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The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Paul Strathern [Strathern, Paul]

17 The Bonfire of the Vanities PIERO DE’ MEDICI, now known as Piero the Unfortunate, has been harshly judged by history; and his weakness of character is said to have ...
( Category: Italy April 30,2016 )
Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires by Vovk Justin C
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Vovk, Justin C. [Vovk, Justin C.]

I send this message to tell every man how much we, the women of the British Empire at home, watch and pray for you during the long hours of these ...
( Category: Germany April 29,2016 )
Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
The Boxer's Story by Nathan Shapow
epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Nathan Shapow [Nathan Shapow and Bob Harris]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE CRUISE TO HELL (STUTTHOF) Our unpaid labour was clearly crucial to the ever-weakening cause of the Third Reich. So much so that as the net began to ...
( Category: China April 24,2016 )
The Court-Martial of Paul Revere by Michael M. Greenburg
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 23,2016 )
Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2007-04-21 | Author:Nancy Goldstone

Sanchia alt="image"/> Purses, symbols of money. CHAPTER XIV A ROYAL WINDFALL Beauty can be as effective a social or political tool as wealth or breeding, but it must be coupled ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )
1846686199 (N) by Lucy Moore
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Lucy Moore [Moore, Lucy]

CHAPTER 8 Mephisto Valse 1914–1918 IN LATE JULY 1914 they went to Budapest to introduce Kyra to her grandmother. From there they planned to travel to St Petersburg to see ...
( Category: Women April 21,2016 )
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Shapiro

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. To which Juliet replies: Good pilgrim, ...
( Category: Shakespeare April 20,2016 )
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:George Psychoundakis

1. To Africa, that is. 2. A party. 3. An old revolutionary song against the Turks, dating from early in the last century. 4. Good-day. 5. In this case, a ...
( Category: Biographical April 19,2016 )
The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Stefan Waydenfeld

A model of the log raft we built to leave Kvasha The Uftyuga River from Kvasha to Krasnoborsk * In fact, the author was born in a clinic in the ...
( Category: Russia April 14,2016 )
Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kate Hubbard [Hubbard, Kate]

CHAPTER 15 Henry Ponsonby: Private Secretary Whether due to the Brown effect or simply the passage of time, by the late 1860s the worst of the Queen’s grief had passed. ...
( Category: Great Britain April 14,2016 )
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair by Jonathan Beckman
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Jonathan Beckman [Beckman, Jonathan]

18 Questions, Questions 11 January 1786 A FREEZING ROOM in the Bastille. On one side of the table, Titon, still snivelling and tetchy from the cold that had delayed the ...
( Category: France April 13,2016 )
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII I rejoined the First Battalion in March, finding it in the line again, on the Somme. It was the primrose season. We went in and out of the Fricourt ...
( Category: Great Britain April 9,2016 )
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel by Margaret A. Oppenheimer
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 8,2016 )
Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

CHAPTER 9 THE COUNTRY WALK RECOMMENDED at the hospital had to be put off for a few days, for despite what was generally accepted as the collapse of the revolt, ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )

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