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Catherine de Medici: A Biography by Leonie Frieda
epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Leonie Frieda [Frieda, Leonie]

ELEVEN MARGOT’S MARRIAGE IS ARRANGED I would prefer to see him become a Huguenot than to see him endanger his life in this way 1570–72 Once the Treaty of Saint-Germain ...
( Category: Historical December 24,2017 )
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Nesteroff Kliph
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Nesteroff, Kliph [Nesteroff, Kliph]

Edward Albee. The vaudeville mogul aligned himself with church groups to crush competitors, smearing them as immoral. B. F. Keith’s New Theatre, p. 48/Wikimedia Commons The Ziegfeld Follies made big ...
( Category: Americas December 23,2017 )
Ivan the Terrible by de Madariaga Isabel
azw3 |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:de Madariaga, Isabel

But Viskovaty and Funikov were not the only targets.48 The heads of many other prikazy such as the prikaz of landed estates (Pomest'nyi), the principal office of revenue (Bol'shoi Prikaz), ...
( Category: Historical December 23,2017 )
Edward VIII by Piers Brendon
epub |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Piers Brendon

Edward’s broadcast, heard with breathless attention throughout his realm on the evening of 11 December, also contained a poignant valediction: ‘I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2017 )
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by unknow
epub |eng | 2010-02-20 | Author:unknow

And so to the king himself all Ithaca looked strange . . . the winding beaten paths, the coves where ships can ride, the steep rock face of the cliffs ...
( Category: Medicine December 22,2017 )
The Odyssey by unknow
epub |eng | 2010-03-05 | Author:unknow

And so to the king himself all Ithaca looked strange . . . the winding beaten paths, the coves where ships can ride, the steep rock face of the cliffs ...
( Category: Medicine December 22,2017 )
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1996-08-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 22,2017 )
Watergate by Keith W. Olson
epub |eng | 2016-07-22 | Author:Keith W. Olson

CHAPTER SEVEN From the Saturday Night Massacre to the Tape Transcripts November 1973 to May 1974 The President Should Resign. —Time editorial, November 12, 1973 Does anyone believe anything any ...
( Category: Americas December 22,2017 )
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Anna Politkovskaya [Politkovskaya, Anna]

57 HOURS November 4, 2002 The last few days have passed in a feverish delirium. Moscow is burying the hostages. Today, just like yesterday, just like tomorrow. It is unbearable. ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2017 )
People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East by Joris Luyendijk
epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Joris Luyendijk [Luyendijk, Joris]

Before I became a correspondent, I saw a journalist as a kind of a fly on the wall, an invisible microphone recording events, like the football commentators who sit somewhere ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2017 )
The Early Diary of Anais Nin by Anais Nin
epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Anais Nin [Nin, Anais]

Zora was in the hospital. Djuna was cooking for Rango now, edges. As Djuna passed through the various rooms to find Zora she saw a woman sitting up in bed ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 21,2017 )
I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead by Tranberg Charles
epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Tranberg, Charles [Tranberg, Charles]

12 THE WITCH OF ENDOR (1963–1964) As 1963 began Agnes was enjoying her run on Broadway in Lord Pengo, but after an initial burst of box office success, attendance began ...
( Category: Performing Arts December 21,2017 )
Something Beautiful Happened by Yvette Manessis Corporon
epub |eng | | Author:Yvette Manessis Corporon

PART FOUR chapter seventeen THE ONES WHO STOOD UP It was love at first phone call. “Do you speak Greek?” Marcia asked. “Yes, of course,” I replied. “I married a ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2017 )
In Retrospect by Robert McNamara
epub |eng | 2017-09-06 | Author:Robert McNamara

SECRETARY MCNAMARA: I don’t believe that the bombing up to the present has significantly reduced, nor any bombing that I could contemplate in the future would significantly reduce, the actual ...
( Category: Military December 21,2017 )
The Years by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2017-11-06 | Author:Annie Ernaux

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE The Years is at least twice as long as all but one of AE’s previous books and in other ways, too, is a departure from her other work. ...
( Category: World December 21,2017 )

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