paradox, the world's...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Tamerlane (1336-1405) - the successor to Genghis Khan - ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's most celebrated conquerors. The details of his life are scarcely known in the West. The name "Tamerlane" is actually a corruption of "Temur the Lame," combining his Asian name with a reference to a crippling injury suffered in his youth. He was born in obscurity and poverty in Central Asia and spent his youth as a sheep stealer and petty thief....
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The names of great conquerors are few and fearsome. Attila the Hun. Genghis Khan. That guy whose fists you attacked with your face in the fifth grade. And now two more: Pinky and the Brain are the names. From the Peabody Award-winning series Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs comes the saga of two genetically engineered laboratory mice and their pursuit of world domination. The hilariously popular lab mice now starring in their animated comedy spin-off...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this...
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