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Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-10-19 | Author:Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough [Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund]

Another history We’re familiar with images of the Norse sailing chilly northern seas under slate-grey skies, exploring wide, open waters, foreign countries, and empty lands. We read thundering missives penned ...
( Category: Europe December 31,2017 )
First U-Boat Flotilla by Lawrence Paterson
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Lawrence Paterson

At 1630hrs the available officers and staff of Brest’s 1st U-Flotilla mustered in the gravel courtyard outside their Naval Academy headquarters to bid farewell to Buchholz and welcome to Winter. ...
( Category: Military December 31,2017 )
1400069106Secret by Mimi Alford
epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Mimi Alford

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...
( Category: Historical December 31,2017 )
Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft by Roy Underhill
epub |eng | 1981-09-30 | Author:Roy Underhill [Underhill, Roy]

The two hoops that frame this egg basket are joined to themselves with hook-and-eye splices. Set one hoop inside the other and lash their intersection with long, narrow strips woven ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies December 31,2017 )
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-03 | Author:Nicolo Machiavelli [Machiavelli, Nicolo]

CHAPTER XX ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN RESORT, ADVANTAGEOUS OR HURTFUL? 1. Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects; ...
( Category: Philosophy December 31,2017 )
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2005-03-17 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. Job xxxiii. 29, 30. ...
( Category: Historical December 31,2017 )
1998 - About A Boy by Nick Hornby
epub | | | Author:Nick Hornby

TWENTY Will loved driving around London. He loved the traffic, which allowed him to believe he was a man in a hurry and offered him rare opportunities for frustration and ...
( Category: Humorous December 31,2017 )
Hitler's Home Front: Memoirs of a Hitler Youth by Don A. Gregory Wilhelm R. Gehlen
epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Don A. Gregory, Wilhelm R. Gehlen

A winter food source for us that is mostly ignored today is Viper Grass, also known as Black Root or Scorzonera. We used this weed in salads by washing the ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 31,2017 )
Open Secret by Stella Rimington
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stella Rimington [Rimington, Stella]

133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 In addition to the law, Antony Duff’s other great contribution was to secure Prime Ministerial backing for a new building for MI5. ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 31,2017 )
Captive: Captive Bk 1 by Parker Mayhem
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Parker Mayhem [Mayhem, Parker]

Ch 10 Skylar Roe The tension on the ride home was so thick Skylar was sure she could've physically parted it with her hand. It wasn't any anger or malice ...
( Category: Horror December 30,2017 )
The Historical Nights' Entertainment by Rafael Sabatini
mobi |eng | 2006-11-03 | Author:Rafael Sabatini

VII. THE NIGHT OF GEMS—The "Affairs" Of The Queen's Necklace Under the stars of a tepid, scented night of August of 1784, Prince Louis de Rohan, Cardinal of Strasbourg, Grand ...
( Category: Europe December 30,2017 )
The Indifferent Stars Above by Brown Daniel James
epub |eng | 2009-04-17 | Author:Brown, Daniel James [Brown, Daniel James]

At the lake camp, Christmas Day brought little cheer, little to celebrate. Just how much each of the families huddled there felt the bitter irony of spending Christmas in such ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 30,2017 )
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Vintage) by Daniel J. Boorstin
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Daniel J. Boorstin [Boorstin, Daniel J.]

This advertisement was purporting to answer a story in the St. Louis newspapers which had said that Florence Lawrence, known to nickelodeon fans as the “Biograph girl” (she made films ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 30,2017 )
Rebecca Skloot by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [Lacks, The Immortal Life of Henrietta]

With that paragraph, suddenly the Lacks brothers became very interested in the story of HeLa. They also became convinced that George Gey and Johns Hopkins had stolen their mother’s cells ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 30,2017 )
The House of Tudor by Alison Plowden
epub |eng | 2011-07-30 | Author:Alison Plowden [Plowden, Alison]

42 Katherine Parr, a portrait attributed to William Scrots. 43 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and brother of Jane Seymour. On Henry’s death he became Lord Protector for his nephew, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 30,2017 )

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