Europe
epub |eng | | Author:William Monter

* * * Source: N. M. McQ. Holmes, Scottish Coins in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh: Part I, 1526–1603 (Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, #58: Oxford University ...
( Category: Europe November 17,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Hirst, John [Hirst, John]

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. It was a ferocious, terrifying battle, a battle to the death, wonderfully described by Livy. Only one man survives, one of the ...
( Category: Europe November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flude, Kevin [Flude, Kevin]

EDWARD VI Reigned 1547–1553 Edward was born in 1537 at Hampton Court. He was a precocious and rather priggish child – serious, scholarly and dedicated to the Protestant religion. He ...
( Category: Great Britain November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

All methods formerly usual were upset by Bonaparte’s luck and boldness, and first rate powers almost wiped out at a blow. Clausewitz, Vom Kriege Before the war, and still more ...
( Category: Europe November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

AS WELL AS bringing in civil reform and reminding everyone of his great military victories, Napoleon announced the return of the Catholic Church, abolished in the Revolution, but this time ...
( Category: France November 14,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

24 The Moment of Truth Throughout the autumn of 1934 Churchill had been preparing a major Parliamentary appeal for accelerated Air Force expansion. On November 25, three days before the ...
( Category: Great Britain November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]

*** Yabu se întoarse târziu acasă în acea zi. Servitorii îi luară îmbrăcămintea leoarcă de sudoare şi-i dădură un chimonou proaspăt şi îi puseră în picioare tabi curate. Yuriko, soţia ...
( Category: Historical November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]

CAPITOLUL 20 — Fir-aş eu afurisit, dacă asta nu e viaţă! Blackthorne zăcea încântat pe burtă pe salteaua groasă, pe jumătate înfăşurat într-un chimonou de bumbac, cu capul sprijinit pe ...
( Category: Historical November 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]

XII. WORDSWORTH: CLIMAX, 1804–14 After some minor wanderings, the Wordsworth ménage moved (1808) from Dove Cottage to a larger house at nearby Allan Bank. There the poet blossomed out as ...
( Category: France November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...
( Category: Holocaust November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

CHAPTER XX The Literature of India I. THE LANGUAGES OF INDIA Sanskrit—The vernaculars—Grammar JUST as the philosophy and much of the literature of medieval Europe were composed in a dead ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]

On June 9, 1772, at a country dance, Goethe met Kestner’s betrothed, Charlotte Buff. The next day he visited her, and found a new charm in womanhood. “Lotte,” then twenty, ...
( Category: England November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. WOLSEY AND THE CHURCH He recognized and largely exemplified the abuses that still survived in the ecclesiastical life of England: absentee bishops, worldly clergymen, idle monks, and priests snared ...
( Category: Christianity November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

VII. INNOCENT VIII: 1484–92 The failure of Sixtus was confirmed by the chaos that ruled Rome after his death. Mobs sacked the papal granaries, broke into the banks of the ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. THE LAW OF PERSONS “All law,” says the precise Gaius, “pertains to persons, to property, or to procedure.”3 The word persona had signified an actor’s mask; later it was ...
( Category: Christianity November 11,2014 )