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Anne Neville by Michael Hicks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Weightman Christine
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
Richard III and the Murder in the Tower by Hancock Peter A
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by Ashdown-Hill John
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses by Santiuste David
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by Cooper John
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Cooper, John [Cooper, John]

Reading this letter in context, it almost rings true. The Elizabethan age praised those willing to face peril in the pursuit of fame. Berden’s work was undoubtedly dangerous, and by ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments by Linda Neubauer
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Linda Neubauer

9 Divide the ruffle strip into eighths, and pin-mark. Divide the curtain edge to be ruffled into eighths, beginning at the top of the heading or at the lower stitching ...
( Category: Windows September 10,2014 )
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
epub |eng | 2005-04-05 | Author:Carson McCullers [McCullers, Carson]

That was how Miss Amelia was left alone in the town. The people would have helped her if they had known how, as people in this town will as often ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2014 )
Dilke by Roy Jenkins
epub |eng | 1965-09-05 | Author:Roy Jenkins

Chapter Twelve An Inconclusive Verdict The Case of Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke was heard before Mr. Justice Butt on Friday, February 12th. Dilke appeared with a formidable array of ...
( Category: Political September 6,2014 )
Mr Balfour's Poodle by Roy Jenkins
epub |eng | 1954-09-05 | Author:Roy Jenkins

X The King and then the People On Novemberc 10, the day of the breakdown of the Constitutional Conference, Asquith did not go to Sandringham to see the King, as ...
( Category: Great Britain September 6,2014 )
My Share of the Task by General Stanley McChrystal
epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:General Stanley McChrystal

* * * At 6:40 P.M., the skis of the Little Birds skidded into the dirt of a clearing four hundred meters from the house’s driveway. Before the helicopters rocked ...
( Category: Afghan War September 6,2014 )
Right Path : From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again (9780812996159) by Scarborough Joe
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Scarborough, Joe [Scarborough, Joe]

“As I began the new term,” Nixon recalled in his memoirs, “I had a sense of urgency about the need to revitalize the Republican Party lest the New Majority slip ...
( Category: Executive Branch September 5,2014 )
Grace of Monaco by Robinson Jeffrey
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Robinson, Jeffrey [Robinson, Jeffrey]

Midday Every parking meter in Monte Carlo is taken. In the summer, the public beach along the Avenue Princess Grace is packed with people lying on inflatable mattresses, or on ...
( Category: Royalty September 4,2014 )
Republican Party Animal: The "Bad Boy of Holocaust History" Blows the Lid Off Hollywood's Secret Right-Wing Underground by David Cole
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-18 | Author:David Cole

( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism September 4,2014 )
Beckham by David Beckham
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-02 | Author:David Beckham [David Beckham]

9 The Germans ‘Go out and enjoy yourselves…We’re a better team.’ It doesn’t seem to matter that soccer is a team game. When things go wrong, someone always has to ...
( Category: Rich & Famous September 3,2014 )

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