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Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs) by John Guy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:John Guy

5 A Second Solomon Like King Solomon, the most famous of the Old Testament patriarchs, who was said to have sat in majesty on an ivory throne and who completed ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2016 )
Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Deborah Harkness [Harkness, Deborah]

22 Matthew headed north and west and out of the city with Diana beside him. He drove uncharacteristically fast, and in less than fifteen minutes they were on a quiet ...
( Category: Occult June 14,2016 )
Dark History of the Popes by Brenda Ralph Lewis
epub |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:Brenda Ralph Lewis [Lewis, Brenda Ralph]

His chief rivals for the papal succession were Cardinal Ascanio Sforza of Milan and Cardinal Giuliani della Rovere, the latter being bankrolled to the tune of 200,000 gold ducats by ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries June 14,2016 )
Dark History of the Kings & Queens of England by Brenda Ralph Lewis
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Brenda Ralph Lewis

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS is often pictured as a beautiful, desirable young woman. It was not true. Mary was no romantic heroine. She was an ignorant, foolish, indiscreet airhead. She ...
( Category: England June 14,2016 )
Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Elizabeth George [George, Elizabeth]

9 Organ music seemed to be blasting from the very trees. It swelled to crescendoes, faded, and roared out again: a baroque combination of chords, rests, and flourishes that made ...
( Category: Murder June 13,2016 )
Ancestral Journeys by Jean Manco
epub |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Jean Manco

Now the disease in Byzantium ran a course of four months, and its greatest virulence lasted about three. And at first the deaths were a little more than the normal, ...
( Category: Prehistory June 13,2016 )
An Italian Home - Settling by Lake Como
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Paul Wright [Wright, Paul]

Chapter 10 Lavoro Regolare - Regular Work for Nicola When we left the UK, the recession had really set in. In mainland Europe there did not seem to be any ...
( Category: General June 12,2016 )
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna [Goldin, Ian]

** In the meantime, to prevent repeats in the future, the US Postal Service has been irradiating all D.C. federal mail, at an annual cost to the US taxpayer of ...
( Category: Social Aspects June 11,2016 )
German Philosophy by Bowie Andrew;
epub |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Bowie, Andrew;

Ideology and commodity Marx’s mature work in Capital (first volume published 1867) seeks to analyse the mechanisms of 19th-century capitalism which lead to the impoverishment of the many in economies ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 10,2016 )
Pan Wolodyjowski by SIENKIEWICZ HENRYK
epub |pol | 2011-02-22 | Author:SIENKIEWICZ HENRYK [SIENKIEWICZ HENRYK]

–A potem w sułtańskie ziemie? –Tak!… Z nią!… 171 ROZDZIAŁ XXXI Luta zima pokryła grubą okiścią lasy i wypełniła jary po brzegi zwałami śniegu, tak iż krajcały zdawał się być ...
( Category: Military June 9,2016 )
The Concise History of the Crusades (Critical Issues in World and International History) by Thomas F. Madden
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Thomas F. Madden

Illustration 1. Peter the Hermit leading the First Crusade. Miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, f. 45v. © De Agostini/The British Library Board. Illustration 2. Templar riding into battle. Fresco from ...
( Category: Christianity June 9,2016 )
The Flaneur by Edmund White
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Edmund White

The flâneur wanders to the Parc Monceau in the eighth arrondissement, just a stroll north and east of the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysées. Proust lived near here when ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 2,2016 )
In Command of History by David Reynolds
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:David Reynolds [Reynolds, David]

CHAPTER 20 SECOND FRONT: WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW? Second front now!” is the title of chapter 18 of The Hinge of Fate, echoing the popular slogan of 1942. The Americans ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2016 )
Liberty or Death by Peter McPhee
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter McPhee

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SETTLING SCORES THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION, 1794–95 THE THERMIDORIANS WERE HARDENED MEN WHO HAD LIVED through fifteen months of fearful apprehension, and they were determined that their experience would ...
( Category: France May 28,2016 )
Fries! by Blake Lingle
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:Blake Lingle

That’s my hand and those were my fries! The fries lasted forty-three seconds. The hand is still with me. A bar across the street from the popular Vlaams Friethuis in ...
( Category: France May 28,2016 )

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