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The Patrician Tribune by W. Jeffrey Tatum
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:W. Jeffrey Tatum [Tatum, W. Jeffrey]

4 He responded with what Cicero describes as unbridled fury. On 3 November armed men disrupted the rebuilding of Cicero’s domus as well as the porticus Catuli. They then set ...
( Category: Greece March 4,2023 )
A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman
epub |eng | 2019-01-31 | Author:Guy Chapman [Chapman, Guy]

PART TWO THE GROGNARDS ‘We are but soldiers for the working day.’ HENRY V XIII CHORUS OF RUSTICS.‘What will Master Jack say? But here comes Master Jack!’ (BAND AD LIB.—see ...
( Category: World War I March 4,2023 )
The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 5 (of 6) by Unknown
epub |eng | 2013-06-15 | Author:Unknown

Slyfelde is agreyd to tary the a vij. nyghte text unchanged: error for “ther(e)”? Footnote 162-1: Omitted in MS. final . missing or invisible 816 MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON164.1 ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2023 )
Orlando M. Poe by Paul Taylor
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Paul Taylor [Taylor, Paul]

General William T. Sherman and staff outside Atlanta, 1864. Poe is sitting on the retaining wall, facing camera, fourth from left. (Library of Congress) Poe had felt that the continuous, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 3,2023 )
Otto Daria by Eric Koch
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Eric Koch [Koch, Eric]

Chapter 22 Internment: The English Phase I spent the two months between May and June 1940 in three camps: Bury St. Edmunds (in Suffolk, near Cambridge), Huyton (an unfinished housing ...
( Category: Canada March 3,2023 )
No Mercy from the Japanese by John Wyatt Cecil Lowry
epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:John Wyatt, Cecil Lowry [John Wyatt, Cecil Lowry]

Chapter 8 The Hellships Asaka Maru and Hakusan Maru With work on the railway finished we were told to pack up our belongings and be ready to move out of ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2023 )
The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618–1654 by David Booy
epub |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:David Booy [Booy, David]

Notes 1 The first (not extant) was number 15 in Wallington’s list in the Folger notebook, dated 1639 (Seaver, 1985: 200). 2 Editorial additions in this and the next two ...
( Category: Ireland March 2,2023 )
The Wolves at My Shadow by The Wolves at My Shadow (epub)
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:The Wolves at My Shadow (epub)

A Token of Friendship June 1936 When our train came to a stop at the next station Paps and Mutsch looked at each other sorrowfully. We said nothing as we ...
( Category: Germany March 2,2023 )
Sir Harry Parkes by Gordon Daniels
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Gordon Daniels [Daniels, Gordon]

6 Home Away from Home - 1871-73 - SIR HARRY PARKES left Japan on 22 May 1871, and after crossing the Pacific, the American continent, and the Atlantic Ocean, arrived ...
( Category: Japan March 2,2023 )
My Life in the IRA: by Michael Ryan Padraig Yeates
epub |eng | 2018-01-05 | Author:Michael Ryan, Padraig Yeates [Michael Ryan, Padraig Yeates]

6 The Final Phase, 1959–60 When I arrived back on the Louth–Armagh border in autumn 1959, I set about organising operations for the south Armagh area. Given our limited resources ...
( Category: Europe March 1,2023 )
Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard by Zenas Leonard Milo Milton Quaife
epub |eng | 2021-09-09 | Author:Zenas Leonard, Milo Milton Quaife [Zenas Leonard, Milo Milton Quaife]

We passed one night with these Indians, during which time they informed us of an accessible passage over the mountain. In the morning we resumed our journey, hiring two of ...
( Category: United States March 1,2023 )
Nation Builders by Gail H. Corbett
epub |eng | 2002-09-15 | Author:Gail H. Corbett [Corbett, Gail H.]

Dr. Barnardo’s Receiving and Distributing Home 115 Pacific Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba — W.H. Chapman Road making on Dr. Barnardo’s Industrial Farm ‘ “Road making here means simply ploughing up the ...
( Category: Canada March 1,2023 )
Napoleon - Life by Paul B. Johnson
pdf |en | | Author: Paul B. Johnson

( Category: France March 1,2023 )
Mr Midshipman VC by Quentin Falk
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Quentin Falk [Falk, Quentin]

Among many letters of congratulation to Samson was one from Thomas Drewry who wrote: ‘My son has often told me how gallantly you behaved.’ While it is likely that George’s ...
( Category: World War I February 28,2023 )
Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Dennistoun Edward Hutton
epub |eng | 2021-04-06 | Author:James Dennistoun, Edward Hutton, [James Dennistoun, Edward Hutton,]

On the accession of Julius II. his star rapidly rose to the zenith of his reputation. His Urbino extraction was a recommendation to the new Pontiff, which his talents fully ...
( Category: Italy February 27,2023 )

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