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Journey to Enlightenment by Matthieu Ricard
epub |eng | | Author:Matthieu Ricard

When I arrived for the first time, Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Rinpoche told me that the night before he had dreamt of meeting the first Khyentse, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. “It is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2018 )
Mary, Queen of Scots by Eric Linklater
epub |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Eric Linklater

* * * 6 It was Fauldonside who threatened Mary with a pistol in the turmoil of Riccio’s murder. 7 Herries’s Memoirs. VIII As Borderers the Hepburns had the advantage ...
( Category: Europe September 6,2018 )
The Catcher Was a Spy_The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Nicholas Dawidoff [Dawidoff, Nicholas]

THE INFORMATION BERG was sending to Washington from the top floor of 24 Dufourstrasse wasn’t as dramatic as his cables describing the meeting with Heisenberg, but intelligence work rarely manages ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2018 )
No Ordinary Time_Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER 16 “THE GREATEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN” The President was in high spirits in the early days of 1943. At midnight, January 9, he was set to begin ...
( Category: Americas September 6,2018 )
God's Secretaries_The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Adam Nicolson [Nicolson, Adam]

For these Puritans, and in a way we can scarcely understand now, the words of the scriptures were thought to provide a direct, almost intravenous access to the divine. Listen, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2018 )
Band of Giants_The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence by Jack Kelly
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

Thirteen The Discipline of the Leggs 1778 “You might have tracked the army from White Marsh to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet,” George Washington wrote.1 A private ...
( Category: Americas September 6,2018 )
Edward VII_The Last Victorian King by Christopher Hibbert & Hugh Thomas
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Christopher Hibbert & Hugh Thomas [Hibbert, Christopher & Thomas, Hugh]

12 ‘Inconvenient’ Friends and ‘Ill-bred’ Children It is the greatest bane in one’s life saying good-bye, especially to one’s children, relations and friends. ‘If you ever become King,’ the Queen ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2018 )
The Sisters_The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
epub |eng | 2003-03-15 | Author:Mary S. Lovell [Lovell, Mary S.]

14 Irreconcilable Differences (1940–41) Although in the brief telephone conversation Unity sounded normal it was obvious from what Janos told them that she was far from well. The family learned ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2018 )
His Excellency_George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2005-11-08 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

THIS SPECIES OF PROPERTY IN DECEMBER 1785, Washington received a letter calculated to focus his mind on another worrisome association even more damaging to his abiding public image than the ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2018 )
The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton by R. Scott Williams
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:R. Scott Williams

Richard Halliburton’s “recreational” travel document issued on May 25, 1928, used as he explored South America for New Worlds to Conquer. Courtesy of the Rhodes College Archives and Special Collections, ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2018 )
The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success by Martin Dugard
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Martin Dugard

“Courage,” wrote the academic and theologian C. S. Lewis, “is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” Yet as much as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 5,2018 )
Holocaust by Longerich Peter;
epub |eng | | Author:Longerich, Peter;

Extension of the Murders to the Other Districts The temporary stop to the deportations from the district of Lublin in early June is likely to have been due to the ...
( Category: World September 5,2018 )
The Last Palace by Norman Eisen
epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:Norman Eisen

* * * The presence of Laurence’s family did not slow his relationship with Cecilia. She reciprocated his ardor. “He was still in the prime of life when we met—a ...
( Category: Europe September 5,2018 )
The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel
epub |eng | | Author:Miriam Pawel

Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt, who met in 1971, were both public figures who valued their privacy. The couple did not often appear together at public events. But when Jerry ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2018 )
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son by Beverley Murphy
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Beverley Murphy [Murphy, Beverley]

Norfolk may well have been unwilling to endorse the plan, but he probably did not have to argue very hard to get Henry to agree. The situation in Ireland was ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2018 )

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