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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza De Vaca by Andre Resendez
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Andre Resendez [Resendez, Andre]

THE CASTAWAYS HAD reached an agricultural oasis in the midst of a sea of nomads. The captive’s village turned out to be part of a cluster of settlements located at ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal July 31,2023 )
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest by David Roberts
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

ESCALANTE DOES NOT say whether the team thought the San Buenaventura was the fabled Tizón. But it was the biggest river they had crossed on the whole journey, bigger even ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal July 31,2023 )
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:Harry Sidebottom [Sidebottom, Harry]

Chapter 7: In Rome AD219–21 I Adventus Having spent the winter in Nicomedia (AD219–20), Heliogabalus ‘made his way into Italy through Thrace, Moesia, and each Pannonia, and he stayed there ...
( Category: Italy July 31,2023 )
Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom by Stephane Gerson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephane Gerson [Gerson, Stephane]

No single inhabitant shall remain: Des habitans un seul n’y demourra: Its walls & women, churches & nuns raped, Mur, sexe, temple, & vierge violée, All dying by sword, fire, ...
( Category: France July 31,2023 )
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

SCENE 2 Liberator CAST ALEXANDER II, emperor 1855–81, son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt), empress, ‘Marie’ Alexandra, their eldest daughter, ‘Lina’ Nikolai, ...
( Category: Russia July 31,2023 )
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions by Kate Cooper
epub |eng | 2023-04-18 | Author:Kate Cooper [Cooper, Kate]

In 385 and 386 Ambrose decided to provoke an outright face-off with the imperial family over who controlled the city’s churches. We have seen that between 381 and 385 the ...
( Category: Rome July 31,2023 )
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Collins [Collins, Paul]

On no point could he be made to retract or alter his claims. Ever. It was, he later revealed, a deliberate strategy: There was one maxim I could never be ...
( Category: Ireland July 31,2023 )
The Victorians: Twelve Titans Who Forged Britain by Jacob Rees Mogg
epub |eng | 2019-05-22 | Author:Jacob Rees Mogg [Mogg, Jacob Rees]

Disraeli: The OneNation Conservative Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804–19 April 1881), is remembered for many striking and wildly varying aspects of his life and long career. ...
( Category: Historical July 31,2023 )
The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret by Catherine Bailey
epub |eng | 2013-12-30 | Author:Catherine Bailey [Bailey, Catherine]

PART VI 37 It was first light on the morning of 27 August 1914 – the twenty-fourth day of the war – and Violet lay, half awake, in the master ...
( Category: Historical July 31,2023 )
Gentle Rain (Bb) by Unknown
pdf | | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Latin America July 25,2023 )
Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire: Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales by John D Grainger
pdf |en | | Author: John D Grainger

( Category: Rome July 21,2023 )
Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire by John D Grainger;
epub |eng | 2023-07-30 | Author:John D Grainger;

Domitian’s War Domitian attended to matters in Rome for his first months as emperor, including the re-dedication of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitol, burnt in the ...
( Category: Rome July 21,2023 )
Machine Head (USA) by Unknown
pdf | | | Author:Unknown

( Category: China July 18,2023 )
Kennan by Costigliola Frank;
epub |eng | 2022-10-20 | Author:Costigliola, Frank;

BEFORE MOSCOW, 1950–1952 Kennan’s troubles in Moscow came on the heels of other strains. Feeling increasingly out of place in the State Department, he took leave in 1950–1951 to pursue ...
( Category: Historical July 16,2023 )
The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
pdf |en | | Author: Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

( Category: Rome July 14,2023 )

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