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A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Anthony Blond [Blond, Anthony]

CLAUDIUS Claudius had more than one reason for keeping out of the way when he heard that his nephew, the Emperor Caligula, had been assassinated, just after one o’clock on ...
( Category: Great Britain June 21,2015 )
David Fromkin by The King & the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt & Edward the Seventh Secret Partners
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:The King & the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt & Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners [King, The & Roosevelt, the Cowboy: Theodore & Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners]

17 TEEDIE IN LOVE TEEDIE’SHOME VALUES remained with him always. They formed a strict code. He believed in marriage, family, and monogamy. By temperament as well as by belief he ...
( Category: Great Britain June 17,2015 )
Blair Inc by Francis Beckett
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Francis Beckett [Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan]

Under the kafala system, Qatari employers can prevent their foreign workers from leaving the country or changing jobs. The rules surrounding the exit permit that foreign workers need to leave ...
( Category: European June 16,2015 )
The Soap Man by Roger Hutchinson
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Roger Hutchinson

6 WITH ME OR AGAINST ME Lord Leverhulme’s charm offensive on the island did not stop at Gress bridge and the school at Back. Within hours of his arrival in ...
( Category: Great Britain June 13,2015 )
Alison Weir (2010) by Swynford Katherine
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Swynford, Katherine [Katherine, Swynford,]

8 'The Lady of Kettlethorpe' Nearly five years on from the end of their affair, Katherine could perhaps view the prospect of John leaving England for a long period with ...
( Category: England June 12,2015 )
Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean
epub |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Fitzroy MacLean [MacLean, Fitzroy]

Chapter VIII New Horizons AFTER the kidnapping of General Zahidi, I settled down to the more orthodox task of assembling my new detachment and training them in S.A.S. methods. As ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
The Error World by Simon Garfield
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Garfield [Garfield, Simon]

Missing T A stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of my favourite childhood films, opened at the London Palladium on 19 March 2002, my forty-second birthday, and to ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
Charlotte & Leopold by James Chambers
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:James Chambers [James Chambers ]

In her isolation at Cranbourne Lodge Charlotte was at least allowed to see newspapers. She read that the motion had been withdrawn. The week went by. The sense of being ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More: 1 by Lacey Robert
mobi |eng | 2004-06-02 | Author:Lacey, Robert [Lacey, Robert]

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL AD 1170 KING HENRY II AND HIS CHANCELLOR Thomas Becket were the closest of friends. People declared the two men ‘had but one heart and one ...
( Category: Great Britain June 11,2015 )
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-15 | Author:Alison Weir

stature she was a formidable woman: highly intelligent, literate, strong-minded, devout and austere in her religious observances. She was the sole heiress of the Beaufort descendants of John of Gaunt ...
( Category: England June 11,2015 )
Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond; James Moore
mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Adrian Desmond; James Moore

10 The Contamination of Negro Blood America began haemorrhaging in spring 1856. As Darwin started writing up his evolutionary theory, Kansas lay torn between rival free-soil and pro-slavery legislatures, with ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
A Croft in the Hills by Stewart Katharine
epub |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:Stewart, Katharine

CHAPTER XI THE BIG GALE ABOUT the middle of December occurred one of those minor miracles, which are apt to be left out of a normally well-reasoned forecast of events, ...
( Category: Great Britain June 1,2015 )
A Cool and Lonely Courage by Susan Ottaway
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Susan Ottaway

CHAPTER 15 Didi Vanishes The day after Jacqueline had returned to England the Stationer circuit was sent a new wireless operator. René Mathieu (Aimé) arrived to take over from Maingard ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Charlotte Gordon [Gordon, Charlotte]

Suicide had become more than an escape from suffering; it was a leap into eternal life. Feeling firm in her convictions and holding on to her vision of immortality, she ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )

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