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Monarchs of England by Dan Chalke
epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Dan Chalke [Chalke, Daniel]

No. 30 King Henry V Reign (and length): March 21, 1413–August, 31, 1422 (9) Coronation: April 9, 1413 Predecessor: Henry IV (father) Successor: Henry VI (son) House: Lancaster Father: Henry ...
( Category: Great Britain August 5,2023 )
The Diary That Changed the World by Karen Bartlett
epub |eng | 2022-08-15 | Author:Karen Bartlett

The Schütz translation of the diary would remain in print, as it was, for forty years, yet there’s little evidence that her appeasements changed many hearts and minds. Opinion polls ...
( Category: Germany August 5,2023 )
Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser by Raymond Lamont-Brown
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Raymond Lamont-Brown

The King is undergoing a surgical operation. The King is suffering from perityphlitis [appendicitis]. His condition on Saturday was so satisfactory that it was hoped that with care His Majesty ...
( Category: Great Britain August 5,2023 )
Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks by Giovanni Ruscitti
epub |eng | 2022-03-30 | Author:Giovanni Ruscitti

The winding road hugs the base of the mountain as we approach Pescocostanzo. Like Cansano, Pescocostanzo is over one thousand years old, rich with history and local tradition. Unlike Cansano, ...
( Category: Italy August 4,2023 )
The Real Gladiator by Tony Sullivan;
epub |eng | 2022-07-30 | Author:Tony Sullivan;

Conclusion A fitting way to end this chapter is to lay out the most likely scenarios for an historically accurate battle scene, as opposed to the fictional representation in Gladiator. ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2023 )
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza De Vaca by Andre Resendez
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Andre Resendez [Resendez, Andre]

THE CASTAWAYS HAD reached an agricultural oasis in the midst of a sea of nomads. The captive’s village turned out to be part of a cluster of settlements located at ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal July 31,2023 )
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest by David Roberts
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

ESCALANTE DOES NOT say whether the team thought the San Buenaventura was the fabled Tizón. But it was the biggest river they had crossed on the whole journey, bigger even ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal July 31,2023 )
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:Harry Sidebottom [Sidebottom, Harry]

Chapter 7: In Rome AD219–21 I Adventus Having spent the winter in Nicomedia (AD219–20), Heliogabalus ‘made his way into Italy through Thrace, Moesia, and each Pannonia, and he stayed there ...
( Category: Italy July 31,2023 )
Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom by Stephane Gerson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephane Gerson [Gerson, Stephane]

No single inhabitant shall remain: Des habitans un seul n’y demourra: Its walls & women, churches & nuns raped, Mur, sexe, temple, & vierge violée, All dying by sword, fire, ...
( Category: France July 31,2023 )
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

SCENE 2 Liberator CAST ALEXANDER II, emperor 1855–81, son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt), empress, ‘Marie’ Alexandra, their eldest daughter, ‘Lina’ Nikolai, ...
( Category: Russia July 31,2023 )
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions by Kate Cooper
epub |eng | 2023-04-18 | Author:Kate Cooper [Cooper, Kate]

In 385 and 386 Ambrose decided to provoke an outright face-off with the imperial family over who controlled the city’s churches. We have seen that between 381 and 385 the ...
( Category: Rome July 31,2023 )
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Collins [Collins, Paul]

On no point could he be made to retract or alter his claims. Ever. It was, he later revealed, a deliberate strategy: There was one maxim I could never be ...
( Category: Ireland July 31,2023 )
Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire: Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales by John D Grainger
pdf |en | | Author: John D Grainger

( Category: Rome July 21,2023 )
Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire by John D Grainger;
epub |eng | 2023-07-30 | Author:John D Grainger;

Domitian’s War Domitian attended to matters in Rome for his first months as emperor, including the re-dedication of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitol, burnt in the ...
( Category: Rome July 21,2023 )
The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
pdf |en | | Author: Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

( Category: Rome July 14,2023 )

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