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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 | 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 | | 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 | | | 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 | 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 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-01 | Author:Unknown

An unexpected pleasure was the presence of Dr Annie Besant, looking like a priestess in her white, gold-embroidered robe, who spoke proudly of the fact that Indian men had enfranchised ...
( Category: Wales January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Various

KELPIE STORIES FROM THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. KELPIE AS USEFUL. A MAN in carting home his peats for winter fuel was in the habit of seeing a big black horse ...
( Category: Scotland January 3,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dion Alexander

9 MAKING SERIOUS FUN A stream of playfulness bubbled away blithely through Colonsay’s way of life, and though most of its self-expression was spontaneous, a serious amount of organisational effort ...
( Category: Scotland January 3,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Snow & Ann MacMillan [MacMillan, Peter Snow & Ann]

27 EDWARD VI 1547–53 Edward VI was a pale shadow of his father, Henry VIII – pasty-faced and impassive, a child of nine when he was crowned, a sickly youth ...
( Category: Stuart Era (1603-1714) January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-30 | Author:Dilip Sarkar

So ended Buck Casson’s war. During his career as an operational fighter pilot, Buck had destroyed 3½ enemy aircraft, probably destroyed four, and damaged four more. His DFC was gazetted ...
( Category: 20th Century January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:John Nichol [NICHOL, JOHN]

Don Cheney reunited with his family Although the fighting in Europe continued, Don Cheney’s personal war was over, and he returned to Canada on Thanksgiving Day, 9 October 1944, two ...
( Category: 20th Century January 1,2023 )