Europe
epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:John Wade

The route of the Metropolitan Railway. Where the railway followed the route of an existing road, properties and people were largely unaffected, apart from the inconvenience of road closures during ...
( Category: Europe December 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

This at last was mutiny: having been denounced as a rebel, Kornilov chose to rebel. Several senior generals declared their support for him. Now Kerensky had a real 'counter-revolution' to ...
( Category: Russia December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-17 | Author:Judith Flanders

The mother’s care and … attentions have completely demoralized me and … I have decided that when I marry it must be a lady well versed in domestic knowledge, not ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Prophet of Doom

couldn’t chance the girl playing possum. She stood ready to slap the ether-soaked wad back into place. But a minute passed and the young girl didn’t move. Satisfied, Esther stuffed ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)]

* * * Just as the q-b was working up to the rage I had at last calmed down from, appeared the shawl-swathed girl announcing "Pronto!" "Pronto! Pronto!" said everybody. ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER IX CATILINE. To wash the blackamoor white has been the favorite task of some modern historians. To find a paradox in character is a relief to the investigating mind ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

* * * Chapter X. CICERO'S DEATH. b.c. 43, ætat. 64. What other letters from Cicero we possess were written almost exclusively with the view of keeping the army together, ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Wilkie Collins [Collins, Wilkie]

* * * While we were sitting in the counting-house, we had some talk with our good-humoured and intelligent guide, on the subject of miners and mining at Botallack. Some ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER IX Everything from without was favouring Alexander's encroaching policy, when he was compelled to turn his eyes from France towards the centre of Italy: in Florence dwelt a man, ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER XI The mode of torture employed at Loudun was a variety of the boot, and one of the most painful of all. Each of the victim's legs below the ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Joseph Pietrykowski

With the advance of the allied phalanx and its covering screen of light infantry, meanwhile, the men of Antigonos’ centre were given another cause for concern. Large stretches of the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Alexander McKee [Alexander McKee]

Margret Freyer, an unusually beautiful girl of twenty-four, who had already survived a full day’s interrogation by the Gestapo and escaped the concentration camp by carefully considering her answers, was ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-12-17 | Author:Norman F. Cantor

The case of the le Strange family demonstrates well what the Black Death and the courts could do to an unlucky upper-class family. The le Stranges lived in Whitchurch in ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Woolley

Hobgoblins Life for the Spanish embassy staff was miserable. As well as having to endure mockery and even physical attacks, their mission had stalled. Serious negotiations over the match had ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

THE FORTIFIED EASTERN Libyan harbor of Tobruk changed hands four times during the war. Before 1940 and after 1943 the port was little known and of no real strategic importance, ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2017 )