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The Fall of Boris Johnson The Full Story by Sebastian Payne
epub |eng | 2022-10-28 | Author:Sebastian Payne [Payne, Sebastian]

6. Drinks at the Carlton Club On Thursday evenings, after parliament has wrapped up for the day, a certain partying sort of Conservative MP heads to the Carlton Club. Situated ...
( Category: Historical January 1,2023 )
The Mad Emperor by Harry Sidebottom
epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

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: Historical January 1,2023 )
Darius the Great by Jacob Abbott
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jacob Abbott

THE INVASION OF SCYTHIA B.C. 513 Darius's authority fully established throughout his dominions.—The Scythians.—Ancient account of them.—Pictures of savage life.—Their diversity.—Social instincts of man.—Their universality.—Moral sentiments of mankind.—Religious depravity.—Advice of ...
( Category: Greece January 1,2023 )
Sophocles' Jebb by Chris Stray;
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Chris Stray;

161Probably a reference to, inter alios, George Macmillan, and to a meeting of the committee formed at the meeting at Marlborough House on 25 June to establish the British School ...
( Category: Greece January 1,2023 )
Crassus by Peter Stothard;
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Peter Stothard;

CHAPTER TWELVE The Nature of Money Aristotle had used the word economics for what in future centuries became known as politics. Politics was what Crassus’s tutor taught. Money was, by ...
( Category: Rome January 1,2023 )
Thomas Sankara by Ernest Harsch
epub |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Ernest Harsch

6: Development for the People Sankara’s vision of Burkina Faso’s economic transformation was a basic one: improve the lives of its people. When the US magazine Newsweek asked him how ...
( Category: Africa January 1,2023 )
Plutarch: Lives of Aristeides and Cato by David Sansone;
pdf | | 2015-08-24 | Author:David Sansone;

( Category: Historical January 1,2023 )
Napoleon at Peace by William Doyle
epub |eng | | Author:William Doyle

The mass of the armies was totally detached from the bloody events that unhappy France had been the scene of; it knew almost nothing about them, and he seemed to ...
( Category: France January 1,2023 )
The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry J. Shaw;
epub |eng | 2022-10-12 | Author:Garry J. Shaw;

The Destruction of Tutankhamun and Aye Though Horemheb had lived through the reigns of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Aye, he no longer regarded them as true kings, worthy of being remembered. ...
( Category: Middle East January 1,2023 )
St. Oswald of Worcester by Stephenson Brooks;
pdf | | 2004-08-26 | Author:Stephenson Brooks;

( Category: Great Britain January 1,2023 )
The War for Gaul by Caesar Julius;O'Donnell James J.;
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Caesar, Julius;O'Donnell, James J.;

1 Peter Green had fun translating Catullus 29 lampooning Mamurra (and Caesar): “O military Supremo, was this then your aim, / While you were in that final island of the ...
( Category: Rome January 1,2023 )
James V by Jamie Cameron;R.A. MacDonald;
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Cameron;R.A. MacDonald;

NOTES 1. Pitcairn, Trials, i, pt. i, 184–5, 190–1; APS, ii, 362. 2. The House of Forbes, edd. A. 38; H. Taylor (Spalding Third Club, 1937), 57. Lord Forbes was ...
( Category: Historical January 1,2023 )
William Burrell by Martin Bellamy & Isobel MacDonald
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Bellamy & Isobel MacDonald [MacDonald, Martin Bellamy and Isobel]

The Queen’s reference to Hutton as ‘a real museum’ would have greatly appealed to Burrell as it highlighted the status of his collection, now suitably housed in a country estate. ...
( Category: Great Britain January 1,2023 )
Egypt's Golden Couple by John Darnell
epub |eng | | Author:John Darnell

Some of the faces are so realistically carved in plaster that we would not be shocked to meet them on the street today: an older woman with creases on her ...
( Category: Middle East January 1,2023 )
Cleopatra's Daughter by Jane Draycott
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Draycott [Draycott, Jane]

Marble portrait busts of Antonia Major and Minor, daughters of Antony and Octavia the Younger. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / Lanmas / Alamy Stock Photo Regarding Cleopatra Selene, ...
( Category: Rome January 1,2023 )

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