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epub |eng | | Author:Larry Kirwan

“Raise money?” My stomach did a flip. I had never asked for a penny in my life. Even back in Wexford as a child, I had worked summers, bought my ...
( Category: Ireland January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Benton Rain Patterson

12. THE TRAGEDIES AND TRIUMPHS Philip was in Ghent, in the Netherlands, on June 22, 1559, the day he was married to the thirteen-year-old French princess, Elizabeth of Valois, at ...
( Category: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-01 | Author:Worth Books

Cast of Characters Nathanial Bailey: The editor of the first attempt at a comprehensive English dictionary that included both difficult or obscure words as well as easy or common words; ...
( Category: Victorian Era (1837-1901) January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:David Wragg

SEIZURE! On 30 June, the Admiralty received a copy of a message telegraphed from the French Admiralty to Admiral Odend‘hal at Portsmouth, advising him that the Italians had permitted the ...
( Category: France January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Unknown

On Thursday, 6 March 1684 Nevison was finally caught at an alehouse near Sandal Magna, south-east of Wakefield, when he was ambushed by Captain William Hardcastle. It is likely that ...
( Category: 20th Century January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Joe McGowan [McGowan, Joe]

Originally, harvest celebrations were held here to celebrate the pagan goddess Áine; they have continued to recent times as a Christian festival. Here then we have this most remarkable well, ...
( Category: Ireland January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Everett

TWENTY-ONE Here they were, tying up Pili Pala under Drago’s direction, for all days, dreaded or looked forward to, come round inevitably, don’t they, and it was late afternoon on ...
( Category: Wales January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-04 | Author:Mary Daheim

Chapter Ten The Elector Frederick was training a new gyrfalcon, and having little success. The young German prince slipped the hood from the bird’s eyes, but could not get it ...
( Category: United Kingdom January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-28 | Author:Ronda Gibb Hinrichsen

Chapter 18 It was midnight, and still Dacia could not get Miss Grant’s disapproving glare out of her mind. What if her outside-the-ordinary actions had made Miss Grant question Dacia’s ...
( Category: France January 17,2023 )
epub | | | Author:Edward Weech

From the centre A. at the distance A. B. Describe the circle B. C. D. At the distance B. A. from B. the centre The round A. C. E. to ...
( Category: Georgian Era (1714-1837) January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Harffy [Harffy, Matthew]

Thirty The good weather held and as the sun fell to the horizon behind us, there was no land to be seen in any direction. The sea in our wake ...
( Category: Middle Ages (449-1066) January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

4 From Honeymoon to Highclere On Christmas Day 1922, Porchey and Catherine sailed for India from Tilbury Docks, arriving in Bombay some ten days later. They had spent five months ...
( Category: 20th Century January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Christine Dawe

Thomas Ismay’s preferred younger son, James, completed his degree at Oxford and joined the company, working alongside his father in the Liverpool office. In 1891, both brothers were made partners ...
( Category: United Kingdom January 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:John Ellis

CHAPTER 16 HMS PENELOPE During the war, Blackpool adopted HMS Penelope. The ship, built in the mid–1930s in case war did break out, was a light cruiser. Built by Harland ...
( Category: United Kingdom January 11,2023 )