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Heinrich Himmler: A Photo History of the Reichsfuhrer-SS by Max Williams
epub |eng | 2014-12-16 | Author:Max Williams [Williams, Max]

The first Himmler diary entry for 1944 is on 3 January. It shows Himmler to be at Hochwald where his evening meal guests included Milch, Reichsminister Funk, Lammers and SS-Gruppenführer ...
( Category: World War II January 1,2015 )
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds by Terry Deary
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]

‘I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.’ Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British Prime Minister BRIEF TIMELINE – THE YOUNG QUEEN 1560 The Virgin Queen has a ...
( Category: England December 31,2014 )
The Little Book of Surrey by Rupert Matthews
epub |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Rupert Matthews [Rupert Matthews]

Kempton Park The fact that Sandown was an immediate success was noticed by businessman S.H. Hyde, who owned Kempton Manor near Sunbury. The grounds had the same features as Sandown ...
( Category: Trivia December 30,2014 )
Abacus and the Cross by Nancy Marie Brown
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

After his dazzling performance, the new abbot of Bobbio accompanied the emperor and Archbishop Adalbero to Rome. There, at an Easter synod, Gerbert saw his Catalan friend Miro Bonfill, bishop ...
( Category: France December 29,2014 )
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Thomas Levenson [Levenson, Thomas]

While talkative fools like Ball and Whitfield presented little difficulty to Newton, William Chaloner remained at large, a wholly different species of problem. He was vastly more ambitious than the ...
( Category: Great Britain December 29,2014 )
A History of the Crusades-Vol 2 by Steven Runciman
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

1146: Murder of Zengi In May 1146 Zengi moved to Aleppo to prepare for his Syrian expedition. As he passed through Edessa he learnt of an attempt by the Armenians ...
( Category: Christianity December 29,2014 )
Mona Lisa by Dianne Hales
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Dianne Hales [Hales, Dianne]

Biographers suggest several possibilities for where Lisa might have posed for Leonardo. The artist could have begun his original sketch in his bottega at Santissima Annunziata, where he was living ...
( Category: Italy December 29,2014 )
Napoleon: A Political Life by Englund Steven
epub |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Englund, Steven [Englund, Steven]

XI The Empire—and Its Fissures (1807-1810) I love power … as a musician loves his violin, for the tones I can bring forth, for the chords and harmonies. —Napoleon I, ...
( Category: France December 29,2014 )
Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Chris Skidmore [Skidmore, Chris]

Your loving friend and kinsman, R.D.4 Of course, life could never return to normal. Despite Dudley’s protestations of innocence, there would always be those who refused to believe him, assuming ...
( Category: England December 29,2014 )
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis by Bruce F. Pauley
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Bruce F. Pauley [Pauley, Bruce F.]

CHAPTER X "POSITIVE FASCISM" AND APPEASEMENT The Austrian government’s nearly total suppression of overt Nazi activity was destined to be short-lived. The Ethiopian War, which began in October 1935, turned ...
( Category: Germany December 29,2014 )
The Reign of Arthur by Christopher Gidlow
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Gidlow

King Arthur? The combination of sources so far has yielded several plausible roles for Arthur, the victor of Badon Hill. He could be a sub-king of Ercing, of lesser rank ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
This Little Britain by Harry Bingham
epub |eng | 2007-12-26 | Author:Harry Bingham [Bingham, Harry]

* The formula, should you care to admire it, looks like this: B(x,y)=∫10tx−1(1−t)y−1dt * Nobel was a manufacturer of explosives, dynamite his most famous product. In April 1888, he woke ...
( Category: Cultural December 27,2014 )
Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Janice MacLeod

Dear Áine, It’s raining in Paris today. Not all day, just when I gear up to go. The clouds seem to know when I put on my coat, and they ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“SIR, “Your wife, Ursula Halifax, having some time since attained the age fixed by her late father as her majority, I will, within a month after date, pay over to ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History by J Smith
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:J Smith

The so-called new, positive orientation is woolly and ill-defined. The new movements are not named nor are their motivations analyzed. They are only referred to in the context of the ...
( Category: Anarchism December 27,2014 )

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