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Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England by Wilkinson Louise J
mobi |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Wilkinson, Louise J. [Wilkinson, Louise J.]

8 1265 ‘the conflict of Evesham’1 In April 1267, Henry III wrote to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, ordering him to restore the lands confiscated from William de St Philibert, a ...
( Category: Europe October 4,2017 )
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Joe Jackson

21 “THERE WILL BE A BETTER DAY TO DIE” That night, a frigid wind blew from the northwest, bringing a light cover of snow. At Wounded Knee, bodies began to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 4,2017 )
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 by Ivan Maisky
epub |eng | 2015-09-23 | Author:Ivan Maisky [Maisky, Ivan]

5 June At last, Cripps’s fate has been decided! But what a story it’s been! It all began on 20 May, when Halifax summoned me and said that the Cabinet ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 4,2017 )
How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth by John Morgan
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:John Morgan [Morgan, John]

62 Sapeurs-Pompiers At 12.32 a.m. two Sapeurs-Pompiers – Paris Fire Service – ambulances (Nos. 94 and 100) from the Malar Medical Emergency Centre, arrived. Neither of these ambulances had doctors ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 3,2017 )
33 Men Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin
mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Jonathan Franklin

DAY 27: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 From a distance the rescue site at the San José copper mine looked like a construction site gone mad. Huge cranes rattled twenty-four hours a ...
( Category: Americas October 3,2017 )
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:David L. Holmes [Holmes, David L.]

The Universal Parent has dispensed his blessing throughout all creation. . . . [including] Christian, Jew, or Turk. What a lesson did the great author of our religion give to ...
( Category: Historical October 3,2017 )
Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by John Bloom & Jim Atkinson
epub |eng | 2016-12-19 | Author:John Bloom & Jim Atkinson [Bloom, John]

15 Interrogation “I did have an affair,” Allan Gore told Royce Abbott. “Oh?” “With Candy Montgomery.” Chief Abbott was startled, especially since he was hearing such news at 6 A.M., ...
( Category: Americas October 2,2017 )
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography by Mel Gussow
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Mel Gussow [Gussow, Mel]

11 Taylor! Burton! Lehman! You know who I’d like to see as Martha and George: Bette Davis and James Mason. THE first formal announcement was in March 1964: The movie ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 2,2017 )
Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins
epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Deborah Scroggins [Scroggins Deborah]

Part Four “They call it ‘my war,’ ” Man Gac told me, “that I brought it, but there was nothing that I spoiled, which I can find in my head, ...
( Category: Historical October 2,2017 )
The General by Jonathan Fenby
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Jonathan Fenby

III Suez and the Battle of Algiers It was elsewhere in North Africa that international attention focused on France. In July 1956, a desire to stem Arab nationalism prompted the ...
( Category: Historical October 2,2017 )
Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning by Elizabeth Sigmund & Gail Crowther
epub |eng | 2014-12-07 | Author:Elizabeth Sigmund & Gail Crowther [Sigmund, Elizabeth]

She also excitedly informed her mother that they had just officially become beekeepers. The old hive had been painted white and green and now housed some docile, Italian hybrid bees. ...
( Category: Poetry October 2,2017 )
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents by Cari Beauchamp
epub |eng | 2009-10-02 | Author:Cari Beauchamp [Beauckamp, Cari]

Gloria with her husband, the Marquis de la Falaise, on the set of Queen Kelly At the same time, RKO was looking at just what they had purchased in FBO ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 2,2017 )
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Penguin Classics) by Benvenuto Cellini
epub |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Benvenuto Cellini [Cellini, Benvenuto]

I went off to wait for this wonderful King, who had gone to take leave of Madame d’Étampes. She wanted to know where he was going, and she said that ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 2,2017 )
In My Time by Dick Cheney
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-02 | Author:Dick Cheney

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 2,2017 )
William Manchester by American Caesar Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
mobi, epub |eng | 1978-09-30 | Author:American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964

His first Luzon communiqué since the escape on Bulkeley’s PT-41 announced: “The decisive battle for the liberation of the Philippines and the control of the Southwest Pacific is at hand. ...
( Category: Historical October 2,2017 )

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