Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Joann Fletcher

PART FIVE Chapter 9 The Inimitable Life: Antonius and Conspicuous Consumption In 41 BC Marcus Antonius, Triumvir, Imperator and victor of Philippi, requested the presence of the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra ...
( Category: Middle East March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Lev [Lev, Elizabeth]

14. BLINDED BY LOVE AS CATERINA CONTINUED her affair with Giacomo Feo, the political landscape in Italy was altering dramatically and dangerously. The distractions of her private life would blind ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Beau Riffenburgh

CHAPTER 20 BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN From the moment news of Steunenberg’s killing was made public, it was of huge national interest to a press and readership not yet fully ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-11-07 | Author:Vikram Seth [Seth, Vikram]

10.22 Rasheed was indeed in worse trouble than he imagined, but it was the next evening that he found out about it. When, after an almost sleepless night, Maan had ...
( Category: Indian March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Greg Merritt [Merritt, Greg]

After Arbuckle’s testimony and over the prosecution’s objection, the deposition of Dr. Maurice Rosenberg was read into the record. (He had been interviewed by defense attorney Brennan in Chicago.) Rosenberg ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Milford

Scott was having none of it. He scored sections of the first paragraph in red pencil and made a note to himself in the margin: “This is an evasion. All ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Anne Somerset [Somerset, Anne]

The Whigs hoped to receive some redress when a new Bishop of Exeter was named, and after the Bishop of Chester died in early 1707 they assumed that he too ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

Chapter 10 “Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest” Unbridled Partisan Warfare It is not likely that Jefferson thought the bank would be the final peg in Hamilton’s program. Washington, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tom Philbin [Philbin, Tom]

In the Author’s Opinion As an ex-paratrooper, I believe that Cooper did not survive the jump. For one thing, he exited the aircraft when it was going 200 miles an ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Berger, Glen [Berger, Glen]

11 * * * Breakdowns Spectacular, innovative and interesting things are happening at Broadway’s newly renamed Foxwoods Theatre . . . Taymor is very close to a finished product that ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Bob Spitz [SPITZ, BOB]

The premiere of A Hard Day’s Night wasn’t expected to be normal, even by movie-gala standards. By 7:30, an hour before curtain, the streets around Piccadilly Circus were jammed by ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Jacob Glatstein [Glatstein, Jacob]

2 People were streaming toward the park from every direction. They walked with controlled impatience, as though restrained by propriety from actually running. They were just able to keep from ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Ray Black

John F. Kennedy The assassination of John F. Kennedy is probably the most controversial case in the modern history of the United States. The question has frequently been asked – ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:David Bodanis [Bodanis, David]

17 Frederick FLANDERS AND PRUSSIA, 1740–1741 In June 1740 Frederick's father did finally die, which meant that the young, timid Frederick was now king, and Voltaire could begin his plan. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )