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Haunted Barnsley by Richard Bramall
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Richard Bramall

A plug, similar to one that was seen spinning. (Authors’ collection) With the increase in activity, the dog’s behaviour became more erratic; it barked and growled at thin air, becoming ...
( Category: History January 12,2023 )
The Relations of the United States and Spain by French Ensor Chadwick
epub |eng | | Author:French Ensor Chadwick [Chadwick, French Ensor]

On November 13 General Sickles wrote Mr. Fish that the minister of state had said at their interview that a partial report of the incidents attending the capture of the ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2023 )
The Graveyard of the Pacific by Anthony Dalton
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Anthony Dalton

SS Valencia ran out of sea room in January 1906. Instead of cruising through Juan de Fuca Strait, she crashed into the rocky shore of Vancouver Island with a huge ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica January 12,2023 )
Haunted Wigan by Sarah Carberry
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Sarah Carberry

The inn where George Lyon’s body was laid out. George’s ghost has been seen many times over the past 200 years. He has been witnessed on horseback galloping through Billinge ...
( Category: History January 12,2023 )
The Little Book of Oxfordshire by Paul Sullivan
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Sullivan

I DON’T BELIEVE IT… No snakes First keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Robert Plot, confirmed that there were no snakes in the north of the county: In the Lordship of ...
( Category: History January 12,2023 )
Shropshire Murders by Nicola Sly
epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Nicola Sly

15 ‘YOU HAVE GOT THE WRONG MAN’ Prees Lower Heath, 1887 George Pickerill had spent much of his working life in service to Lord Hill on the Hawkestone estate. Now ...
( Category: History January 12,2023 )
The Little Book of Great Britain by Neil R. Storey
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Neil R. Storey

* * * THE LAMBTON WORM * * * A legendary tale from County Durham where a young knight named John Lambton skips church to go fishing in the River ...
( Category: History January 11,2023 )
Merseyside's Own by Christine Dawe
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Christine Dawe

Thomas Ismay’s preferred younger son, James, completed his degree at Oxford and joined the company, working alongside his father in the Liverpool office. In 1891, both brothers were made partners ...
( Category: United Kingdom January 11,2023 )
Haunted Hull by Mark Riley
epub |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Mark Riley

Hull Prison. On the day of the hanging a large crowd gathered outside the prison, looking at the clock above the entrance and waiting for someone to come out with ...
( Category: History January 11,2023 )
Haunted Chelmsford by Jason Day
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Jason Day

The Grey Cat and Old Ruffy – The Beehive Pub, Barrack Lane, Great Waltham, Chelmsford The Beehive pub in Great Waltham is said to have two rather different spirits; the ...
( Category: Europe January 11,2023 )
Cracking the Symbol Code by Tim Wallace-Murphy
epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Tim Wallace-Murphy [Wallace-Murphy, Tim]

Figure 29 Figure 30 Figure 31 Figure 32 The figure on the extreme left of the central doorway represents Melchizadek, the priest king of Jerusalem to whom Abraham gave tithes ...
( Category: World January 11,2023 )
In the Watches of the Night by Peter C. Baldwin
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Peter C. Baldwin

CHAPTER 9 Night Life in the Electric City Until the 1880s, gas lighting gave the nocturnal city a landscape of light and shadow. Brightly lit thoroughfares, with glowing shop windows ...
( Category: Automotive January 11,2023 )
Buffalo Woman Comes Singing by Brooke Medicine Eagle
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Brooke Medicine Eagle [Eagle, Brooke Medicine]

But there is also a deeper story, a story that spans centuries of time in the Americas. Several thousand years ago, the being we call Elder Brother came from Asia ...
( Category: Children's Action & Adventure Books January 11,2023 )
Bad Whisky by Edward Burns
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Edward Burns

A Lack of Shellac It wasn’t long before letters from chemists hit the pages of their trade periodical, The Pharmaceutical Journal. Some displayed concern and a desire to learn the ...
( Category: Accounting January 11,2023 )
Liverpool's Children in the Second World War by Pamela Russell
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Pamela Russell

Chapter Seven Dangerous Games for Boys… and Girls Although many schools had reopened a short time after the beginning of the war, they were often open for limited hours, perhaps ...
( Category: History January 11,2023 )

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