Leaders & Notable People
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-23 | Author:Douglas Brinkley [Brinkley, Douglas]

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jon Lee Anderson [Anderson, Jon Lee]

IV A great many changes had occurred in Cuba in Che’s absence. Fidel now had more political power, but the atmosphere was tenser and more polarized than ever. The agrarian ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Candice Millard [Millard, Candice]

CHAPTER 19 The Wide Belts BY ROUGHLY TWO MILLION years ago, humans had spread out of Africa and into Europe and Asia. Hundreds of thousands of years later, they migrated ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * XI INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS I began now to turn my thoughts a little to public affairs, beginning, however, with small matters. The city watch was one ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Andro Linklater [Linklater, Andro]

20 AGENT 13 REBORN NEW ORLEANS WAS WHERE JAMES WILKINSON had first transferred his loyalties to Spain. Two years later, it was where he had returned to negotiate his transition ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Ron Chernow

CHAPTER 21 The Enthusiast When Rockefeller receded from the business world in the mid-1890s, the average American was earning less than ten dollars per week. Rockefeller’s average income—a stupefying $10 ...
( Category: Invertebrates March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Richard Bassett

CHAPTER NINE KEEPING THE EMPIRE AFLOAT I would rather have three or four teeth extracted than go through that again. HITLER 1 On 19 September 1939, Churchill had recommended to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:David Nasaw [Nasaw, David]

Twenty-four THE WORST OF TIMES Kennedy tried to keep his spirits up, tried to control his rage, tried to look on the positive side. His family and fortune were intact, ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

12. Conspiracies Dominic Mancini left England during the week after the coronation, and his account, sadly for us, ends there. He says that, before his departure, the Princes had 'ceased ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-10-15 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

So how did Darnley die? The plot to kill him was masterminded by Maitland and Moray, Maitland being the active partner, Moray the passive one but the ultimate beneficiary. Their ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Elizabeth was passionate about the theatre, and actively protected it from the Puritans who wanted it banned. In 583, she formed her own theatre company, the Queen's Men, of whom ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

38 “Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!” It was around 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:George Konrad [Konrad, George]

I have presented these developments to give the reader a sense of the future trajectory of the man who sat to my right in the front seat of the car. ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

NOW IN POSSESSION of her kingdom, Mary could begin the task of governing. She had won the throne at Framlingham with a small council of her household officers, including Robert ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )