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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 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Michael Twomey

Martial Law The attack at Bandon was not the only news received by Boyle that attempts to overrun his plantations and towns were being carried out. He received a letter ...
( Category: Ireland January 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-25 | Author:Karen Evans

View of Stowe Pool towards St Chad’s church, 1847. 16JULY 1876 William Louis Ward ran the Ashwood Hotel in Wood Street, Longton with his wife. On this Sunday afternoon William ...
( Category: United Kingdom January 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Dermot Turing

The four huts The autumn of 1939 was the period of the ‘Phoney War’, where nothing much was happening, at least as far as the war on land and in ...
( Category: 20th Century January 5,2023 )