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Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte by Berkin Carol
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Berkin, Carol [Berkin, Carol]

Chapter Eleven “That Was My American Wife” While the debacle of Bo’s proposed marriage played itself out, Betsy began a peripatetic life in Europe, dividing her time between Geneva, Florence, ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Thirteen Soldiers by John McCain
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John McCain

PFC Guy Louis Gabaldon poses with a Japanese family he saved from mass suicide on the island of Saipan. CHAPTER EIGHT Lone Wolf Guy Gabaldon, alone and cave by cave, ...
( Category: American Revolution January 29,2015 )
George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier & Diplomat by Ridgway Claire & Cherry Clare
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Ridgway, Claire & Cherry, Clare [Ridgway, Claire]

17 - Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports During 1534 and 1535, and into 1536, the Boleyns maintained their strong position at court, and George Boleyn continued to be shown ...
( Category: Great Britain January 29,2015 )
Celestine by Gillian Tindall
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Tindall

Chapter 12 In departing for Bourges, Ursin Chaumette was very much a figure of his time, though not necessarily a laudable one. In France as in England, the idea of ...
( Category: France January 29,2015 )
Faith of My Fathers by John McCain
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2000-03-06 | Author:John McCain

III In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine” CHAPTER 14 ...
( Category: Political January 29,2015 )
Beneath the Sands of Egypt by Donald P. Ryan PhD
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Donald P. Ryan, PhD

Let it be clear that I am not advocating that the mummy in KV 60 is, indeed, that of Hatshepsut. Such an unequivocal position would be foolishly premature. The Hatshepsut ...
( Category: Egypt January 29,2015 )
Mistress of the Vatican by Eleanor Herman
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Eleanor Herman

Who says “lady” says harm. Who says “woman” says misfortune. Who says Olimpia Maidalchini Says lady, harm, ruin.12 On one occasion Pasquino quipped: “The Roman people are dying of hunger,” ...
( Category: Italy January 29,2015 )
Connections by James Burke
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:James Burke [Burke, James]

A painting (1438) of St. Barbara, incorporating the latest luxuries afforded by the presence of the chimney. Wooden furniture keeps her feet off the tiled floor, glass windows are backed ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Adam Nicolson

For these Puritans, and in a way we can scarcely understand now, the words of the scriptures were thought to provide a direct, almost intravenous access to the divine. Listen, ...
( Category: European January 24,2015 )
Wrapped in the Flag by Claire Conner
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Conner

Pizza and beer helped my attitude but did nothing to change my problem: Dr. Kendall did not like me. Ironically, my brother—as much a Birch baby as I was—escaped Kendall’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 20,2015 )
The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth
mobi, epub |eng | 1969-06-01 | Author:Frederick Forsyth

By the time they had finished the Biafrans had regrouped. Further north Achuzie with his crack 29th Battalion had been off on his own, marching 92 miles and taking from ...
( Category: African January 19,2015 )
JFK: History in an Hour by Sinead Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

But amid the optimism and ceremony on that bitter cold January day in 1961, neither Kennedy nor the US people could have known just how soon these lofty ideals would ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )
The True Story of Ned Kelly's Last Stand by Paul Terry
epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Paul Terry [Terry, Paul]

Gary Dean worked as a volunteer on the inn excavation. Although it quickly became clear that there was no cellar under the front rooms of the inn, he began to ...
( Category: True Crime January 18,2015 )
The Queen: History in an Hour by Sinead Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

Settling into a Routine Aside from the sometimes fractious relationship with Margaret, and in stark contrast to the beginning of her reign, the latter years of 1950s were relatively free ...
( Category: Great Britain January 18,2015 )
The Other Two by Edith Wharton
mobi | | 2010-11-22 | Author:Edith Wharton

IV "Mr Waythorn, I don't like that French governess of Lily's." Haskett, subdued and apologetic, stood before Waythorn in the library, revolving his shabby hat in his hand. Waythorn, surprised ...
( Category: Short Stories January 17,2015 )

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