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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Plutarch

He begat children against Apollo’s wishes.96 When Marcus Gellius, who was thought to be the son of a slave, had read some letters to the Senate in a shrill, loud ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
Nothing to Fear by Adam Cohen
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Adam Cohen

While she was putting her department in order, Perkins began moving forward on relief. There were about 15 million unemployed people, and the limited resources available to help them were ...
( Category: Americas April 1,2018 )
Lost Genius by Kevin Bazzana
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Bazzana

His two weeks’ work on A Song to Remember allowed him to put a $500 down payment on a house for himself and his fifth wife, Olga, on Wesley Avenue, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 1,2018 )
First Person by Vladimir Putin
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Vladimir Putin

Marina Yentaltseva: A woman called our office and said “Lyudmila Aleksandrovna asked me to call you. She’s been in an accident. She asked me to telephone.” What should I do ...
( Category: Russia April 1,2018 )
Ocean Devil by James MacManus
epub |eng | 2018-03-29 | Author:James MacManus [James MacManus ]

On one occasion, to escape a Japanese advance and to save a vital piece of machinery, Hogg swallowed his principles and hired a rickshaw. The combined weight of a hefty ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
Angel: 1089 by C.C. Bridges
epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:C.C. Bridges [Bridges, C.C.]

Angel 1089 Jeff didn’t answer. He bit his lip, determined to try a few more places before he’d have to rethink his design. But at every stand, every booth, every ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 31,2018 )
The Complete Victoria Cross: A Full Chronological Record of All Holders of Britain's Highest Award for Gallantry by Kevin Brazier
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Kevin Brazier

1916 Sepoy CHATTA (sometimes spelt CHATTAH) SINGH RIVER WADI, Mesopotamia 13 January 1916 He was 29 years old and serving in the 9th Bn, Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army when he ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides March 31,2018 )
Wellington: A Personal History by Hibbert Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-04-17 | Author:Hibbert, Christopher

Douro’s behaviour in his father’s eyes was particularly reprehensible. He was ‘very much disappointed’ in him. Ld. Douro went abroad with him this year [Mrs Arbuthnot recorded] & he thinks ...
( Category: Europe March 31,2018 )
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition by Michael White
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Michael White

And as Bruno concluded the recounting of this part of his story, his words trailed off into a heavy silence. The room had grown dark around him as his tale ...
( Category: Catholicism March 31,2018 )
The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2005-06-22 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Doctor Minor's sanity, or lack thereof, was never in doubt. He was never so ill as to be ordered away from the benign atmosphere of Block 2 and into the ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 31,2018 )
The Great Depression by Roth Benjamin & Ledbetter James & Roth Daniel B
epub |fra | 2009-07-21 | Author:Roth, Benjamin & Ledbetter, James & Roth, Daniel B. [Roth, Daniel B.]

JULY 1, 1933 I read an article a few days ago in the Saturday Evening Post describing the German inflation period. It is enough to strike fear into the heart ...
( Category: Historical March 31,2018 )
Four Weeks in the Trenches by Fritz Kreisler & Kerry Gene
epub |eng | 1915-03-31 | Author:Fritz Kreisler & Kerry Gene [Kreisler, Fritz & Gene, Kerry]

Enthusiasm seemed suddenly to disappear before this terrible spectacle. Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened. The silence of the ...
( Category: Historical March 31,2018 )
Four Weeks in the Trenches by Fritz Kreisler
epub |eng | 1915-03-31 | Author:Fritz Kreisler [Kreisler, Fritz]

Enthusiasm seemed suddenly to disappear before this terrible spectacle. Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened. The silence of the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 31,2018 )
A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal & Elie Wiesel
epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Thomas Buergenthal & Elie Wiesel [Buergenthal, Thomas & Wiesel, Elie]

CHAPTER 7 Into the Polish Army THE BIG SACHSENHAUSEN GATE WAS OPEN. Marek and I walked through it, under the administration building with its tower and the now-empty machine-gun nest ...
( Category: World March 31,2018 )
Small Memories by José Saramago
epub |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:José Saramago [Saramago, José]

I was never much of a fisherman. Like any boy of my age and modest means, I used an ordinary rod with a hook, sinker and cork float tied to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 30,2018 )

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