Historical
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Marquis de Sade [de Sade, Marquis]

1. By point of departure Sade, always on the lookout for signals, or seeing them when they do not exist, is asking the marquise for the key to the code, ...
( Category: France March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thom Hatch

Fourteen Bodies on the Field It had been at about 9:00 on the morning of June 27 while leading an advance guard of mounted infantry attached to the Montana Column ...
( Category: United States March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Gyles Brandreth [Gyles Brandreth]

According to the ‘confidential’ paper I have before me, honours are given for ‘outstanding service (not for merely successfully filling a job for a long period)’; ‘it is unusual for ...
( Category: European March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince [Porter, Darwin]

Reagan gave Jane permission to “date” handsome Van Johnson, with his clean-cut boy-next-door look. Perhaps Van’s gender preference for men reassured everyone that he wouldn’t pose any serious threat to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Notes Abbreviations CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3. 2. ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Chapter 7 ‘SHE SEEMETH TO BE VERY EARNESTLY BENT TO PROCEED’ 1581–4 ‘I content myself, Monsieur, that you assure yourself of me as of the most faithful friend that ever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Martha Hodes [Hodes, Martha]

Jefferson Davis, dressed in hoopskirt and military boots, hangs above an open grave. This 1865 cartoon lithograph, entitled “Freedom’s Immortal Triumph!” and “Finale of the ‘Jeff Davis Die-Nasty,’” shows a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Niccolò Capponi [Capponi, Niccolò]

This negative portrait notwithstanding, Machiavelli believed that the French would eventually prevail in the Italian struggle. France was the strongest country in Europe: “There is no ruler capable of confronting ...
( Category: Italy March 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Joan Mellen [Mellen, Joan]

RABBI 23 It’s a big operation. It’s predictable that a little bit of it would come up here and there. —Jim Garrison How many more Oswalds did they have out ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Raman, B. [Raman, B.]

CHAPTER XIV Geneva And Bofors I was posted in Geneva as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN organizations based in Geneva from April 1985 to ...
( Category: Reference March 16,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Forrest Carter

The cabin looked crazy and tilted when I run into the clearing, and I tried to yell for Granma … but nothing would come out. I fell through the kitchen ...
( Category: Biographical March 16,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

He and Monod had a lot to talk about. CHAPTER 20 ON THE SAME PATH A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2015 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-10-22 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

The Great Raid on Russia and its crucial encounter on the Kalka river had extraordinary consequences. As the Mongols rode back to rejoin Genghis on the Irtish river, they brought ...
( Category: China March 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

The day when the people of the United States were called upon to perform the painful duty of showing the last honors to the assassinated Chief Magistrate, was the gloomiest ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Russell, Bertrand [Russell, Bertrand]

MEMORANDUM ON THE BOXER INDEMNITY by Bertrand Russell The Boxer Indemnity Bill, now in Committee, provides that what remains unpaid of the Boxer Indemnity shall be spent on purposes to ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2015 )