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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell
epub |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:Gareth Russell [Russell, Gareth]

Chapter 16 The Girl in the Silver Dress O, you wake then! come away, Times be short, are made for play; The humorous moon too will not stay … – ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 11,2018 )
View From the Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sir Edmund Hillary [Hillary, Sir Edmund]

Bunny Shackleton, Nov.19 For some reason I had thought that the previous message indicating that Bunny had reached South Ice meant that his whole team had arrived. I didn’t realise ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 11,2018 )
A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II by Gustaw Herling
epub |eng | 1996-05-31 | Author:Gustaw Herling [Herling, Gustaw]

Only in the bath-house was it possible to examine the effects of hunger, for in the barracks the prisoners seldom undressed for the night. The small bath-hut was always, full ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
How Hitler Was Made by Cory Taylor
epub |eng | | Author:Cory Taylor

Violence and terror were powerful tools in postwar German politics. Militias attached to political parties on the left and the right used brute force to intimidate their political rivals. These ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
The Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley by Keith Dowman
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Keith Dowman [Dowman, Keith]

I, a wandering Naljorpa, visited the Religious Centre of Lhasa, Where the hostesses were hoping for their guests’ gifts and favours. So fearing to become a base flatterer, I kept ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
Collecting Shakespeare by Stephen H. Grant
epub |eng | 2014-08-10 | Author:Stephen H. Grant

CHAPTER EIGHT Hotspur and Hal Two Henrys Compete * * * HOTSPUR: If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth. PRINCE: Thou speak’st as if I would deny my name. ...
( Category: Regional U.S August 11,2018 )
Bolivar by Robert Harvey
epub |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Robert Harvey [Robert Harvey]

The Orinoco river is one of the greatest in a continent of great rivers. Not as wide or as long as the Amazon, it is still some 400 yards broad ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
Napoleon by Dwyer Philip;
epub |eng | | Author:Dwyer, Philip;

Preparations for the exhumation went ahead and were carried out on the night of 14–15 October, so that the coffin would be ready for opening by morning, exactly twenty-five years ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

To Edward Bates Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 29, 1862. Hon. Attorney General My dear Sir: Few things perplex me more than this question between Gov. Gamble, and the War Department, ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
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 August 11,2018 )
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Goodwin Doris Kearns
epub |eng | 2008-06-29 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [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 August 11,2018 )
A Grand Complication by Stacy Perman
epub |eng | | Author:Stacy Perman

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Game Over In November 1926, a year after his first surgery to remove the tumor, Ward’s cancer returned and he checked himself into the renowned Cleveland Clinic. For ...
( Category: Automotive August 11,2018 )
Roberts Ridge by Malcolm MacPherson
epub |eng | 2005-08-29 | Author:Malcolm MacPherson

9 * * * DON TABRON, THE 160TH SOAR'S AIR MISSION commander who had been seated in the cockpit's jumpseat handling the radios, pitched in to help with the fight. ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )
Thailand by William Warren
epub |eng | | Author:William Warren

Assorted spirit houses and offerings; animist and other beliefs have coexisted with Buddhism for centuries in Thailand. Offerings are carried to a temple on an elephant in a northern merit-making ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )
The Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey
epub |eng | 2013-12-30 | Author:Catherine Bailey [Bailey, Catherine]

Reaching for the fountain pen he kept in the breast pocket of his suit, Henry wrote a note to his wife: I think you ought to see this. R [Rutland] ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )

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