epub |eng | | Author:Jemma Hatt [Hatt, Jemma]

13 BACK TO BELGRAVIA “Where are you heading back to?” asked Reggie, warming his hands in his pockets. Theo answered with his address. “Oooh, posh!” cried Reggie. “I might see ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Napoleon Bonaparte [Napoleon Bonaparte]

A Relationship is Formed During the years 1794 and 1795, the period following Napoleon’s ventures into literary and political writing, he was to experience the love affair that would inspire ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca E. F. Barone

When one German unit couldn’t quite figure out what “Paula” stood for, the Polish codebreakers read in some disbelief the explicit definition: “Paula = Paris.” Hitler was coming for the ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Marshall, H. E. [Marshall, H. E.]

BACON WAS GENERALLY ACCOMPANIED BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE HOUSEHOLD, WHO WAS READY TO SET DOWN HIS THOUGHTS. He was not soured or bitter. "Though his fortunes may have changed," ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Marshall, H. E. [Marshall, H. E.]

CHAPTER LI Regent Albany—The Story of the Battle of Harlaw THE old King was dead, and his young son was a prisoner in England, so the Duke of Albany had ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-13 | Author:Tappan, Eva March [Tappan, Eva March]

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epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Synge, M. B. [Synge, M. B.]

CHAPTER XXIX The Founding of Quebec "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past." —T. MOORE, (Canadian Boat Song). WHILE Henry Hudson was ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:John Wilson

Turning Point—1933 … the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, INAUGURAL ADDRESS Roosevelt became president promising hope and a way out of the economic ...

epub |eng | | Author:Philip Freeman

Phineus told the Argonauts that if they would drive the Harpies away, he would tell them what lay ahead on their journey. So, the Argonauts prepared a feast and waited ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Alison Prince

9th October 1507 The King is interested in marrying Juana. Catherine is all in favour of it. She has started to think diplomatically now and actually consults Uncle Rod quite ...

epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Hoose

Letter from Kaj Munk to Edvard Pedersen * * * Kaj Munk Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, commonly called Kaj Munk (1898–1944), was a Danish playwright, poet, Lutheran priest, and activist. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-18 | Author:Jack Batten

From mid-December 1914 to mid-January 1915, the clinic hid ten French soldiers, survivors of the battle at Charleroi, and twenty British soldiers that fought at Mons. The escaping men were ...

epub |eng | 1999-03-27 | Author:Richard Platt [Platt, Richard]

The fish swam right up to the man and over his hand. Suddenly the silence ended, and all was splashing as the man hurled the flapping fish on to the ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

A SOLDIER OF ATHENS The ablest of the Greek generals was Miltiades. He determined to attack the enemy at once, and when his day of command came, on the 12th ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:William L. Shirer [Shirer, William L.]

One battleship! Was it the Bismarck? Admirals and captains went quickly to their chart rooms and marked the given position on their maps. So far as they knew no British ...