Historical Biographies
epub |eng | 1921-11-15 | Author:Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943

of feeling and energy. But I had also another way of reducing my creative pressure. Occasionally, from sheer excess of emotion, I would burst into verse, of a quality not ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marcus Aurelius [Aurelius, Marcus]

28. Death frees us from the feigning of our senses, the tyranny of our passions, the vagaries of thought, the bondage of desire. 29. How shameful and absurd it is ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-19 | Author:Richard A. Lertzman

After being basically a joke writer for comics, Marshall also discussed how he learned to craft funny stories for situation comedies on The Joey Bishop Show. He recalled, “There was ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Michael C. Steiner [Michael C. Steiner]

revisiting pluralism and embracing black culture 10 Cultural pluralism reappeared in the 1940s as a capacious idea meaning many things to many people. Kallen came late to this widening discussion, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stuttard, David

Sardis: satrapal seat of Chithrapharna and site of the Paradise of Alcibiades. (Photograph by the author.) Undoubtedly, one of the main instigators of Sparta’s new hostility was Agis. His motives ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |pol | 2012-01-15 | Author:Michael Mishal Nissim Bar-Zohar [Bar-Zohar, Michael Mishal Nissim]

The leader of the small team that killed Zwaiter was an Israeli in his mid-twenties, David Molad (not his real name). He was born in Tunisia and emigrated to Israel ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

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: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six The Second Triumvirate “Make haste slowly.” —Augustus While Octavian was consolidating his power base and authority in Rome, it didn’t take Mark Antony very long at all to ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Leanda de Lisle [Lisle, Leanda de]

30 REVOLT QUEEN MARY SAT under her canopy of estate at Whitehall, a slight figure, with light-coloured eyes.1 Her cousin Margaret Douglas, and her half-sister Elizabeth, watched her from a ...
( Category: Christian Living November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Claire Ridgway & Clare Cherry [Ridgway, Claire]

17 - Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports During 1534 and 1535, and into 1536, the Boleyns maintained their strong position at court, and George Boleyn continued to be shown ...
( Category: Historical European Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six The Last Fascist Standing “We do not believe in government through the voting booth; the Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Unknown

6 REFLECTIVE PATRIOTISM VERSUS REFLEXIVE PARTISANSHIP JEFFERSON WAS CLEAR that the rights and benefits of citizenship come also with obligations. He was realistic, too, that partisan feeling was an inevitable, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Joel F. Harrington [Harrington, Joel F.]

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveller by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Dan Jones [Jones, Dan]

So England in 1215 was a land of many languages –not quite Babel, but certainly a place where men and women were divided and defined by the words they used. ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-01 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five Struggling for Power “The Duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine in the morning.” —Edward VI By mid-1549, Lord Protector ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 2,2020 )