mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-30 | Author:Halliday, Stephen [Halliday, Stephen]

* * * Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital: Thomas Coram (c. 1668–1751) was a sea captain from Lyme Regis in Dorset who was a pioneer in the development of trade between ...

mobi, epub, pdf |es | 2010-06-28 | Author:Bill Bryson

* * * FIFTEEN I WENT TO RETFORD. I CAN’T EXPLAIN IT. THROUGH MY MORNING ablutions, the gentle removal of the tissues from my swollen nostrils, through breakfast and checking ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Jones, Nigel [Jones, Nigel]

CHAPTER ELEVEN FALLEN FAVOURITES THE RELEASE FROM the Tower of Elizabeth and the Dudley brothers, along with genuine conspirators such as Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, was less the result ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

To think that the king of Spain, having his treasure now come home in greater quantity than ever he had, his forces doubled in those countries [Holland] when the levies ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

ought to forget Spain and everything Spanish in order to gain the love of the king and of the English. She had become so much accustomed to this idea that ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:David Green [Green, David]

7 The Reconquest of Aquitaine (1368–71) In 1368, the prince’s reputation was at its height, confirmed militarily by Nájera and founded on a glorious principality in Gascony alongside his English ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Massie, Allan [Massie, Allan]

Chapter 12 The Interregnum and the Scattered Family (1649–60) The news of the King’s execution shocked the courts of Europe. Few probably would have been surprised, or even distressed, if ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joseph P. Byrne [Byrne, Joseph P.]

Crowds of plague-stricken people are coming here, and it is impossible to stem the tide of pestilence with inexpert people who are not used to witnessing death, and it will ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Yann Martel [Martel, Yann]

CHAPTER 54 It rained all night. I had a horrible, sleepless time of it. It was noisy. On the rain catcher the rain made a drumming sound, and around me, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

By the end of 1800 Davy’s Researches, and his early papers on galvanism in Nicholson’s Journal, were rousing serious interest in London. He began receiving unofficial approaches from Sir Joseph ...