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The French in London by Isabelle Janvrin
epub |eng | 2016-07-03 | Author:Isabelle Janvrin

Places to visit THE LAST KINGS OF FRANCE Apsley House. Magnificent set of Sèvres porcelain with an Egyptian theme, given to the Duke of Wellington by Louis XVIII to thank ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 24,2017 )
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Durrell, Lawrence]

Landscape with Olive Trees 1.10.38 DOMINANT IN A landscape full of richer greens, the olive is for the peasant both a good servant and a hard master. In the good ...
( Category: Europe February 24,2017 )
Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage by Jones Matthew L
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Jones, Matthew L.

Practice and Politics in Embodying Theoretical Knowledge Choosing the shape and number of teeth for gears was a central locus in the eighteenth century for the assertion of scientific authority ...
( Category: History of Technology February 24,2017 )
How to Become a Spy: The World War II SOE Training Manual by British Special Operations Executive
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:British Special Operations Executive [Executive, British Special Operations]

Lead acetate 1% Ammonium sulphide 5% Good. Ammonium sulphide hard to obtain Sulphuric Acid. Very dilute. Heat Poor. Chalk Few grains dissolved in acetic acid (White vinegar). Iron until paper ...
( Category: Military February 24,2017 )
Absolute War by Chris Bellamy
epub |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Chris Bellamy [Bellamy, Chris]

This was not the kind of thing any wartime government needs, and not something people in Stalin’s Russia were used to. It was the first of many leaflets and anonymous ...
( Category: Germany February 24,2017 )
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Jennifer Ryan

Thursday, 1st August, 1940 This afternoon as I returned from the hospital, I saw that I had a most unexpected visitor. The blue bicycle leaning against the whitewashed wall by ...
( Category: Military February 24,2017 )
Crafted in Britain by Anthony Burton & Rob Scott
epub |eng | 2017-02-23 | Author:Anthony Burton & Rob Scott

Helen Whittaker preparing paint for a new window that will be installed in Westminster Abbey. Once completed, the new window would be protected by a system of isothermic plating. The ...
( Category: Europe February 24,2017 )
The SAS 1983–2014 (Elite) by Leigh Neville
mobi |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Leigh Neville

( Category: Europe February 24,2017 )
Greenwood Crafts by Edward Mills
epub |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:Edward Mills

Fig. 5.17 Randing and knotting on alternate rows. Keep moving round the basket in an anticlockwise direction, always picking up the bottom rod, until you get back to the beginning ...
( Category: Europe February 24,2017 )
The Mistress of Paris by Catherine Hewitt
epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Hewitt

Édouard Manet, Mademoiselle Lucie* Delabigne, called Valtesse de la Bigne, 1879, pastel on canvas, 55.2 × 35.6cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs ...
( Category: France February 12,2017 )
Heavenly Intrigue by Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder
epub |eng | 2005-06-13 | Author:Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder

CHAPTER 15 CONFRONTATION IN PRAGUE ON HEARING OF KEPLER’S UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE, BRAHE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED HIS ELDEST SON, TYGE, AND SOON-TO-BE SON-IN-LAW, Franz Tengnagel, in a carriage to the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 9,2017 )
Who's Your City? by Richard Florida
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-12 | Author:Richard Florida [Florida, Richard]

People who live in Calgary don’t talk about their city for long before the conversation turns to the mountain biking, the skiing, the hiking, and the fact that the city ...
( Category: Economic Conditions January 13,2017 )
Treatise on Consequences by John Buridan
epub |eng | | Author:John Buridan

Chapter 2: The Division of Modal Propositions into Composite and Divided Now, in the second chapter, we must acknowledge that modal propositions of this sort are commonly of two types. ...
( Category: Aesthetics January 10,2017 )
Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade
epub |eng | 2016-08-27 | Author:Philip Eade

* Originally entitled ‘Mr Cruttwell’s Little Outing’, which would not have been wholly inappropriate as Cruttwell was to end his life insane. * Many years later, Diana Cooper wrote to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2017 )
Chopin by Adam Zamoyski
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Zamoyski

* * * *Chopin’s expletives are typical of the unguarded way he wrote to his close friends, and should certainly not be taken, as they might be today, to denote ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians January 8,2017 )

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