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The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Randy Shilts

thirteen Willkommen Castro “On this spot, four days ago, a young citizen was murdered because he was a homosexual” Ribbons in the colors of the Catalonian province, yellow and orange, ...
( Category: LGBT August 18,2014 )
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Gilbert King [King, Gilbert]

ON MARSHALL’S RETURN to the New York office after his travels in Tokyo and Korea, which had overextended his calendar and his energy, he resumed working with his New York ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 23,2014 )
Becoming Queen Victoria by Kate Williams
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

In November, Parliament reassembled. The Lord Chancellor declared in the House of Lords: “The manner in13 which her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has hitherto discharged her duty in ...
( Category: Great Britain July 23,2014 )
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent Bugliosi [Bugliosi, Vincent]

With respect to shots allegedly coming from the grassy knoll, where, specifically, on the knoll do the conspiracy theorists claim the triggerman was? The consensus among theorists, including the HSCA, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 20,2014 )
Elizabeth, The Queen by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

The Queen required all her female attendants to wear black and/or white, so that the vivid colours and embellishments of her own costume stood out dramatically. Woe betide the lady ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2014 )
The Princes In The Tower by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

There is more in the same vein, with the King pleading for aid against his enemies and detractors and, presumably, the threat of invasion from abroad. Then there is a ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
Henry VIII: King and Court by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

38 ‘Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!’ IT WAS AROUND 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

11 Shall I die without justice? ON THE DAY of Queen Katherine’s funeral, Chapuys noticed Henry paying marked attention to ‘Mrs Semel [sic]’ and giving her ‘very large presents’. During ...
( Category: England July 19,2014 )
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jung Chang

Mao found the idea of peaceful progress suffocating. A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action violent action and regarded permanent human snuggle as necessary for social development. His ...
( Category: China July 18,2014 )
Clive Caldwell, Air Ace by Kristen Alexander
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-14 | Author:Kristen Alexander [Alexander, Kristen]

EIGHT The Day the Planes ‘All Fell into the Sea’ Any mention of Spitfires at Darwin usually brings the sort of stupid response, ‘Oh yes, didn’t they get the hell ...
( Category: Military July 17,2014 )
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family by Higginbotham Susan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Higginbotham, Susan [Higginbotham, Susan]

to aid and assist us against the queen, her blood adherents and affinity, which have intended and daily doth intend, to murder and utterly destroy us and our cousin, the ...
( Category: Great Britain July 17,2014 )
A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
epub |eng | 1999-06-02 | Author:Malachy McCourt [McCourt, Malachy]

154 MALACHY McCOURT He was a lively lad, this Malachy William. He arrived with a great yell, I was told, and I know he didn't stop yelling for quite a ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic July 16,2014 )
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick by Lawrence Sutin
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:Lawrence Sutin

Phil was aware of the side effects of speed. In notepad journals of the time, Phil speculated now and then as to whether a fear of the moment was the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 16,2014 )
HATCHEPSUT by Joyce Tyldesley
epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Through her transvestism, she abrogated the destiny of womankind. She could thereby transcend her sex; she could set herself apart and usurp the privileges of the male and his claims ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State July 15,2014 )
We Two: Victoria and Albert by Gillian Gill
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-19 | Author:Gillian Gill [Gill, Gillian]

The Greatest Show on Earth … HE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE DID NOT SPEND THEIR WHOLE YEAR ON their private estates, and they had far less leisure than most of ...
( Category: Great Britain July 15,2014 )

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