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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton
* * * THE MAN-OF-WAR'S MAN. In the calm clear evenings of June and July, when the heat of the day has been abated, it has been my custom to ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Alexander Leighton
FOOTNOTES: [2] Bamborough. * * * THE ROYAL RAID. Among the promoters of the wars and disturbances which so long ravaged the Border counties, authors have been anxious to class ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-12-25 | Author:Alexander Leighton
"Direr than incubus's haggard train." I had just looked my watch—it wanted now only twenty minutes of the last hour. The order for the friends to quit the jail was ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Alexander Leighton
* * * DONALD GORM. In a remote corner of Assynt, one of the most remote and savage districts in the Highlands of Scotland, there is a certain wild and ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton
* * * THE SURGEON'S TALES. * * * THE CASE OF EVIDENCE. The following narrative was given to me by the executors of Miss Ballingal, whom I attended for ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Alexander Leighton
"And at the Lord's house, even on Sunday, Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday." This parish is principally mountainous, and, consequently, pastoral; and the shepherds and sheep-farmers were, at ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Alexander Leighton
* * * A LEGEND OF HOLYROOD. Once upon a time, when a good story had not ceased to have a beginning in this way, there lived a person called ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Alexander Leighton
THE CONVICT; BEING THE SEQUEL TO "DAVID LORIMER." The reader will recollect that when he and I parted, at the conclusion of the last number, I had just intimated to ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Alexander Leighton
When last ye sprang from the daisied sward, Making the welkin ring, Thy lay the dreaming buds awoke— Thy voice the spell of winter broke— The primrose, on the mossy ...
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Europe
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Alan Schom [Schom, Alan]
Chapter Twenty-Five – The Marches of Empire ‘Your Holiness [Pope Pius VII] is sovereign of Rome, but I am its emperor.’ Napoleon’s return from Austerlitz had been triumphant. As he ...
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Leaders & Notable People
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Joan Druett
CHAPTER 14 Pioneer The story of Bully Hayes’ remarkable escape was broken by the Daily Southern Cross on 28 September, written by an editor who found the news amusing. ‘Captain ...
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Travelers & Explorers
November 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Godfrey Goodwin [Goodwin, Godfrey]
The Aftermath of a Century of Conquests Süleyman’s death caused concern to the Grand Vezir, Sokollu Mehmet Pasha, who concealed it from the janissaries until the heir was brought post-haste ...
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Middle East
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Victor Sebestyen
*1 Almost no contemporary accounts mention Inessa’s presence on the train and the Soviets later clumsily tried to censor the fact that she was there. Official histories in the Soviet ...
( Category:
Historical
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:David Stafford [Stafford, David]
Sonia Butt and Guy d'Artois on their wedding day, April 1944. SOE did not like to send married agents into the field together, believing them particularly vulnerable to Gestapo interrogation ...
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Military
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Thomas Weber
As Hitler had not managed by 1921 to charm his way into the houses of the rich and influential of Bavaria’s capital city, his route to success would bypass the ...
( Category:
Historical
November 15,2017 )
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