Biographies
epub |eng | 2007-10-09 | Author:O'Donnell, Rosie [O'Donnell, Rosie]

CHAPTER 9 The Sound of Color I paint. I started after 9/11, started numbly, mindlessly, driven toward the canvas, toward whiteness I could cover with color. And since then, I ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Loach

The king’s acceptance of moral responsibility presented here accords well with the pietistic temper of the Reformation court, which took seriously the medieval themes of mutability and de contemptu mundi. ...
( Category: Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Bobby Womack & Robert Ashton [Bobby Womack and Robert Ashton]

( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Kear

Le Château de Médan, 1880, oil on canvas. Cézanne felt deeply hurt by how remote their friendship had become by this time. He wrote to Zola on several occasions asking ...
( Category: Individual Artists August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-27 | Author:Charles Ross [Ross, Charles]

1 Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I (1956), 383–4. 2 Elizabeth Jenkins, The Princes in the Tower (1978), a sober account, summing up against Richard III; ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1999-07-10 | Author:S. B. Chrimes [Chrimes, S. B.]

1 On the subject generally, see Chrimes, English constitutional ideas in the fifteenth century 192–203, 249–53. For Fortescue’s assertion, see R.P., V, 239. 2 R. Steele (ed.) A bibliography of ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-24 | Author:Marc Morris [Morris, Marc]

8 Enemies Foreign and Domestic The fall of Ely in 1071 marks an important turning point in William’s life, and not just because it proved to be the last English ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Horace Kephart [Kephart, Horace]

“At thirty a mountain woman is apt to have a worn and faded look” In a climate where it showers about two days out of three through spring and summer ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-05-10 | Author:Ragnhild Hatton [Hatton, Ragnhild]

(i)Sardinia to be exchanged for the far more desirable Sicily. (ii)Charles to renounce, unequivocally, the Spanish crown. (iii)Philip to renounce reconquest of Spain's former possessions in Italy. (iv)Don Carlos's rights ...
( Category: Memoirs August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Levi Roach [Roach, Levi]

The ‘Palace Revolution’, 1005–6 If the Massacre of St Brice’s Day was meant to alleviate the kingdom’s problems, it seems to have had if anything the reverse effect. In 1003–4 ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Nicholas Vincent [Vincent, Nicholas]

4 The Worst of All Our Kings Tyranny Unmasked? Combining the tastes of Caligula with the morals of an absconding bookmaker, King John is popularly perceived as a monster: in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Chris Given-Wilson [Given-Wilson, Chris]

Nor was there any doubt about what Arundel placed at the top of that agenda; the outstanding achievement of his administration was the restoration of solvency to crown finance. Insofar ...
( Category: Memoirs August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-05-31 | Author:Bertram Wolffe [Wolffe, Bertram]

1 Stevenson, Wars, I, 151–2. 2 Ibid., 118. 3 Ibid., 109. 4 Ibid., 116. 5 Over two dozen examples of this correspondence are recorded in print, most of them by ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Edward Gregg [Gregg, Edward]

That night, Godolphin reported to the captain-general that the reading of his letter had only increased the queen’s uneasiness with the duchess: Godolphin suggested that henceforward Marlborough should write letters ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies August 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:David Bates [Bates, David]

A SHORT VISIT TO NORMANDY Although it is not mentioned in the literary sources, William and Matilda must have crossed to Normandy in the autumn of 1068 and spent Christmas ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 8,2020 )