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The Irish and British Wars, 1637-1654: Triumph, Tragedy, and Failure by James Scott Wheeler
epub |eng | 2012-08-26 | Author:James Scott Wheeler [Wheeler, James Scott]

THE IRISH AND BRITISH WARS, 1637–1654 had accomplished much, the Roundheads captured Shrewsbury by surprise, on 22 February, forcing the king to send Rupert north with the bulk of his ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2020 )
The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernão Mendes Pinto
epub |eng | 2013-05-24 | Author:Fernão Mendes Pinto [Pinto, Fernão Mendes]

151 The Sack of Martaban It was almost nightfall when the surrender ceremony ended, and since the king was afraid that the troops might enter the city and make off ...
( Category: Renaissance March 5,2020 )
The Conquistadores and Crypto-Jews of Monterrrey by Raphael David T
epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Raphael, David T. [Raphael, David T.]

A Footnote on Juan Morlete Juan Morlete was born in 1557 in Arcila, the Portuguese fortress on the northwestern coast of Morocco, close to Cabo Spartel in the vicinity of ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2020 )
The Fisherman's Tomb by John O'Neill
epub |eng | 2018-03-04 | Author:John O'Neill

Chapter Fourteen Margherita Guarducci Epigraphy is the study of ancient inscriptions. There are few more subtle and difficult subspecialties of archeology. The locations of the ancient inscriptions are often dark, ...
( Category: Popes & the Vatican March 5,2020 )
The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg by Klaus Gietinger
epub |eng | | Author:Klaus Gietinger

Sketches of KPD plans according to the trial records. The Hotel Eden. Infantryman Runge, who severely injured Rosa Luxemburg with the butt of his rifle, stood in front of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 5,2020 )
Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas De Quincey
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY CONTENTS. KLOSTERHEIM THE SPHINX'S RIDDLE THE TEMPLARS' DIALOGUES KLOSTERHEIM [1832.] CHAPTER I. The winter of 1633 had set in with ...
( Category: British & Irish March 5,2020 )
Whatever Happened to the Real Black Country? by Tom Larkin
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Larkin

Gambling Many working-class men and women have long enjoyed a small wager on the Derby and Grand National, but the Street Betting Act of 1906 made betting away from the ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2020 )
The Nightingale And the Rose by Unknown
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Unknown

Oscar Wilde Classics The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ISBN 9781907832338 Paper Back ISBN 9781907832376 E-Book Oscar Wilde’s only novel, a classic instance of the aestheticism of the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 5,2020 )
It Happened in Italy by Elizabeth Bettina
epub |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Elizabeth Bettina

Translation of plaque: The Jews of Long Island City, particularly the family of Ignatz Wohl, in appreciation for the kindness received by their countrymen in Campagna during the Second World ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2020 )
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia by Mills Richard;
epub |eng | | Author:Mills, Richard;

Supporters' Groups Emerge Like so many of those attracted to new supporting styles in the second half of the 1980s, brothers Nebojša and Ognjen were schoolboys. Inspired by foreign trends, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 5,2020 )
Volume X: Rousseau and Revolution by Will Durant
epub |eng | | Author:Will Durant

2. Götz and Werther In Frankfurt the new licentiate grudgingly practiced law. He visited Darmstadt occasionally, and felt the influence of its cult of sentiment. He was now in a ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2020 )
Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes by Mauthner Martin;
epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Mauthner, Martin;

16 “Die for Danzig?” Yes, Says Henri de Kérillis With hatred in his heart, an exhilarated Henri de Kérillis felt a wild joy as he flew his small aircraft over ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2020 )
Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England by Christopher Hill
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hill

III The complaint throughout is twofold: humbler men were subject to vexatious penalties whilst the richer got off; but wider questions of church government were also involved. The bishop had ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2020 )
Fontenoy 1745 by Michael McNally & Seán Ó'Brógáin
epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Michael McNally & Seán Ó'Brógáin

A soldier’s perspective of the early morning battlefield. This panorama clearly shows how the battlefield would have looked to men from both sides, their view obscured by a heavy mist ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 5,2020 )
The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes
epub |eng | 2017-01-13 | Author:Ella Noyes [Noyes, Ella]

CHAPTER IX Art in Milan “Cosa bella mortal passa e non d’arte.”— Leonardo da Vinci. The Milanese as a people do not take a great place in the story of ...
( Category: Architecture March 5,2020 )

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