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Anna Komnene by Leonora Neville;
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Leonora Neville;

FIGURE 7.1 Pair of Kolti with Sirens. Enamel on gold (5.3 cm x 5.6 cm). These pendants were affixed to caps so that they hung along the side of the ...
( Category: Royalty June 13,2023 )
Love and Justice by Maya Moore Irons
epub |eng | 2022-12-21 | Author:Maya Moore Irons [Irons, Johnathan; Irons, Maya Moore; Thrasher, Travis]

Along with the streak stress arrived the never-ending headlines and reminders of what we might accomplish in the media. “The legendary 88-game streak of John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins still looms,” ...
( Category: Social Activists June 13,2023 )
Camera Girl by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
epub |eng | 2023-05-02 | Author:Carl Sferrazza Anthony

23 MASSACHUSETTS October–November 1952 Worked on the paper [Times-Herald] all fall,” Jackie noted of her typical days in the months after Labor Day, 1952. “[I]t was an election year and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 13,2023 )
Bravo Company: an Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath by Ben Kesling
epub |eng | 2022-10-27 | Author:Ben Kesling

* * * The next time Armstrong pushed out a patrol to where the bombing happened, to show the Taliban that they couldn’t keep Bravo Company down, they saw pieces ...
( Category: Afghan War June 13,2023 )
Interpreting the Death of Edward VI by Kyra Krammer
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-10-30 | Author:Kyra Krammer

Chapter Ten Edward is Becoming a King in Truth King Edward likewise rode into London on 17 October ‘accompanied by the Councillors and all the nobles of the realm’1 in ...
( Category: Royalty June 13,2023 )
The Sniper by Jim Lindsay
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Lindsay

* * * It was a nice cool day, cool for Vietnam anyway, when Chuck saw a helicopter approaching the perimeter. Chuck was curious what it was bringing. Mail? Cigarettes? ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 13,2023 )
Black Crown by Clammer Paul;
epub |eng | 2022-12-17 | Author:Clammer, Paul;

( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 13,2023 )
The Queen and the Mistress: the Women of Edward III by Gemma Hollman
epub |eng | 2023-04-04 | Author:Gemma Hollman

7 The King’s Lover With the death of the queen consort who had been so integral to the country, the government and the royal family, there was no question of ...
( Category: Royalty June 13,2023 )
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-15 | Author:Edmund S. Morgan [Morgan, Edmund S.]

As to my situation here nothing can be more agreeable, especially as I hope for less embarrasment from the new minister. A general respect paid me by the learned, a ...
( Category: American Revolution June 13,2023 )
To the End of the Earth by John C. McManus
epub |eng | 2023-05-02 | Author:John C. McManus [McManus, John C.]

* * * The rhythm of this deathly close combat soon centered around repeated assaults by highly exposed, numerically small tank-infantry teams. No single American weapon on Okinawa was more ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 13,2023 )
Tito by Neil Barnett;
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Neil Barnett;

The break with Stalin Relations with the West and the US cooled off rapidly post-1945 as Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ fell across Europe from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 13,2023 )
The Dirty Tricks Department by John Lisle
epub |eng | | Author:John Lisle

* * * “Adrienne” was one of the few agents who endured even more hardships than Louis. OSS officer Robert Alcorn provided the only account of her harrowing story. He ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 13,2023 )
William IV by John Van Der Kiste
epub |eng | 2022-11-29 | Author:John Van Der Kiste

Chapter 6 Reform Proposed Shortly after Earl Grey took office in November 1830, a committee of four was established. It comprised two cabinet ministers, the Earl of Durham, Lord Privy ...
( Category: Royalty June 13,2023 )
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:V (formerly Eve Ensler)

VI FALLING My beloved friend Elizabeth Streb, a renowned action dancer, says: “Falling? Nothing else is that interesting—mostly because you cannot control it. Ever. Falling is the second after you ...
( Category: Social Activists June 13,2023 )
One Soldier's Story by Bob Dole
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Dole

Hi, Son, What’s this I hear about patrols and grenades, etc. Boy, we were sure sorry to hear of the mishap…. I suppose you’re backin a rest camp now. Where ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 12,2023 )

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