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The End of Youth by Robert Gibson
epub |eng | 2007-08-01 | Author:Robert Gibson [Gibson, Robert]

In the autumn of 1910, after yet another sequence in the now established pattern of acrimonious separation, passionate reconciliation and a further bitter quarrel, Fournier confessed to his sister: As ...
( Category: France September 22,2022 )
Benjamin Franklin in London by Goodwin George
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Goodwin, George [Goodwin, George]

By 1769 Grafton was certainly not a Chathamite. Most of the Chathamites, marshalled by Shelburne, were in concerted opposition along with the followers of Rockingham and Grenville. Grafton had turned ...
( Category: Great Britain September 20,2022 )
Hakluyt's Promise by Mancall Peter C
epub |eng | 2007-09-15 | Author:Mancall, Peter C. [Mancall, Peter C.]

The town of Secota (or Secotan), as depicted in Thomas Harriot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Frankfurt, 1590). Theodor de Bry’s engraving of ...
( Category: Great Britain September 20,2022 )
Peter the Great: A Biography by Lindsey Hughes
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Lindsey Hughes [Hughes, Lindsey]

Statutes and regulations Peter spent the first two months of 1720 in St Petersburg in a frenetic round of Yuletide visitations and assemblies – Dolgoruky's on 14 January, Golitsyn's on ...
( Category: Russia September 20,2022 )
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison
epub |eng | 2022-08-04 | Author:Matthew Dennison [Dennison, Matthew]

* Absent parents fill Roald’s fiction: a mother or father dead, or, like the Wormwoods in Matilda and Billy’s mother in The Minpins, uninterested in their children, or otherwise preoccupied, ...
( Category: Great Britain September 19,2022 )
The Lives of the Greek Poets by Mary R. Lefkowitz;
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Mary R. Lefkowitz; [Lefkowitz;, Mary R.]

Chapter 11 Hellenistic Poets Much of the Greek poetry composed after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. has a retrospective and reflective character. Even as they created ...
( Category: Greece September 19,2022 )
The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator by McHugh John S
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:McHugh, John S [McHugh, John S]

Chapter Six Nemesis: The Fall of Cleander (190 AD) The various measures and precautions made by Cleander failed to alleviate the shortage of grain. Unrest in Africa had already effected ...
( Category: Rome September 19,2022 )
King of the World by Matt Waters
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Matt Waters [Waters, Matt]

The usual caveats must be recalled about the transmission (i.e., accuracy) of this material in the ancient sources, but the passage contains much of interest. The emphasis on the tomb’s ...
( Category: Greece September 19,2022 )
Unframed Originals by W. S. Merwin
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:W. S. Merwin [Merwin, W. S.]

Hotel IN a top floor apartment thousands of miles from here, put away out of the light, there is a small collection of yellow postcards, textured like linen in another ...
( Category: Great Britain September 19,2022 )
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century by Klemens von Klemperer
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Klemens von Klemperer [Klemperer, Klemens von]

Chapter Seven “Mit dem Gesicht nach Deutschland” In the late summer of 1973, my family and I resumed our Wanderschaft. Much academic research involves wandering from place to place, collecting ...
( Category: Germany September 17,2022 )
Leadership & Strategy: Lessons From Alexander The Great by Leandro Martino
pdf | | 2008-02-14 | Author:Leandro Martino [Martino, Leandro]

( Category: Greece September 10,2022 )
The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Natalie R. Tomas
pdf | | 2017-07-05 | Author:Natalie R. Tomas [Tomas, Natalie R.]

( Category: Italy September 10,2022 )
The typical-state paradox (2016) by Unknown
pdf | | 2016-01-14 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Great Britain September 3,2022 )
Landlords and Peasants, Masters and Slaves: Class Relations in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Landlords & Peasants Masters & Slaves. Class Relations in Greek & Roman Antiquity
pdf | | 2011-05-19 | Author:Landlords & Peasants, Masters & Slaves. Class Relations in Greek & Roman Antiquity

( Category: Germany September 2,2022 )
Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope SUSAN WEISSMAN by Victor Serge. The Course Is Set on Hope SUSAN WEISSMAN
pdf | | 2011-05-19 | Author:Victor Serge. The Course Is Set on Hope SUSAN WEISSMAN

( Category: France September 2,2022 )

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