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Laurence Bergreen by Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

CHAPTER ELEVEN The City of Heaven So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round…. “WHEN ONE is gone riding for three days, then one ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 27,2017 )
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Corrie ten Boom

10 Scheveningen Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea. On our right rose the low sandy hills of the dune country, soldiers silhouetted on the ridges. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Joseph J. Ellis by American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

5 MONTICELLO, 1816–26 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —JEFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS AUGUST 1, 1816 I regret that I am now ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
The Listeners by Monica Dickens
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Monica Dickens [Dickens, Monica]

Jackie’s mother did not really believe in Christmas, although there was no doubt it was very good for business. It might be an old wives’ tale to suppose that Jesus ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich by Turner Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Turner, Barry

He held out the prospect of an eventual relief. Once the task of transporting refugees by sea from the east and accommodating them in Schleswig-Holstein had been completed, the situation ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Robin Hood by Unknown
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Unknown

"'Tis not free at all!" cried Little John, raging. "'Tis the most galling of service. Here I may not do this nor that. I'll stay no more in Barnesdale, but ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
How the World Moves by Peter Nabokov
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Peter Nabokov

39 Joining the Circus (1927) Suffice to say here that German Indianthusiasm is basically a nineteenth-century construct, an expression of colonial desires and fantasies, that it has escapist and self-aggrandizing ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 27,2017 )
Thunder in the Mountains by Daniel J. Sharfstein
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Daniel J. Sharfstein

AFTER A WEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS, Howard’s column emerged from the Lolo Trail on August 6 to good roads, grassy meadows, and a pleasantly sulfurous soak in the local hot ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
Anne Boleyn: The Final 24 hours by Marcella Mayfair
epub |eng | 2016-08-20 | Author:Marcella Mayfair [Mayfair, Marcella]

O death! rock me asleep, Bring me on quiet rest; Yet pass my guiltless ghost Out of my careful breast: Toll on the passing bell, Ring out the doleful knell, ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
Tales of Titans, Vol.3: Founding Fathers, Women Warriors & WWII by Rich DiSilvio
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Rich DiSilvio [DiSilvio, Rich]

While the majority of this tale is factual, the part dealing with Sybil's ride has been told over many years with limited primary sources and in various versions. It is ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
Tales of Titans: From Rome to the Renaissance Vol. I by Rich DiSilvio
epub, azw |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Rich DiSilvio [DiSilvio, Rich]

BRUNELLESCHI: Master Builder Born in Florence in 1377, Filippo Brunelleschi was well known by all Florentines, for he had invented the mathematical laws of linear perspective that the ancient Romans ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
Tales of Titans Vol. 2: From the Renaissance to the Electro/Atomic Age by Rich DiSilvio
epub |eng | 2017-01-13 | Author:Rich DiSilvio [DiSilvio, Rich]

SIGMUND FREUD: Psychological Sciences Sigmund Freud’s words likewise affected change on a global scale. Many forerunners had attempted to analyze the human character, such as Plutarch during the reigns of ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
Guderian: Panzer General by Macksey Kenneth
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-30 | Author:Macksey, Kenneth [Macksey, Kenneth]

The Drive to the English Channel Guderian thrust forward on the 16th with only 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions, leaving 10th Panzer Division and Grossdeutschland Regiment to the south of ...
( Category: Military September 26,2017 )
White House Confidential by Gregg Stebben
epub |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Gregg Stebben

CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY: THE DAY THE LOVE AFFAIR ENDED Today, as we all know, the Senate has one hundred members, but when George Washington was president, the Senate was ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Tavis Smiley [Smiley, Tavis]

PART II THE FINAL SEASON The Last Three Months Chapter Thirteen THIRTY-NINE The year begins ominously. The war is six years old, soon to be the longest in American history—nearly ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )

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