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Frederick the Second by Ernst Kantorowicz
epub |eng | | Author:Ernst Kantorowicz [Kantorowicz, Ernst]

* The Hebrew scholars of Spain and of Provence with whom Frederick established relations, or whom he even brought to court, contributed rather to the astronomical and philosophical than to ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2019 )
Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D Campbell
epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Will D Campbell [Campbell, Will D]

EVENING If blue skies, lenient summer temperature, and an unruffling breeze moving in rhythmic and welcome spurts off the Louisiana Gulf make for beauty, then the day after my thirty-fifth ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 3,2019 )
Katharine Hepburn by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Edwards

Footnotes * Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), knighted in 1972, gained fame as a photographer of the British Royal Family and of noted personalities. He was a great artist in design and ...
( Category: Women in History August 3,2019 )
Bloody Bill Anderson by Albert Castel & Thomas Goodrich
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Albert Castel & Thomas Goodrich [Castel, Albert & Goodrich, Thomas]

Chapter Seven The Lord Have Mercy The Guerrilla Camp, Young’s Creek: 2:00–3:00 P.M. “I say, Bill, I wonder how in the hell Anderson has permitted this damn Yankee to live ...
( Category: American Civil War August 3,2019 )
The White King by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Leanda de Lisle

* When Henrietta Maria reached Nevers in October 1644, her dwarf Jeffrey Hudson challenged the brother of the captain of her guard to a duel. The weapons chosen were pistols ...
( Category: Royalty August 3,2019 )
The Riddle and the Knight by Giles Milton
epub |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:Giles Milton [Milton, Giles]

The Riddle and the Knight I asked him more about the Assyrian church. Did anyone still call it the Nestorian church? He gave me a confused look. "Nestorian church?" he ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 3,2019 )
The Emperors of Rome by David Potter
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:David Potter [Potter, David]

Eastern cults The Romans also had the sense that Graeco-Roman culture was relatively young compared with the ancient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Tourists – including the emperor Hadrian – ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2019 )
Soldier, Priest, and God by F S Naiden
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:F S Naiden

Anonymous color drawing of the western bank of the Beas River, 1848. Illustrated London News. in early fall, the army marched back to the place on the Jhelum where they ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2019 )
Pioneering Palm Beach by Ginger L Pedersen & Janet M DeVries
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Ginger L Pedersen & Janet M DeVries [Pedersen, Ginger L & DeVries, Janet M]

SEMINOLE INDIANS AT JUPITER LIGHTHOUSE. During the late 1800s, the Seminole Indians traded with the pioneers living along the coast. The Jupiter Lighthouse, constructed in 1860, is seen in the ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
The Lost World of James Smithson by Heather Ewing
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Heather Ewing [Ewing, Heather]

Vivant Denon in Kassel examining pictures to take back to Paris for the Musee Napoleonienne (the Louvre), 1807. By the beginning of November 1806 the French had taken Kassel. Prince ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
Coleridge- Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

…My body bending forward, yea, o’erbalanced Almost beyond recoil, on the dim brink Of a huge chasm I stept. The shadowy moonshine Filling the void so counterfeited substance, That my ...
( Category: Poetry August 3,2019 )
The Churchills by Mary S Lovell
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Mary S Lovell [Lovell, Mary S]

( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
Searching for Stonewall Jackson by Ben Cleary
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Ben Cleary

“Around this crossroads is bloody ground,” reads the old granite-based marker where the battlefield of Gaines’ Mill overlaps the battlefield of Cold Harbor. Besieged twice, Richmond was attacked by McClellan ...
( Category: American Civil War August 2,2019 )
Bagehot by James Grant
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:James Grant

The Bank of England now manage well, and they used to manage ill. The directors used to let the reserve run low, and at every period of consecutive failures there ...
( Category: United States August 2,2019 )
White Rajah by Nigel Barley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nigel Barley [Barley, Nigel]

Bishop Wilson of Calcutta was very different from his lissom great-nephew, William Brereton. He was seventy-two years old, huge and fat and eccentric and, by the obscure rules that govern ...
( Category: Royalty August 2,2019 )

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