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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Margaret MacMillan [MacMillan, Margaret]

CHAPTER 13 The Crises Start: Germany, France and Morocco In the early spring of 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm was on one of his frequent cruises, this time southwards down the Atlantic ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
epub |eng | 2006-04-27 | Author:Jerry Brotton [Brotton, Jerry]

In the 1440s the bishop of Tournai, Jean Chevrot, was so concerned at the poor attendance and observation of the sacraments that he commissioned Roger van der Weyden to paint ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
The History of England, Volume 2 by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

23 Faith of our fathers The failure of Wyatt’s rebellion, and the subsequent arrival of Philip, lent confidence to the queen. The pace of religious reform, or perhaps of religious ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
Artists in Nazi-Occupied France by Werner Lange
epub |eng | 2018-07-29 | Author:Werner Lange

—————— 1. André Metthey, a very active art dealer under the Occupation. The owner of the Élysée Gallery. (EdN) THE RUDIERS The Rudier Art Foundries1 were located in Malakoff, at ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2019 )
The Steam Locomotive: An Engineering History by Gibbs Ken
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Gibbs, Ken [Gibbs, Ken]

Reversing gear – a replica of Stephenson’s Rocket locomotive of 1829. Caprotti rotary cam valve gear, c. 1920s. Stephenson valve gear, Great Western two-cylinder locomotives. Sectional view of right-hand main ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2019 )
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark
epub |eng | 2003-11-01 | Author:Donald Lemen Clark [Clark, Donald Lemen]

Part Two The Purpose of Poetry Chapter I The Classical Conception of the Purpose of Poetry 1. General To say that poetry has a moral effect on the reader is ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2019 )
The History of England, Volume 4 by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd

22 The magical machines Two brothers, John and Thomas Lombe, erected a manufactory in 1719 on an island in the River Derwent. It housed a silk engine which became the ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2019 )
The Peninsular War by Charles Esdaile
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Esdaile

12 Torres Vedras THE DEFENCE OF PORTUGAL, JULY 1810–MARCH 1811 The stench hung heavy in the air. In the rubbish-strewn streets nothing moved except a few emaciated dogs who snarled ...
( Category: Europe January 18,2019 )
India by Shashi Tharoor
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Shashi Tharoor [Tharoor, Shashi]

MB Rajesh Working his way up from the grass-roots of the political system, MB Rajesh belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Rajesh was elected to the Lok Sabha ...
( Category: Asia January 18,2019 )
Campaign [316] Shrewsbury 1403: Struggle for a Fragile Crown by Dickon Whitewood
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Dickon Whitewood

The tomb and effigy of Sir Robert Malvesyn lies in the Church of St Nicholas in Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire. Robert was one of many knights and men-at-arms from the surrounding ...
( Category: Military January 18,2019 )
Hungary by Norman Stone
epub |eng | 2018-01-17 | Author:Norman Stone

Jewish inhabitants of the impoverished Angyanföld (‘land of angels’) district on the outskirts of Budapest in 1915. György Aczél, later the powerful deputy Minister for Culture in the Kádár-era Communist ...
( Category: Europe January 18,2019 )
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Patrick Radden Keefe

A month after Molloy’s body was discovered, the commission exhumed two more corpses from a bog in County Monaghan: Brian McKinney, son of Margaret McKinney, who had advocated for the ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 17,2019 )
The Caesar of Paris by Susan Jaques
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Susan Jaques

In addition to gathering the world’s finest art, Napoleon planned to place all European learning in a world library in Paris. His unrealized plan was to move the Bibliothèque Impériale ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2019 )
Aelfred's Britain by Adams Max;
epub |eng | | Author:Adams, Max; [Adams, Max]

36. DUNOTTAR CASTLE, on its rocky promontory in Aberdeenshire—a target for both Norse raiders and Anglo-Saxon kings. The first significant events in Constantín’s reign seem to reflect a series of ...
( Category: Europe January 17,2019 )
In the Land of Giants by Adams Max;
epub |eng | | Author:Adams, Max; [Adams, Max]

CWM LLAN ASIDE FROM the fact that my great-grandfather Alf Richmond died in a boating accident off Cemaes Bay in 1895, my knowledge of Anglesey’s history is limited to a ...
( Category: Europe January 17,2019 )

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