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The Last Plantagenets by Costain Thomas B
epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Costain, Thomas B. [Costain, Thomas B.]

CHAPTER XXIX The King Had No Horses and No Men 1 IT IS generally supposed that Richard delayed in Ireland and that he lost his throne as a result of ...
( Category: Europe December 6,2017 )
The Last Patrician by Michael Knox Beran
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Knox Beran

12 In November 1962, James Baldwin published “Letter from a Region in My Mind” in The New Yorker. In it he told of ghettos where the wages of sin were ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 6,2017 )
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin by Ryan Cornelius
epub |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Ryan, Cornelius [Ryan, Cornelius]

The Last Battle Part Five THE BATTLE Along the first Belorussian Front, in the deep darkness of the forests, there was complete silence. Beneath the pines and camouflage netting the ...
( Category: Europe December 6,2017 )
The Great Influenza by John M Barry
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-09 | Author:John M Barry [Barry, John M]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR WHILE PARK TRIED to produce an antiserum or vaccine against the disease in New York, Philadelphia was already approaching collapse. Its experience would soon be echoed in many ...
( Category: Medicine December 6,2017 )
The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger

The expanse of the new nation gave parties another function. The thirteen colonies that had joined precariously to overthrow British rule were divided by local loyalties, by discrepant principles, by ...
( Category: Americas December 6,2017 )
Awaiting the King--Reforming Public Theology by James K. A. Smith
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:James K. A. Smith

Excursus: Common Grace versus Providence The upshot of this analysis and genealogy is to encourage a posture of critical, selective affirmation regarding Christian participation in the liberal state, even if ...
( Category: World December 6,2017 )
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 by Lee Hong Yung; Sorensen Clark W.; Lee Hong Yung
epub |eng | | Author:Lee, Hong Yung; Sorensen, Clark W.; Lee, Hong Yung

(1) The question of korean independence will have no occasion to appear in the Peace Conference. (2) There is no power in Europe or America which will be so foolish ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 6,2017 )
How Lincoln Learned to Read by Daniel Wolff
epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Daniel Wolff

HELEN It’s a classic American moment, a classic moment in American education. Helen Keller and her teacher are standing by the water pump; Helen can’t speak, or see, or hear. ...
( Category: Historical December 6,2017 )
Through Russia by Maksim Gorky
epub |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:Maksim Gorky [Gorky, Maksim]

* * * When, after an interval, he reappeared on deck, he was clean and dry, and clad in a cook's white jumper and a sailor's blue serge trousers. Clasping ...
( Category: History December 6,2017 )
The Quadroon by Reid Mayne
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Reid, Mayne [Mayne, Reid,]

* * * Chapter Forty Two. The Wharf-Boat. I now only waited a boat to convey me to New Orleans. I knew that I should not have long to wait. ...
( Category: other December 6,2017 )
Young Stalin by Montefiore Simon Sebag
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Montefiore, Simon Sebag [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART THREE When the luminary full moon Drifts across the vault of the sky And its light, shining out, Begins to play on the azure horizon; When the nightingale’s whistling ...
( Category: Historical December 6,2017 )
New York City Coffee by Erin Meister
epub |eng | 2017-12-06 | Author:Erin Meister

Portrait of Alice Foote MacDougall. Courtesy of Caroline MacDougall. The Cortille was MacDougall’s courtyard-inspired coffeehouse at 37 West Forty-Third Street in Manhattan. Alice Foote MacDougall’s Cook Book. The restaurants were ...
( Category: Americas December 6,2017 )
Heroes by Paul Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Johnson

The body part seemed so little to me…I had no idea it could mean so much to her…Quarter of a century passed before I found out how wrong I was, ...
( Category: World December 6,2017 )
A Short History of Decay by E.M. CIORAN
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:E.M. CIORAN

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: History December 6,2017 )
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:E. M. Cioran [Cioran, E. M.]

The man of the Rubicon, after Pharsalus, had forgiven too many. Such magnanimity seemed offensive to those of his friends who had betrayed him and whom he had humiliated by ...
( Category: Philosophy December 6,2017 )

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