Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Bryant

TEN For the Defence: Marie Henein Marie Henein should have a comic book series done on her. Her Clark Kent nameplate says criminal defence counsel, but she’s a superhero to ...
( Category: Emergency March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Arnold Palmer [Palmer, Arnold]

Some would say the arrival of Jack Nicklaus in my “backyard” at Oakmont in Pittsburgh, two years later, was almost the match of Cherry Hills for sheer quality of drama. ...
( Category: Golf March 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William C. Davis [Davis, William C.]

When he decided to go for Jackson, Grant had sent McClernand’s corps to Edwards’ Station on the Vicksburg & Jackson Railroad, about twenty-eight miles west of Jackson and eighteen miles ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine placed this letter in a cabinet in her study and locked it away. There it remained throughout her reign, discovered after her death by the new emperor, her son, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Michela Wrong

11 Gorging Their Fill ‘He’s a menace to the donors, he’s the taxpayers’ despair, For the Treasury is empty–but Macavity’s not there.’ British high commissioner EDWARD CLAY’s bastardised version of ...
( Category: African March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-21 | Author:Pete McCarthy [McCarthy, Pete]

Patsy Cline is singing “Crazy” on the radio as I cross the harbor bridge and head northeast towards Louisville and the ferry to Maria Island, where Smith O’Brien was confined. ...
( Category: Travel March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:John Rabe

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: China March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Martin Allen

( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Idem tam parcus in aedificando, quam diligens in tuendo. Itaque non, ut ante, immanium transvectione saxorum urbis tecta quatiuntur. Stant securae domus, nec iam templa nutantia. Satis est tibi, nimiumque, ...
( Category: Rome March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Close, Frank [Close, Frank]

DAMAGE CONTROL Whereas for Gil’s friends in Abingdon this was a spy story come true, for others the implications of Pontecorvo’s defection were more serious. When news of Pontecorvo’s disappearance ...
( Category: Russia March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marnie O. Mamminga [Marnie O. Mamminga]

The Lodge Beckons 1923–1967 “This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather It was the heart of the camp. Low slung, dark and rambling, its ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:William L. Silber

The collision between Volcker’s tight monetary policy and Reagan’s budget deficit resembled cold war brinksmanship, like Kennedy confronting Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba.38 The stakes were not nearly as ominous ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Brian McGinty [McGinty, Brian]

Henry Binmore reviewed the developments of the first week of the trial in a special article for the St. Louis Missouri Republican. He thought his reporting had amounted to a ...
( Category: Americas March 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Next morning, in Austria, there were notices up in every station announcing general mobilisation. The trains were full of recruits who had just joined up, flags waved, music boomed out, ...
( Category: Authors March 21,2015 )