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Heaven's Bride by Leigh Eric Schmidt
epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Leigh Eric Schmidt

A CARD-CARRYING LIBERAL, Craddock saw religion and sex as intensely “private affairs,” things that priests and magistrates should not presumptuously legislate for free and equal individuals. “Are we free, can ...
( Category: World January 30,2019 )
The Making of a Royal Romance by Katie Nicholl
epub |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Katie Nicholl

Chapter 11 Stepping in line at Sandhurst Nobody’s really supposed to love it, it’s Sandhurst . . . you get treated like a piece of dirt to be honest. Prince ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2019 )
Henry VI by Bertram Wolffe
epub |eng | | Author:Bertram Wolffe

1 Stevenson, Wars, I, 151–2. 2 Ibid., 118. 3 Ibid., 109. 4 Ibid., 116. 5 Over two dozen examples of this correspondence are recorded in print, most of them by ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2019 )
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Lovell Mary S
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Lovell, Mary S. [Lovell, Mary S.]

25 HOME AGAIN 1868–1869 Before she sailed from Santos in July 1868, Isabel had the sad task of packing up their chattels, selling off their large items of furniture and ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 30,2019 )
These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack With Jackie by Andersen Christopher
epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Andersen, Christopher [Andersen, Christopher]

BY MID-MAY, JACKIE FELT SHE had earned the right to flee to Virginia—ostensibly to indulge her true passion by competing in the Loudoun Hunt horse show. In truth, she was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2019 )
Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm
epub |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Sarah Helm [Helm, Sarah]

I had to read the sentence twice to understand that the packed human beings were mentioned in this sentence only in a passive sense—in order to explain the process of ...
( Category: World January 30,2019 )
Dawn by S. J. West
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:S. J. West [West, S. J.]

I sat in the car not really paying attention to where Jace was driving. I guess I just assumed we were going back to the house we were using as ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science January 29,2019 )
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten by Lady Pamela Hicks & Corrie James
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Lady Pamela Hicks & Corrie James [Hicks, Lady Pamela & James, Corrie]

11 After all the ceremonies and parties we next flew to Bombay. This was my chance to meet the student leaders who, following independence, had been released from prison. They ...
( Category: World January 29,2019 )
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson
mobi |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Lynne Olson

For the men of the British Expeditionary Force, which had been dispatched to France on September 10, it was also turning out to be a phantom conflict. The two BEF ...
( Category: Europe January 27,2019 )
Mark Twain and the Colonel by McFarland Philip;
epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:McFarland, Philip; [McFarland, Philip]

Figure 27.1. The Haymarket Riot, May 4, 1886. Pictured across the top are the slain policemen. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. To protest such terms, a general walkout was ...
( Category: Historical January 26,2019 )
Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power by Ernle Bradford
epub |eng | 1984-12-15 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

Civil War One legion was little enough with which to invade a country and attack an empire. There must have been those in Rome who, knowing the situation, felt confident ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 26,2019 )
In the Sun's House by Kurt Caswell
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Kurt Caswell

I rose early to Kuma’s soft whimpering at the tent door. I pulled on my pants and warm fleece anorak, a little panicked and curious about the bus. It was ...
( Category: Americas January 26,2019 )
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley by Schafer Daniel L.;
epub |eng | 2017-05-14 | Author:Schafer, Daniel L.; [Неизв.]

As it worked out, Elizabeth, Julia, Polly, and Joe became free persons and citizens of the United States of America as the result of the inferno that soon inflamed the ...
( Category: World January 25,2019 )
The Lives of Michel Foucault by David Macey
epub |eng | | Author:David Macey

Early on Saturday afternoon, a planning meeting took place at the Ecole Normale, where a group of Maoists, no strangers to illegal demonstrations, carefully drew a map of the streets ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 24,2019 )
Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lamar Waldron

Chapter Thirty-six 453 All of this information had a three-part implication for CIA Cuban operations in 1967. First, the CIA was trying to downgrade its violent operatives to a less ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 23,2019 )

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