Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Strathern

At last, Cesare had now officially taken on the title that he had so envied when it had been held by the incompetent braggart Juan Borgia, his younger brother, prior ...
( Category: United States June 27,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jack Fairweather

IV Chapter 17 Impact GENEVA NOVEMBER 1942 Napoleon finally gave up waiting on the legation in Switzerland to sort out his visas and on November 7 he traveled to Geneva, ...
( Category: United States June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris DeRose

Chapter Thirty-One The Implements of Death * * * “This dreadful affair is the theme of conversation in every social community in the country. No event of a similar kind ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Peter Conners

The King of May Throughout 1964 and 1965, Allen Ginsberg was deeply involved in the newest countercultural movements in New York City. The mid-Sixties saw an influx of avant-garde filmmakers ...
( Category: United States June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-02 | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

2 The second crossing of the Rhine (53 B.C.) 9. After marching from the country of the Menapii to that of the Treveri, Caesar determined to cross the Rhine for ...
( Category: Rome June 25,2019 )
epub |swe | 1709-03-15 | Author:Diana Athill [Athill, Diana]

PART TWO IN 1962 I WROTE – and meant – the following description of the relationship between publisher and writer. It is an easy one, because the publisher usually meets ...
( Category: Journalists June 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Andrew Nagorski

* * * For a long time, the Nazis had equivocated on the ultimate fate of the Jews. After Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, the Germans had quickly ...
( Category: World War II June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 1975-12-15 | Author:Isabella L. Bird [Bird, Isabella L.]

Page 126 His magnificent head shows so plainly the better possibilities which might have been his. His life, in spite of a certain dazzle which belongs to it, is a ...
( Category: Women June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Larissa Juliet Taylor

Map 10 Joan's route to captivity and execution, March–May 1430. The bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, an important diplomat and former rector of the University of Paris, wrote offering money. ...
( Category: Women in History June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-21 | Author:Xenophon

BOOK FIVE CHAPTER 1 Naval operations round Aegina. Teleutias’ raid on the Piraeus. Antalcidas and the King’s Peace (389–386 B.C.) 1 WHILE the Athenians and Spartans were conducting these operations ...
( Category: History & Theory June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-21 | Author:Xenophon

CHAPTER 9 [1] So far I have covered how to avoid being swindled when buying a colt or a horse, how to treat a horse so as to avoid spoiling ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Plutarch

26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...
( Category: Rome June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Rich Cohen

* * * — The prosecution saved its most dramatic witnesses for the end of the trial, the third and fourth day. These were men and women, some intimately involved ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Mary Hoban

If the arguments between them had a remarkable intensity, so too did their reconciliations. By the beginning of 1867 Julia was pregnant again — her tenth pregnancy in fifteen years ...
( Category: Women in History June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Temple, Wayne C.; Davis, Rodney O.; Wilson, Douglas L.

Returns to Journalism The ex–naval officer returned to the field of journalism where he became known as a versatile writer and a prominent California editor.80 “A large daily newspaper, radical ...
( Category: American Civil War June 16,2019 )