Europe
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]
10 New Heaven, New Earth In autumn 1504 Desiderius Erasmus was in Paris; as usual, he was broke. News reached him from England, where his friend John Colet, the ascetic ...
( Category:
England
March 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bradbury, Jim [Bradbury, Jim]
THE ROUT OF WINCHESTER There were two castles in Winchester: the royal castle, which Matilda had already claimed, and the bishop’s own stronghold, Wolvesey Castle, which has recently been reopened ...
( Category:
England
March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 1980-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]
Two days later, Peter wrote again: I beg you to do everything that can possibly be done without me. When I was well, I let nothing pass, but now God ...
( Category:
Russia
March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]
On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category:
Russia
March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]
JAMES II OF ENGLAND/JAMES VII OF SCOTLAND and Anne Hyde 1637-1671 The prodigiously buxom and flirtatious Anne Hyde was the daughter of Edward Hyde, a Wiltshire lawyer who turned to ...
( Category:
England
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 | 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 )
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, 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 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Marquis de Sade [de Sade, Marquis]
1. By point of departure Sade, always on the lookout for signals, or seeing them when they do not exist, is asking the marquise for the key to the code, ...
( Category:
France
March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Gyles Brandreth [Gyles Brandreth]
According to the ‘confidential’ paper I have before me, honours are given for ‘outstanding service (not for merely successfully filling a job for a long period)’; ‘it is unusual for ...
( Category:
European
March 21,2015 )
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