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Ever After by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | 2017-06-10 | Author:Anne Edwards

17 DIANA WAS GUARDED at all times by armed detectives from the SAS-trained Royal Protection Squad. Wherever she went, there had to be at least one detective with her and ...
( Category: Royalty June 11,2019 )
The Grimaldis of Monaco by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | 2018-02-01 | Author:Anne Edwards

Footnote 1The Communards (members of the Commune of Paris) had been formed during the Revolution of 1792 and had virtually engineered the storming of the Tuileries. The Commune re-formed in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2019 )
The Plot to Kill King by William F. Pepper
epub |eng | 2016-06-10 | Author:William F. Pepper

The Background Mrs. King led off the group of witnesses whose testimony provided evidence about the historical background and events leading up to the assassination. She set the background stating: ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Love & Courage by Jagmeet Singh
epub |eng | | Author:Jagmeet Singh

When it came time to consider universities, my school counsellor helped me put together a thorough application for a bachelor of sciences, majoring in biology. My goal was still to ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 11,2019 )
The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
epub |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Niccolo Machiavelli [Machiavelli, Niccolo]

CHAPTER I. WHETHER ABILITY OR FORTUNE WAS THE MAIN REASON THE ROMANS CONQUERED THEIR EMPIRE Many have held the opinion—among them Plutarch, a most serious writer—that the Roman people, in ...
( Category: Renaissance June 11,2019 )
The House of Gucci by Sara G Forden
epub |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:Sara G Forden [Forden, Sara G]

13 A MOUNTAIN OF DEBTS Neither Morante nor anyone else realized that as Gucci’s financial problems grew, so had Maurizio’s own personal debts, which mounted to the tens of millions ...
( Category: Rich & Famous June 11,2019 )
The Mathews Men by William Geroux
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:William Geroux

Just days after the East Indian sinking, Edna Hodges received a call from her lawyer. He had finally received a copy of one of R. M. Jenkins’s letters from Havana ...
( Category: United States June 9,2019 )
Frederick the Second by Kantorowicz Ernst; Jones Dan;
epub |eng | 2019-06-07 | Author:Kantorowicz, Ernst; Jones, Dan; [Kantorowicz, Ernst]

* The Hebrew scholars of Spain and of Provence with whom Frederick established relations, or whom he even brought to court, contributed rather to the astronomical and philosophical than to ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 9,2019 )
Aethelred the Unready by Richard Abels
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Richard Abels

5 Law and (Dis)order In a macabre sense, the Saint Brice’s Day Massacre is a reminder of the precocity of English royal government in the late tenth century. Æthelred was ...
( Category: Royalty June 9,2019 )
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, the African Written by Himself by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

_The author's disgust at the West Indies—Forms schemes to obtain his freedom—Ludicrous disappointment he and his Captain meet with in Georgia—At last, by several successful voyages, he acquires a sum ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 8,2019 )
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs) by Holland Tom
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-29 | Author:Holland, Tom [Holland, Tom]

4 Angelcynn One year before the great durbar at Cirencester, while leading his army northwards against the King of the Scots, Athelstan arrived beside the River Wear. Here he halted ...
( Category: Royalty June 6,2019 )
Cnut (Penguin Monarchs): The North Sea King by Lavelle Ryan
mobi |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Lavelle, Ryan [Lavelle, Ryan]

5 Into Realms Beyond Is Cnut in Hell? In a profound investigation into the motivations of an early tenth-century usurpation, the historian Geoffrey Koziol asked the same question of the ...
( Category: Royalty June 6,2019 )
Embers of Childhood by Flora Miller Biddle
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Flora Miller Biddle

Me in a watercolor by Madame Shoumatoff, 1938 In Aiken, fifth grade was harder than the previous year, but I liked the challenge, especially reading. Across from my bed was ...
( Category: Museum Studies & Museology June 6,2019 )
Churchill's Menagerie by Piers Brendon
epub |eng | | Author:Piers Brendon

F rom the lion rampant on the Marlborough coat of arms, via the lion’s roar emanating from Downing Street during the Second World War, to The Last Lion of William ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 5,2019 )
The Targeter by Nada Bakos
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Nada Bakos

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, was found guilty of crimes against humanity for the 1982 killing of 148 Shias in the small city of Dujail, approximately forty miles north ...
( Category: Iraq War June 5,2019 )

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