Historical
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-13 | Author:Simon Dixon

In the end, the Menshikov Palace was used to house theatrical staff and Catherine chose to build a new stone residence on the site of the burnt-out palace on the ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Marc Morris

The Great Cause Within a month of the close of the autumn parliament of 1290 Queen Eleanor was dead. During her stay in Gascony she had contracted a malarial fever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Manning Marable

Home from Detroit the morning of April 13, Malcolm barely had time to bid his wife and followers good-bye before catching a flight to Cairo that evening. He flew under ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Juan Williams

CHAPTER 22 No Radical SHOUTING INTO A PAY PHONE in a hallway at the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall announced the big victory to NAACP officials in New York. He had ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Paul Rusesabagina; Tom Zoellner

Having won that temporary respite, I turned my attention to another problem. I had to get hold of the master keys that opened everything in the hotel. These were the ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:Paul Rusesabagina; Tom Zoellner

Having won that temporary respite, I turned my attention to another problem. I had to get hold of the master keys that opened everything in the hotel. These were the ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Wendy Moore

When the general election was finally declared at the end of March, Bowes was summoned north to justify his woeful parliamentary record to the disgruntled voters in Newcastle with Mary ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jack Weatherford

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Thomas Buergenthal

CHAPTER 7 Into the Polish Army THE BIG SACHSENHAUSEN GATE WAS OPEN. Marek and I walked through it, under the administration building with its tower and the now-empty machine-gun nest ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-26 | Author:Julia Fox

You shall understand that I have submitted me unto the law, and so I am come hither to obey and fulfill the law. And so I can say no more, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Mimi Alford

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-21 | Author:Sarah Bradford

This altogether mysterious letter was clearly intended to be properly understood only by Francesco; for important people to write personal letters to each other was a risky business. Strozzi, one ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )