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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Norton Elizabeth
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

Thomas Seymour’s emotional state was not helped by the tense wait for news of his wife’s labor. It was the same for Elizabeth, whose health continued to be poor at ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Kublai Khan by Man John
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Man, John [Man, John]

III AUTUMN 10 BURNED BY THE RISING SUN ON THE VERGE of achieving actual or nominal dominion over much of Eurasia, having seen his commanders build and sail warships down ...
( Category: Political May 27,2019 )
Charlemagne by Fried Johannes
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-10-09 | Author:Fried, Johannes [Fried, Johannes]

Knowledge Concentrates at the Court First and foremost, however, the court was the place where scholars gathered to exchange information, knowledge, and ideas and to pursue their scientific studies or ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Napoleon: A Life by Zamoyski Adam
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Zamoyski, Adam [Zamoyski, Adam]

28 Austerlitz ON 1 JANUARY 1805 Napoleon wrote to George III using the address ‘Monsieur mon frère’, customary between monarchs, proposing a new peace settlement based on a division of ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire by Jaques Susan
azw3 |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Jaques, Susan [Jaques, Susan]

In addition to gathering the world’s finest art, Napoleon planned to place all European learning in a world library in Paris. His unrealized plan was to move the Bibliothèque Impériale ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity by Teitler H. C
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-12 | Author:Teitler, H. C. [Teitler, H. C.]

Chapter 2 1. CONSTANTINE: PLRE I, Constantinus 4; Kienast 19962, 298–303; cf., e.g., Neri 1992, Lenski 2006, Schuller and Wolff 2007, Van Dam 2011, Barnes 2011, Maraval 2011, Bardill 2012, ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor by Stephenson Paul
azw3 |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Stephenson, Paul [Stephenson, Paul]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General by Powell Lindsay
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Powell, Lindsay [Powell, Lindsay]

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor by David Potter
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:David Potter

Eastern cults The Romans also had the sense that Graeco-Roman culture was relatively young compared with the ancient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Tourists – including the emperor Hadrian – ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Tutankhamen: The Search for an Egyptian King by Tyldesley Joyce
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Tyldesley, Joyce [Tyldesley, Joyce]

Recent Examination Hawass’s team confirmed that Tutankhamen’s chest had suffered serious damage prior to mummification (or, less likely, during Derry’s autopsy) and that his pelvic bones were almost entirely missing. ...
( Category: United States May 27,2019 )
The Queen by Josh Levin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Josh Levin

Chapter 13 The Two Mrs. Harbaughs The top sanitation official in Oakland, California, said the six buildings owned by William Viera were “the vilest the health department has ever seen.” ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
Sacred Duty by Tom Cotton
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-03-29 | Author:Tom Cotton

The Rituals of Arlington These rituals begin not in the verdant hills of Arlington, but in the Memorial Affairs Section’s small office at One Legion’s headquarters on Jackson Avenue in ...
( Category: Political May 26,2019 )
The Impeachers by Brenda Wineapple
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

* * * — ALL SENATORS WERE to take the same oath that had been administered to Chief Justice Chase, but Indiana Democrat Thomas Hendricks objected to Benjamin Wade’s swearing-in. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2019 )
Jim Christy by Ian Cutler
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Ian Cutler

1 Jackpots, op cit., p. 127 2 Joe Nickell, correspondence with the author, May 1, 2015 3 Kathleen Phelan, “I am a Vagabond,” photocopy of undated magazine article sent to ...
( Category: United States May 21,2019 )
Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:John Guy

19 Assassination Two The day before Darnley’s assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember. It was the feast of Quinquagesima: the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning ...
( Category: Royalty May 21,2019 )

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