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Elizabeth's Rival by Nicola Tallis
epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Nicola Tallis [Tallis, Nicola]

CHAPTER 14 My Sorrowful Wife THE EARL OF Leicester’s primary residences were Leicester House, Wanstead and Kenilworth, and it was at the former two that Lettice spent the majority of ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2018 )
Inglorious Royal Marriages by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Leslie Carroll

PHILIPPE OF FRANCE, DUC d’ORLÉANS AND HENRIETTE-ANNE OF ENGLAND MARRIED: 1661–1670 AND ELISABETH CHARLOTTE von der PFALZ, PRINCESS PALATINE MARRIED: 1671–1701 Everyone loved “Minette,” except her own husband. What a ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2018 )
Henry V by Christopher Allmand
epub |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Christopher Allmand

1 M. Harvey, Solutions to the Schism. A study of some English attitudes, 1378 to 1409 (Sankt Ottilien, 1983), p. 196. 2 Cited by E.F. Jacob, Essays in the conciliar ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2018 )
Through the Embers of Chaos by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2017-01-21 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

The convergence in my life of the Chetniks and Ostrog Monastery was both unsurprising and confusing. Unsurprising because Chetniks tend to be devout Orthodox Christians, odd as that may seem ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 21,2018 )
After Long Silence by Helen Fremont
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Helen Fremont [Fremont, Helen]

Sometime in late 1941 Zosia introduced her sister to the Italian officers stationed in Lvov, and my mother was an instant hit, especially with the chief transportation engineer, Luigi Cotulli—a ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2018 )
The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Peter L. Jakab
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Peter L. Jakab [Jakab, Peter L.]

1. Address presented at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on May 20, 1914, on the occasion of Orville Wright’s receipt of the Institute’s Elliott Cresson Medal in recognition of his ...
( Category: United States January 20,2018 )
The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Alan Johnson

On that glorious morning of 7 May I’d bumped into Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s press secretary, outside Church House and he’d asked me what I expected to achieve in Parliament. ...
( Category: Historical January 20,2018 )
The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace by John C. Duval
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:John C. Duval

* His horse. * Killed. CHAPTER XXVIII. WALLACE SURPRISES A PARTY OF INDIANS WHO WERE MAKING THEMSELVES “COMFORTABLE” NEAR HIS RANCH. INDIANS are sometimes monstrous impudent, and will run the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 20,2018 )
Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution by Lee Edwards
epub |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Lee Edwards [Edwards, Lee]

Goldwater campaigned as he had in California rather than New Hampshire, making two or three major speeches a day in heavily populated areas and depending on the news media to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 18,2018 )
The Stowaway by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Gwen Shapiro

SEVEN THE STOWAWAY REPORT There were girls in Dunedin. But Billy was told by Lieutenant Harry Adams, For godsake, go home for a year and have fun! Visit your worried ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 17,2018 )
The $ 30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Twain Mark
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Twain, Mark

The Californian's Tale Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and washing a hatful of dirt here ...
( Category: Humor & Satire January 16,2018 )
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Tim Jeal

From the time of this incident all order and discipline broke down and it was with the greatest difficulty that Livingstone prevented the whole party disbanding en route. That evening ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2018 )
Brutus by Kathryn Tempest
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Kathryn Tempest

Terror at Rome For the remaining months of Cicero’s life, we must make do without any speeches or letters from his hands. It makes little difference; by then Cicero had ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 16,2018 )
Braxton Bragg by Earl J. Hess
epub |eng | | Author:Earl J. Hess

SIMON B. BUCKNER. A member of the troublesome Kentucky clique in the Army of Tennessee, Buckner initially tried to soothe Bragg’s anger at Polk’s disobedience of orders during the Kentucky ...
( Category: Americas January 16,2018 )
The Field Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Stephen English
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Stephen English

Topography of the Battlefield Only Arrian and Curtius provide us with any useful topographical details of the battlefield, the main feature being its flatness, save for the nearby mound of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 16,2018 )

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