Leaders & Notable People
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Ridgway, Claire [Ridgway, Claire]

Edward V 1470-1483 Rule: 9 April 1483 – 26 June 1483 Marriages: Did not marry. Issue: None * * * Edward V was born on 2 November 1470, while his ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Norwich, John Julius [Norwich, John Julius]

‘The personification of the French Renaissance’: Francis I of France in 1530 when he was thirty-six, painted by Jean Clouet. The Emperor Charles V aged about thirty – the Habsburg ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Parker, Geoffrey [Parker, Geoffrey]

For ‘Lombardy’ – not for the Netherlands! Pérez advised this dramatic departure from the king’s plan because if, when Don John reached Lombardy, ‘the Low Countries are lost, or if ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Man, John [Man, John]

III AUTUMN 10 BURNED BY THE RISING SUN ON THE VERGE of achieving actual or nominal dominion over much of Eurasia, having seen his commanders build and sail warships down ...
( Category: Political May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Freed, John [Freed, John]

Frederick’s Promotion of Economic Development Frederick was not very interested, seemingly, in economic matters north of the Alps prior to his visit in 1165 to the lower Rhine valley, the ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:Lal, Ruby [Lal, Ruby]

Jahangir’s father had built a sturdy stone palace-fort in Srinagar on a hill called the Hari Parbat, overlooking the lovely Dal Lake, approximately four miles long and three miles wide, ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Zamoyski, Adam [Zamoyski, Adam]

28 Austerlitz ON 1 JANUARY 1805 Napoleon wrote to George III using the address ‘Monsieur mon frère’, customary between monarchs, proposing a new peace settlement based on a division of ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Stephenson, Paul [Stephenson, Paul]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Powell, Lindsay [Powell, Lindsay]

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Zig Ziglar & Julie Ziglar Norman [Ziglar, Zig & Norman, Julie Ziglar]

to make us more dependent on the Lord to help others down the road I concur with all three. I also found a great deal of truth in the acrostics ...
( Category: Religious May 27,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Psellus, Michael [Psellus, Michael]

THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE It was a marvel of beauty that Nature brought into being in the person of this man, so justly proportioned, so harmoniously fashioned, that there was ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-24 | Author:Joubert, Steve

* Lurking at the periphery of all I did, learnt and experienced during my military years was a paranoid terror of accidentally violating the Official Secrets Act, to which all ...
( Category: Military May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:William H. Mcraven

I pushed the phone closer to my ear. Our office in the Old Executive Office Building was a Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility (SCIF), which meant acoustics were terrible. “The triple ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars May 27,2019 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-03-29 | Author:Tom Cotton

The Rituals of Arlington These rituals begin not in the verdant hills of Arlington, but in the Memorial Affairs Section’s small office at One Legion’s headquarters on Jackson Avenue in ...
( Category: Political May 26,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Gates, Melinda

I Wanted It All these marks of temperament and background suited Bill for an equal partnership. Even so, I think we wouldn’t have moved very far in that direction if ...
( Category: Women May 26,2019 )