Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:G. J. Meyer

17 A New Beginning With the death of Henry VIII, the supreme headship of the church in England, the authority to decide what every man and woman in the kingdom ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:T. J. English

11 THE FEDS AND LITTLE AL CAPONE In the wake of the Whitehead homicide, the Intelligence cops began their most concerted initiative yet. Ironically, it had nothing to do with ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

12 ‘Here Lies the Body’1 When Henry VIII dissolved the religious houses of England, the fate of the burials within the monastic and conventual churches varied. Occasionally, surviving relatives took ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Ian Hamilton

Chapter Fifteen Twenty-four hours earlier we could have called the whole thing off and gone home to live with nothing worse than our private shame at our failure. Up until ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-08-15 | Author:Alison Weir

256 Richard held his first Christmas court at Bures in Normandy with great solemnity, and at the end of December met Philip again, at Nonancourt, to discuss preparations for the ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-13 | Author:Simon Dixon

In the end, the Menshikov Palace was used to house theatrical staff and Catherine chose to build a new stone residence on the site of the burnt-out palace on the ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Marc Morris

The Great Cause Within a month of the close of the autumn parliament of 1290 Queen Eleanor was dead. During her stay in Gascony she had contracted a malarial fever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-06 | Author:Tom Clancy; General Tony Zinni

ZINNI’S INVOLVEMENT in “Operations Other Than War”—like Provide Comfort, Provide Hope, Provide Promise, and others while at EUCOM—provided a wealth of experience that he later drew on constantly. These were ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Marie Arana

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

At the Western Palace When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )