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Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers by David Cordingly
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Mihail Sebastian

2 The November issue of Der Querschnitt features a long essay on Mircea Vieru’s work, with photographs, scale models and reproductions. A special section on the Uioara project. So, success. ...
( Category: World Literature September 24,2017 )
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
epub, mobi |eng | 1958-01-02 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: Americas September 24,2017 )
A Country House Christmas by Phyllis Elinor Sandeman
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Phyllis Elinor Sandeman

Lady The children were rather silent at supper, Alethea a little weary, Hilda and Phyllis thinking of to-morrow night when they would not be sitting up here with Fräulein but ...
( Category: Memoirs September 24,2017 )
Stet by Diana Athill
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Athill

PART TWO IN 1962 I WROTE – and meant – the following description of the relationship between publisher and writer. It is an easy one, because the publisher usually meets ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 24,2017 )
Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom by Carl Crow
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:Carl Crow

XII Two missionaries and two soldiers “Each cup of wine and each bite of meat is destined from aforetime.” There was something just the least bit suspicious about the enthusiasm ...
( Category: Historical September 24,2017 )
Surrendered: The Rise, Fall & Revolution of Kwame Kilpatrick by Kwame Kilpatrick
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Kwame Kilpatrick [Kilpatrick, Kwame]

chapter 15 Controlled Chaos BY JANUARY 2005, I was at my lowest point emotionally, physically and mentally during my tenure as mayor. Too much work. Too many problems and lies. ...
( Category: Historical September 23,2017 )
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]

10 New Heaven, New Earth In autumn 1504 Desiderius Erasmus was in Paris; as usual, he was broke. News reached him from England, where his friend John Colet, the ascetic ...
( Category: Historical September 23,2017 )
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life by Shimon Peres & David Landau
epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Shimon Peres & David Landau [Peres, Shimon & Landau, David]

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: World September 23,2017 )
Livia, Empress of Rome by Matthew Dennison
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Matthew Dennison

We do not know if Livia was familiar with the example of Caecilia Metella, though it is possible. Among the causes of the outbreak of the Social War of 90 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 23,2017 )
Scorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Andrew Salmon

* For the day’s work, Butler won a US Silver Star; Denness, an MC. * Murray was awarded the George Medal for his actions that night. * The jeep was ...
( Category: Asia September 23,2017 )
Mourning Headband for Hue by Ca Nha Dror Olga
epub |eng | | Author:Ca, Nha, Dror, Olga

This chapter is the voice of a young man named Lê who hid in the underground shelter in Phan Bội Châu’s ancestor-worshipping house in Từ Đàm hamlet, on the edge ...
( Category: Military September 23,2017 )
The Nixon Defense by John W. Dean
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:John W. Dean

April 15, 1973, the White House Because the president had stayed up late talking with Bebe, he slept in on Sunday morning. When Kleindienst tried to phone him at 8:41 ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 22,2017 )
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHAPTER 16 “THE GREATEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN” The President was in high spirits in the early days of 1943. At midnight, January 9, he was set to begin ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
The Secret Life of Uri Geller by Jonathan Margolis
epub |eng | 2013-08-30 | Author:Jonathan Margolis

Uri on the steps of Pension Ritz, Nicosia, Cyprus, aged 17, just before his return to Israel. Cyprus was also, inevitably, the scene for other major influences to come into ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal September 22,2017 )

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