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Frederick the Second by Kantorowicz Ernst; Jones Dan;
epub |eng | 2019-06-07 | Author:Kantorowicz, Ernst; Jones, Dan; [Kantorowicz, Ernst]

* The Hebrew scholars of Spain and of Provence with whom Frederick established relations, or whom he even brought to court, contributed rather to the astronomical and philosophical than to ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 9,2019 )
Aethelred the Unready by Richard Abels
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Richard Abels

5 Law and (Dis)order In a macabre sense, the Saint Brice’s Day Massacre is a reminder of the precocity of English royal government in the late tenth century. Æthelred was ...
( Category: Royalty June 9,2019 )
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, the African Written by Himself by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

_The author's disgust at the West Indies—Forms schemes to obtain his freedom—Ludicrous disappointment he and his Captain meet with in Georgia—At last, by several successful voyages, he acquires a sum ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 8,2019 )
Cnut (Penguin Monarchs): The North Sea King by Lavelle Ryan
mobi |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Lavelle, Ryan [Lavelle, Ryan]

5 Into Realms Beyond Is Cnut in Hell? In a profound investigation into the motivations of an early tenth-century usurpation, the historian Geoffrey Koziol asked the same question of the ...
( Category: Royalty June 6,2019 )
A Forgotten Hero by Shelley Emling
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Shelley Emling

Oddly enough, Folke and Himmler actually had quite a bit in common. Both, in spite of enjoying the outdoors and exercise, suffered from constant stomach issues. Both, while diligent, were ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
Ten Innings at Wrigley by Cook Kevin
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Cook, Kevin [Cook, Kevin]

TOP OF THE 9TH Due up for the Phillies: Boone, Meoli, Reed Chicago’s sixth pitcher was the one the Phillies never wanted to see. Sleepy-eyed with bushy sideburns and a ...
( Category: United States June 5,2019 )
The Targeter by Nada Bakos
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Nada Bakos

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, was found guilty of crimes against humanity for the 1982 killing of 148 Shias in the small city of Dujail, approximately forty miles north ...
( Category: Iraq War June 5,2019 )
They Bled Blue by Jason Turbow
epub |eng | | Author:Jason Turbow

Yeager’s defense—both his handling of pitchers and his arm behind the plate—was beyond reproach. The catcher had suffered a panoply of injuries over recent seasons, however, and his offensive output ...
( Category: West June 5,2019 )
Captive of the Labyrinth by Mary Jo Ignoffo
epub |eng | 2019-05-31 | Author:Mary Jo Ignoffo

Few nineteenth-century American women have come down in history as parodied and as fractured as Sarah Winchester. A woman of many paradoxes, the wealthy Winchester worked. She did not enjoy ...
( Category: Women May 31,2019 )
The Deer Camp by Dean Kuipers
epub |eng | | Author:Dean Kuipers

Animal stories had to save us. It was all we had. That, and hillbilly “hold my beer” stories about the neighbors. When we all lived in the big new house ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists May 30,2019 )
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to do this work which he did—that he did not suspect himself ...
( Category: Essays May 30,2019 )
The Black Heavens by Brian R. Dirck;
epub |eng | | Author:Brian R. Dirck;

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: American Civil War May 28,2019 )
The Professor of Secrets by William Eamon
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:William Eamon

23 THE SEARCH FOR THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE Besides being a wizard at making magical mirrors, Ettore Ausonio was an avid alchemist. As a follower of the alchemical doctrine of the ...
( Category: Medical May 28,2019 )
Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Amy Licence [Licence, Amy]

7 TROUBLE AHEAD 1468–1469 ‘Especially astute and cunning.’ I By the late 1460s, Edward and Warwick were set on a collision course over France and Burgundy. Edward may have been ...
( Category: Royalty May 28,2019 )
Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn' by John Ashdown-Hill
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

Elizabeth Lambert For the sake of clarity we had perhaps better establish that Edward IV’s last known mistress, Elizabeth Lambert, is the person who still frequently masquerades under the pseudonym ...
( Category: Royalty May 28,2019 )

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