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Spartacus Road by Peter Stothard
epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
The Unprejudiced Palate by Angelo M. Pellegrini
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Angelo M. Pellegrini [Pellegrini, Angelo]

II About ten years ago I prepared a dinner which consisted in part of broiled pork steak and turnip greens. Neither the occasion nor the food was in any way ...
( Category: Italian March 13,2020 )
May at 10 by Anthony Seldon
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Anthony Seldon [Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell]

MAY’S SPEECH: 4 OCTOBER Much hinged on the impact of May’s speech, and she knew it. She’d reflected on what she might say over her long summer break and determined ...
( Category: Leadership March 13,2020 )
Riding with George by Smucker Philip
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Smucker, Philip

By the fifth week in my historical fencing class, we moved on to a weapon that was efficient for killing, easier to handle, and served well, as one expert noted ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 13,2020 )
The Inner Life of Empires by Emma Rothschild
epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Emma Rothschild

• CHAPTER EIGHT • OTHER PEOPLE Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray, who was John and Elizabeth Carolina’s granddaughter, wrote in her Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839, that the ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
A Half Century of Conflict by Francis Parkman
epub |eng | | Author:Francis Parkman [Parkman, Francis]

CHAPTER X. 1713-1724. SEBASTIEN RALE. Boundary Disputes.--Outposts of Canada.--The Earlier and Later Jesuits.--Religion and Politics.--The Norridgewocks and their Missionary.--A Hollow Peace.--Disputed Land Claims.--Council at Georgetown.--Attitude of Rale.--Minister and Jesuit.--The Indians ...
( Category: Canadian March 13,2020 )
Muddling Through by Peter Howson
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Peter Howson

It is of interest that the report should give the credit for the creation of the IAC to Lloyd George. Whilst the use of the tactic of creating a committee ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
Caesar and the Roman Empire by W. Warde Fowler
epub |eng | | Author:W. Warde Fowler

THE GALLIC REBELLIONS. 54-52 B.C. ~ THE RETREAT FROM BRITAIN IN September, 54 B.C., marks a turning point in Caesar’s life. His happiest and brightest years were surely the first ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
William the Silent by Frederic Harrison
epub |eng | | Author:Frederic Harrison

THE DEATH GRAPPLE—NEGOTIATIONS—ABANDONMENT 1572-1574 FROM HENCEFORTH WILLIAM OF Orange was settled in Holland, and he clung to it whilst life remained. After the débandade of his mutinous army, amidst constant ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami
epub |eng | 2018-12-18 | Author:Diana Souhami

THREE When Bertie began his ‘small Mrs George dinners’ in 1898, his mother, Queen Victoria, had been on the throne for sixty-one years. She had two to go. Her fat ...
( Category: LGBT March 13,2020 )
The First Stampede of Flores LaDue by Wendy Bryden
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Bryden

#xa0; CHAPTER 10 Travels on the Continent The world seemed to overflow with possibilities for Florence and Guy Weadick in 1908 as they made their way south to Medicine Hat ...
( Category: Women March 13,2020 )
And I’d Do It Again by Aimée Crocker
epub |eng | | Author:Aimée Crocker [Crocker, Aimée]

( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe by Christopher Pagliuco
epub |eng | 2019-03-31 | Author:Christopher Pagliuco

CHAPTER 3 IRONSIDES As mere commoners, Whalley and Goffe could only follow these political whirlwinds from the outside. Goffe’s arrest in 1642 for his role in circulating a petition to ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President by Helen Thomas
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Helen Thomas

Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee got a laugh when he said that President Carter had originally planned to appoint Billy Carter head of the CIA, but Billy didn’t ...
( Category: Leadership March 13,2020 )
America's First Dynasty by Richard Brookhiser
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

____________________ ADAMS WAS AHEAD of his time. The country reacted to the prospective collapse of its political arrangements by making one more effort to prop them up. It was the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 13,2020 )

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