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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin
epub |eng | 2004-05-11 | Author:Gretchen Rubin

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and ...
( Category: Historical October 19,2017 )
QUEEN VICTORIA A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Hibbert

Chapter 36 DEATH OF THE PRINCE 'I must tell you, most confidentially, that it requires no little management to prevent her breaking down altogether.' 'Dearest Papa... is not well, with ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2017 )
Wicked Muncie by Keith Roysdon
epub |eng | 2016-10-19 | Author:Keith Roysdon

Local authorities seemed to quickly lose interest in solving the September 1910 slaying of Muncie businessman Norman Black. Courtesy of the Muncie Morning Star. With the case seemingly going nowhere, ...
( Category: Americas October 19,2017 )
Operation Mayhem by Steve Heaney MC
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:Steve Heaney MC [Heaney MC, Steve]

14 Bang on schedule that evening Mojo turned up with our bread delivery. He had some worrying news for us. ‘You need to come and speak to the chief. He ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
Rainy Lake House by Theodore Catton
epub |eng | 2017-10-19 | Author:Theodore Catton

30 A Loathsome Man In the spring of 1808, the Nor’ West trader Alexander Henry left Pembina after an eight-year residence. Another Nor’ Wester, Daniel McKenzie, occupied the post through ...
( Category: Americas October 19,2017 )
The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:August Kubizek

Incidentally, Adolf obviously signed the application for his sister Paula, for the surname ‘Hitler’ in both signatures shows the same downward-sloping tendency which was so characteristic of his signature in ...
( Category: Europe October 19,2017 )
We Are the Damned United by Phil Rostron
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Phil Rostron

* * * The greatness that Keane would later see in Clough had still to show itself at Leeds United as the end of August neared in 1974. On the ...
( Category: Biographies October 19,2017 )
Joseph Locke by Burton Anthony;
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Burton, Anthony;

Chapter Ten RAILS NORTH One of the problems of writing a neat, chronological biography of any engineer is that projects usually overlap instead of following each other in neat succession. ...
( Category: Transportation October 19,2017 )
Last Act by Craig Shirley
epub |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Craig Shirley

CHAPTER 7 ASSAULT ON JENKINS HILL “It enrages them still, which is why they’re so eager to diminish him, to peel him, even in death.” She told me that as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
African Nights by Kuki Gallmann
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Kuki Gallmann

13 Fifty Guineas’ Pike The seamed hills became black shadows … sounds ceased, forms vanished – and the reality of the universe alone remained – a marvellous thing of darkness ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 19,2017 )
Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
epub |eng | 2017-10-19 | Author:Miranda Kaufmann

Flushing, where the Silver Falcon mysteriously docked in 1619. Braems’s factor in Flushing, John Vandhurst, paid the customs required for the ship to be unloaded. Thomas Lawley, an English merchant ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 19,2017 )
Reba by Reba McEntire
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Reba McEntire [McEntire, Reba]

BESIDES VIDEOS, WE KEPT TRYING OUT NEW WAYS TO PROMOTE my albums. Thanks to Carter’s negotiating skills, I had an unusual contract with MCA that gave me a certain amount ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
Sam's Best Shot by James Best
epub |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:James Best

CHAPTER 20 The lake of stars The waters of Lake Malawi are plied by a single fifty-year-old ferry, the Ilala. Every week she travels north for three days and then ...
( Category: Historical October 19,2017 )
Edward VII: The Last Victorian King by Christopher Hibbert
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hibbert

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 October 19,2017 )
Queens of the Conquest by Alison Weir
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Alison Weir

1 “In Violation of His Oath” In the twelfth-century church of St. Peter at Tickencote, Rutland, a pair of stone crowned Janus heads on the Norman chancel arch turn disdainfully ...
( Category: Europe October 19,2017 )

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