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The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Hollingsworth Mary
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Hollingsworth, Mary [Hollingsworth, Mary]

Sebastiano del Piombo, Clement VII, 1526 (Naples, Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte). After Raphael, The Donation of Constantine, early 1520s (Vatican Palace, Stanza di Costantino). The papal claim to secular power ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2020 )
Gustav Vasa and the Swedish Revolution by Paul Watson
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Watson

The first person to whom the monarch turned was Bishop Brask. It appears that there had been some dispute between the bishop and one of the hospitals in his diocese ...
( Category: World March 12,2020 )
Astoria by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 1835-12-14 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

Chapter 29 RESUMING their course on the following morning, Mr. Hunt and his companions continued on westward through a rugged region of hills and rocks, but diversified in many places ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Geronimo by Mike Leach & Buddy Levy
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Leach & Buddy Levy

GERONIMO’S ADVERSARIES: BRITTON DAVIS, ARMY OFFICER (JUNE 4, 1860–JANUARY 23, 1930) Born at Brownsville, Texas, Davis graduated from West Point in 1881. He joined the 3rd Cavalry and was sent ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Mayflower Lives by Martyn Whittock
epub |eng | 2019-05-18 | Author:Martyn Whittock

Later life, at Duxbury and Kingston In Plymouth the Howlands lived on the north side of Leyden Street, on the four-acre spot granted to the family by the Division of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 12,2020 )
WHITE HOUSE DAZE by CHARLES KOLB
epub |eng | 1994-07-15 | Author:CHARLES KOLB

7 Empowerment and the “New Paradigm” If a paradigm is ever to triumph it must gain some first supporters, men who will develop it to the point where hardheaded arguments ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
Louis XIV by John Abbott
epub |eng | | Author:John Abbott

THE WAR IN HOLLAND ~ 1670-1679 MADAME DE MONTESPAN WAS NOW the reigning favorite. The conscience-stricken king could not endure to think of death. He studiedly excluded from observation every ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2020 )
Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

SEVENTH SCENE. .................. The Evening Party. —————————————————————————— MR. TURLINGTON, LADY WINWOOD At Home. Wednesday, December 15th.—Ten o’clock. —————————————————————————— “Dearest Natalie—As the brute insists, the brute must have the invitation which ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
Philip II of Spain by Martin Hume
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Hume

CHAPTER XI PHILIP AND ENGLAND—ELIZABETH SEIZES his treasure—Spanish plots against her—Philip and the northern rebellion—The excommunication of Elizabeth—Ridolfi’s plot—Philip’s hesitancy—Prohibition of English trade with Spain—Its futility—Alba’s retirement from Flanders—Philip’s responsibility ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2020 )
Sala's Gift by Ann Kirschner
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Ann Kirschner

By the fall of 1942, as camps shut down and addresses changed, mail service to and from the Schmelt camps became more erratic. Sara Czarka was assigned to clean the ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
They Said This Day Would Never Come by Chris Liddell-Westefeld
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Chris Liddell-Westefeld

Obama Takes Iowa in a Big Turnout as Clinton Falters; Huckabee Victor —New York Times, January 4, 2008 Bam Slams Hillary in Historic Victory. He’s First Black to Win Iowa ...
( Category: Elections March 12,2020 )
Whitewash IV by Harold Weisberg
epub |eng | 1973-12-31 | Author:Harold Weisberg

Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS TOP SECRET JFK Assassination Transcript, by Harold Weisberg "Freedom of Information" - for Officials Only What the Suppressed Evidence Shows ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 by Samuel Adams Drake
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Samuel Adams Drake [Drake, Samuel Adams]

FOOTNOTES: [43] It seems plain that next to Reynolds Hancock was the one in whom Meade reposed most confidence. [44] This was the Seventh Indiana, which had been acting as ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
Spirit of Resistance by Nigel Perrin
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Nigel Perrin

Chapter 10 Retribution On the morning of Tuesday 21 March, Peulevé said goodbye to Poirier and took his usual route down the back stairs, discreetly leaving the Champanatier by a ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Booker T. Washington [Unbekannt]

"Until that time comes this monument will stand for effort, not victory complete. What these heroic souls of the 54th regiment began we must complete. It must be completed not ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 12,2020 )

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