Arts & Photography
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * HONORÉ DAUMIER AS we attempt, at the present day, to write the history of everything, it would be strange if we had happened to neglect the annals ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

1 MURDERER. 'T is, my good lord. SUFFOLK. Away! be gone. [Exeunt Murderers.] [Sound trumpets. Enter the KING, the QUEEN, CARDINAL BEAUFORT, SOMERSET, with attendants.] KING. Go, call our uncle ...
( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

Chapter 17 The fall of St Elmo Through the narrowstreets of Birgu, the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem went in solemn procession to the Conventual ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Stefan Klein

THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MECHANICAL LION Let us not forget that Leonardo earned his living by conjuring up dreams and illusions. After all, his primary task at the court was ...
( Category: Italy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Davies

The Commonwealth’s treatment of Ireland was infinitely more ‘thorough’ than anything that Strafford might have dreamed of. It cemented the Protestant Ascendancy that was to last until the twentieth century. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Chris McNab

German troops advance behind an StuG III through the devastated landscape of Stalingrad in 1942. The destruction of Stalingrad was so complete that during the severe winter of 1942/43 the ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

There was an unusual condition of the weather that materially affected the life and nature of the Thames in previous centuries. The river had a propensity to freeze at the ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |zho | 2009-11-09 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

The promise of serving together proved powerful. In Liverpool the earl of Derby, the great mover and shaker of the commercial northwest (and subsequently director-general of army recruiting), called on ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Simon Jenkins

Painted ceiling in the Royal Hospital in Greenwich: though firm Protestants, William and Mary revelled in Stuart grandeur and understood the potency of monarchical symbols. Anne, last of the Stuart ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:David Isby [Isby, David]

Land and Water Conflicts over land and water rights underlie a lot of Afghanistan’s internal strife, including those relating to corruption and even terrorism. Arable land and water are both ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )