Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

7 ‘Turning Away the Wrath of God’ At the beginning of June 1381, as John of Gaunt lay at Knaresborough, an army of yeomen and peasants was amassing in Kent ...
( Category: Specific Groups July 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

The Queen required all her female attendants to wear black and/or white, so that the vivid colours and embellishments of her own costume stood out dramatically. Woe betide the lady ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

There is more in the same vein, with the King pleading for aid against his enemies and detractors and, presumably, the threat of invasion from abroad. Then there is a ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Mary was delighted and moved to see them. After greetings were exchanged, the conversation was mainly about Henry Dudley’s arrest at Calais with incriminating evidence. Later, however, the Queen sent ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

38 ‘Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!’ IT WAS AROUND 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

11 Shall I die without justice? ON THE DAY of Queen Katherine’s funeral, Chapuys noticed Henry paying marked attention to ‘Mrs Semel [sic]’ and giving her ‘very large presents’. During ...
( Category: England July 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Davies, Dan [Davies, Dan]

39. PIED PIPER Jimmy Savile climbed the ladder of a scaffold tower and on reaching the platform at the top, spread his arms wide and soaked up the acclaim. Below, ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Shawn Levy [Levy, Shawn]

You start with the name, an impossible encumbrance: Rupert Pupkin. “Often misspelled and mispronounced,” he repeatedly says, and before long we hear “Pipkin” and “Pumpkin” and “Pupnik.” There is the ...
( Category: Biographies July 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:William H. Patterson Jr.

I’ve never yet been able to sort out the times when I’m to take an esoteric hint or wait for a pointed bluntness, of which latter you are abundantly capable ...
( Category: Authors July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Collins, Helen [Collins, Helen]

Chapter 10: The Upper West Side Apartment “Jodi!” Ronald stared, sleepy and amazed, looking at Jodi over the chain still connecting the apartment lock to the doorjamb. For once he ...
( Category: Decorative Arts & Design July 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Lisa Glasberg [Glasberg, Lisa]

I was constantly making cookies for the guys at Hot 97, so I had a hard time coming up with just one cookie that really reflected my time there. Then ...
( Category: Culinary July 19,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

After Barbara excused herself to take a shower, I went in search of fishing paraphernalia. I decided the garage behind the house would be my best bet. “Garage,” however, was ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural July 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Scott Thorson & Alex Thorleifson [Thorson, Scott & Thorleifson, Alex]

16 I always thought of Gladys Luckie as more than a housekeeper. She became a friend, a good one. On the days when Lee and I were home, I used ...
( Category: Memoirs July 19,2014 )
epub | | 2011-01-17 | Author:Federal Bureau of Investigation

Skeletal Samples Anthropological examinations can determine whether skeletal remains are human or animal. Race, sex, approximate height, and stature at death can be determined from human remains. Pick up samples ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem July 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jung Chang

Mao found the idea of peaceful progress suffocating. A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action violent action and regarded permanent human snuggle as necessary for social development. His ...
( Category: China July 18,2014 )