Historical Biographies
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Jeremy Black

9. From Napoleon I to Napoleon III, 1799–1870 In 1800, war dominated national attention, but vaccination against smallpox, introduced into France that year, may have been more significant. Within a ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

* * * British workmen and British ingenuity had accomplished a near miracle—the completion of the Inflexible, from the laying of her keel to sailing, had taken twenty-eight days. The ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

A PRECEDENT IT WAS, but hardly a solution. The decline of the Hounds simply made room for other thugs, including a gang of Australians known as the Sydney Ducks, or ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-02 | Author:Michael Burlingame [Burlingame, Michael]

MRS. LINCOLN’S EMOTIONAL FRAGILITY Herndon could have added that Lincoln placated his wife because he feared she was teetering on the verge a nervous breakdown. In 1862, after the death ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-02 | Author:Olivia Williams

These days London hotels are not so popular among Londoners themselves, but plenty of locals back then used the Savoy habitually. Many were angling to bump into people they knew. ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 14,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:From Russia & Love [Russia, From & Love]

Bond 5 - From Russia with Love Chapter Sixteen The Tunnel of Rats Back in the cool office, while they waited for the inevitable coffee, Kerim opened a cupboard in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 14,2021 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Keith Gave [Gave, Keith]

CHAPTER 12 Game-Changers: On and Off the Ice Detroit Red Wings television broadcaster Dave Strader knew he was witness to history in the National Hockey League on October 27, 1995, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-09 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

A cave near the pass Just before dawn, five days later BRASUS SAT AND tried to keep his mind clear of everything. That was never a good sign and he ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-26 | Author:Elissa Washuta [Washuta, Elissa]

My second week, I saw my first superyacht, the two-hundred-foot Lady Lola. While the big boat passed under my bridge, I learned from Google about its remote-control curtains, Technogym exercise ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-25 | Author:Leah Garrett

* * * On August 7 Manfred Gans and the Marines of No. 41 (RM) Cdo. were ordered to assist in the push against the Germans eastward toward the Seine ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 10,2021 )
epub | | 2011-05-13 | Author:BRAND, RUSSELL [BRAND, RUSSELL]

RUSSELL BRAND for this hospital lottery once as well, but I just used to give them the bare minimum I could get away with and keep the rest of the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 9,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-02-02 | Author:Njambi McGrath [McGrath, Njambi]

Baba’s Metamorphosis Baba’s business was growing rapidly, making him very wealthy. His friends became ministers and other prominent people, most of whom were farm owners in Riara Ridge and its ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 9,2021 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-12 | Author:John F. Carr [Carr, John F.]

II Kalvan was on the bank of the Harph, inspecting the night's haul by the Ulthori raiders. A good quarter of Prince Kestophes' foot soldiers were fishermen, and Kalvan had ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-09 | Author:Christine Leigh Heyrman [Heyrman, Christine Leigh]

* * * So many devils beset Elnathan Gridley. There was his disgust at how cavalierly Jeremiah Evarts had delivered the board’s decision, telling him that “I might feel myself ...
( Category: Christian Literature & Fiction June 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-17 | Author:Tucker, Phillip Thomas

CONTINUING THE PUSH TOWARD ODANAK, OR ST. FRANCIS Safely on the river’s other side, hidden in the timbered hollow, and still concerned that the enemy might still be in pursuit ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 7,2021 )