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Versailles by Tony Spawforth
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tony Spawforth

8. Behind Closed Doors IN THE seventeenth century, when Versailles was built, privacy mattered much less to the French upper classes than it did a hundred years later. On the ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments May 2,2016 )
The Queen's House: A Social History of Buckingham Palace by Edna Healey
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:Edna Healey [Healey, Edna]

CHAPTER EIGHT King Edward VIII ‘Into the realm of Peter Pan’s Never-Never Land.’1 ERNEST SIMPSON TO MRS SIMPSON Abdication The reign of King Edward VIII was brief, but crucial in ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments February 7,2016 )
The Parthenon Enigma by Joan Breton Connelly
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Joan Breton Connelly

Death of Prokris, showing her “bird-soul” leaving her body while her husband Kephalos and father Erechtheus watch. Column krater, by Hephaistos Painter, ca. 440 B.C. (illustration credit ill.103) I would ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments April 5,2015 )
Grand Central by Sam Roberts
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Sam Roberts [ROBERTS, SAM]

PERHAPS THE TERMINAL’S MOST ENDURING EXPORT is about time. Until 1883, virtually every town in the country set local time by the sun. Typically, noon would be regularly signaled so ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )

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