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The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by Guy John
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-10 | Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]

The Court of Philip and Mary Philip was accorded his own royal household. The queen’s household was located in what, during her father’s and brother’s reigns, was the part of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Ginger Strand [Strand, Ginger]

8 Out of the Blue Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, generous of smile, rotund of body, arrived at GE sporting his traditional fez. He was trailed by his brocaded, bejeweled ...
( Category: United States December 10,2015 )
Early Candlelight by Maud Lovelace
epub |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Maud Lovelace [Lovelace, Maud]

IV WHEN the sun swam above the Mississippi bluffs to warm a shivering world, Narcisse and Amable were gone. The last of the dancers had called out their farewells an ...
( Category: Historical December 5,2015 )
Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley
epub |eng | 2005-06-04 | Author:Lucinda Hawksley [Hawksley, Lucinda]

Lonely without Lizzie, Rossetti spent New Year’s Eve 1855 with the Madox Browns; contrarily, his animosity for Emma had dissipated now that she was no longer able to spend time ...
( Category: Great Britain December 5,2015 )
The Man With His Head in the Clouds by Richard O. Smith
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Richard O. Smith

Sinking in the Last Chance Balloon: Sadler’s Comeback A report in the snappily titled newspaper The Hull Packet and Original Weekly Commercial Literary and General Advertiser published in 1810 provides ...
( Category: Europe December 5,2015 )
The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

When he suggested having Mark, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve had all these women and you live with them and you say you love them and then come back after ...
( Category: World War II December 5,2015 )
Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton
epub |eng | 2015-10-09 | Author:Robin Dalton [Dalton, Robin]

CHAPTER 6 My grandfather was a quiet and saintly man, whose presence in this matriarchal house was nevertheless some restraining influence on the family dramas. He and I had an ...
( Category: Historical December 5,2015 )
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:John Rabe [Rabe, John]

15 JANUARY As is obvious from the letters that arrived for me yesterday from Shanghai via the German embassy and to which on 14 January I replied to the management ...
( Category: Germany December 2,2015 )
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Meyers, Jeffrey]

Photograph Insert 1. EDWARD FITZGERALD WITH SCOTT, BUFFALO, CHRISTMAS 1899: A small, inarticulate, ineffectual man with well-cut clothes and fine Southern manners. (Princeton University Library) 2. MOLLIE FITZGERALD, C. 1905: ...
( Category: Authors December 2,2015 )
Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Despina Stratigakos

Fig. 56. May 30, 1937, cover of the New York Times Magazine. On May 30, 1937, the cover of the New York Times Magazine featured a large and stunning photograph ...
( Category: Germany November 30,2015 )
Edie by George Plimpton & Jean Stein
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:George Plimpton & Jean Stein [George Plimpton and Jean Stein]

Edie and Gerard Malanga in the torture sequence, Vinyl, March, 1965 I worked on getting rid of characters. Andy had said, “Get rid of plot.” Of course, Samuel Beckett had ...
( Category: England November 30,2015 )
Washington's Circle by David S. Heidler Jeanne T. Heidler
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler [Heidler, David S.]

Newspaper and pamphlet attacks had stepped up over the summer of 1792. Because Hamilton and Jefferson believed the other responsible for starting the public phase of the conflict, each thought ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2015 )
American Hunter by Willie Robertson
epub |eng | | Author:Willie Robertson

As another hunter, William “Billy” Dixon wrote, “It was deadly business, without sentiment; it was dollars against tender-heartedness, and dollars won.” Congress passed a measure in 1874 to place limits ...
( Category: Hunting November 26,2015 )
India's Unending Journey: Finding balance in a time of change by Mark Tully
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 26,2015 )
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Thomas Evan
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Thomas, Evan [Thomas, Evan]

Like Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev felt comfortable around scientists. Awarded an engineering degree from the Stalin Industrial Academy, he was “very creative and curious” about technology, according to his son Sergei.21 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 25,2015 )

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