Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Mortenson

CHAPTER 10 Sarfraz’s Promise Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Sun Also Rises Two sisters in UNHCR earthquake refugee camp, Pakistan While ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

15 A settlement of the nation He proposed to them, That the old King being dead, and his son being defeated, it was necessary to come to a Settlement of ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-24 | Author:Wolfgang W. E. Samuel

American and British RB-45C air crew and technicians, RAF Sculthorpe, 1952. Sam Myers is front right. H. Myers. Hack Mixson explained that “we rotated the three 91st Wing squadrons into ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isabel de Madariaga [Madariaga, Isabel de]

But Viskovaty and Funikov were not the only targets.48 The heads of many other prikazy such as the prikaz of landed estates (Pomest'nyi), the principal office of revenue (Bol'shoi Prikaz), ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Hibbert, Christopher [Hibbert, Christopher]

— CHAPTER 17 — Duke of the Romagna ‘FROM ALL PARTS COME REPORTS OF THE ILL INTENTIONS OF THE POPE AND THE DUKE’ CESARE RODE OUT OF ROME on October ...
( Category: Italy March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Figes, Orlando [Figes, Orlando]

Five days later, Sveta had not yet left Moscow. There were difficulties getting train tickets (not uncommon in the Soviet Union, where people queued for days at ticket-offices). ‘Goodness knows ...
( Category: Russia March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:Parker, Sachi [Parker, Sachi]

Chapter 9 La Vie Bohème After four years at Qantas, it was time for a change. I can cite no particular deciding factor in this—not the apparition of Luke, nor ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Troy Jackson [Jackson, Troy]

With any growing organization emerging quickly in response to a specific challenge, infrastructure often lags. A lack of clear organization policies and guidelines did allow for MIA monies to be ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alison Weir

15 ‘A Great and Strong Labour’d Woman’ ‘The Queen’, wrote a Paston correspondent, ‘is a great and strong labour’d woman, for she spareth no pain to sue her things to ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs [Sachs, Jeffrey D.]

Kennedy then turned to the last point. “Fourth and finally, this treaty can limit the nuclear arms race in ways which, on balance, will strengthen our Nation’s security far more ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:KIM MACQUARRIE [MACQUARRIE, KIM]

When Rui Díaz arrived where Manco Inca was, he [Manco] received him very well … and he kept him [Díaz] with him for two days. And on the third day ...
( Category: Incan March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

10 PRINCESS MARY & THE QUEEN’S AUNTS As the queen, Anne was placed in charge of arranging the household of her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as well as the arrangements made ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Harlow Unger [Unger, Harlow]

Two weeks later, having put his papers in order and received word of his promotion to the London embassy, John Quincy set out for Paris to await Louisa and his ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax [Wax, Madame Tussaud: A Life in]

10 Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London ONE OF PHILIPSTAL’S programmes of entertainment in London was entitled ‘A Magical Deception’. But unfortunately it was not just on stage that ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )