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The Immobile Empire by Alain Peyrefitte
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Alain Peyrefitte [Peyrefitte, Alain]

This was not so much a report as a mirror held up to the emperor’s face, and Qianlong clearly enjoyed looking at himself in it. Two other memoranda were sent ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 21,2018 )
The Poison Patriarch by Mark Shaw
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Mark Shaw

* * * 14 Research by this author has uncovered no evidence in any investigation or publication indicating that Jack Ruby ever lived in San Francisco, or that he had ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 21,2018 )
The Rise of the Tudors by Chris Skidmore
epub |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Chris Skidmore

For the safety and defence of our kingdom of England against the malice of rebels and our foreign enemies who intend to attack various parts of our said kingdom near ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2018 )
Elizabeth's Rival by Nicola Tallis
epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Nicola Tallis [Tallis, Nicola]

CHAPTER 14 My Sorrowful Wife THE EARL OF Leicester’s primary residences were Leicester House, Wanstead and Kenilworth, and it was at the former two that Lettice spent the majority of ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2018 )
Shakespeare's Theatre by Richard Dutton
epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Richard Dutton

Musicians The King’s Revels list of charges of the house includes “music,” while (as we shall see) in the 1624 list of “necessary attendants” to the King’s Men musicians are ...
( Category: Arts & Photography January 21,2018 )
Inglorious Royal Marriages by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Leslie Carroll

PHILIPPE OF FRANCE, DUC d’ORLÉANS AND HENRIETTE-ANNE OF ENGLAND MARRIED: 1661–1670 AND ELISABETH CHARLOTTE von der PFALZ, PRINCESS PALATINE MARRIED: 1671–1701 Everyone loved “Minette,” except her own husband. What a ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2018 )
The Appian Way by Robert A. Kaster
epub |eng | 2012-01-21 | Author:Robert A. Kaster

Figure 11. Pillars at the Appia’s end, Brindisi (left) and Lecce (right) The towns and cities that the roads originally fostered mostly remain, in one form or another, but the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 21,2018 )
Henry V by Christopher Allmand
epub |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Christopher Allmand

1 M. Harvey, Solutions to the Schism. A study of some English attitudes, 1378 to 1409 (Sankt Ottilien, 1983), p. 196. 2 Cited by E.F. Jacob, Essays in the conciliar ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2018 )
From the Monastery to the World by Thomas Merton
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Thomas Merton

Letter 47 September 15, 1963 Dear Father Louis: I received your letter of August 1st with the copy of the latter for Cintio [Vitier], which I sent to him. He ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership January 21,2018 )
A History of the Jews by Max I. Dimont
epub |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Max I. Dimont

THE DIASPORA AND THE WORLD If Spengler is right in his prediction of the death of Western civilization within a century or so, what will happen to the Diaspora Jews ...
( Category: Judaism January 21,2018 )
Through the Embers of Chaos by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2017-01-21 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

The convergence in my life of the Chetniks and Ostrog Monastery was both unsurprising and confusing. Unsurprising because Chetniks tend to be devout Orthodox Christians, odd as that may seem ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 21,2018 )
A Place Apart by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

8 The War of the Myths I met Bill in the post office-cum-general store of a Co. Antrim village and he invited me home for a cup of tea. He ...
( Category: Specialty Travel January 21,2018 )
Barcelona from A to Z by Barrie Kerper
epub |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Barrie Kerper

Cava, and other wines Grape varieties grown to make wine include Macabeo, Parellada, Subirat, and Xarel-lo (these are used for cava, a sparkling wine made by méthode champenoise, which is ...
( Category: Food, Lodging & Transportation January 21,2018 )
Sullivan County by John Conway
epub |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:John Conway

The Hotel Wawonda in Liberty was the county’s largest and most elaborate Silver Age resort. Built in 1891, the hotel eventually boasted tennis courts, a golf course and a two-mile-long ...
( Category: Photography & Video January 21,2018 )
Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics by Hudecek Jiri
epub |eng | | Author:Hudecek, Jiri.

Notes 1 The article was, however, deemed unfit for publication in his selected writings (Wu Wen-Tsun 1986c, 1996). 2 See Dittmer (1991) for a survey of CPC’s distancing itself from ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 21,2018 )

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