European History
epub |eng | 2021-03-16 | Author:Menachem Kaiser [Kaiser, Menachem]

* * * My father tells me that after the war my grandfather returned to Sosnowiec, to the apartment he’d grown up in, because his father had told him that ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-14 | Author:Robert Lynn Fuller

ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE FFI One American in particular got along easily with French maquis: war correspondent Ernest Hemingway, who found himself leading a band of maquis around Rambouillet, southwest ...
( Category: European History May 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Veronica Buckley

Athénaïs’s final defeat began with a death, the sudden and quite unexpected death of Queen Marie-Thérèse. At the age of forty-five, she had appeared to be in good health, and ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies May 3,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:William H Hamby [Hamby, William H]

A mutual discovery--they both cared. As they entered the bank Mrs. Barnett, dressed in a very girlish travelling suit, was standing by the check counter as though waiting. At sight ...
( Category: European History May 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-18 | Author:Cable, David; [Cable, David;]

In July 1997, Class 55 Deltic D9000 Royal Scots Grey was given a test run prior to its being rostered to work a Saturday Ramsgate to Edinburgh service for a ...
( Category: Engineering May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Toplis

Those who wanted to get on in life abandoned smocks for cheap ready-made jackets and suits, leaving the garment to elderly men and, on stage, as visual shorthand for a ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-10 | Author:Jamie Page; [Page, Jamie]

‘Dear Margrette, I know well you won’t say anything about it, which is why I want to tell you’ These dramatic scenes appear to have been followed by a period ...
( Category: European History April 30,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Grinspan

In those blinding, blizzard years of the late 1880s, as the “business and intelligent classes” were reengaging American politics, the men and women falling below the Gilded Age wedge began ...
( Category: Historical Biographies April 29,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Seven Life in Hiding “Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies April 28,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2021-01-30 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six Becoming a Writer “How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood ...
( Category: Historical Biographies April 28,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2018-05-28 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five The Greek Tour “I wish I were illiterate.” —Nero As Nero began to rebuild downtown Rome on top of the ashes of what had been before, his building ...
( Category: Historical Biographies April 28,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2020-04-25 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Seven Skeptics and Believers “I cannot understand how anyone who knows he is in a state of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.” —Thomas Aquinas In the midst ...
( Category: Historical Biographies April 28,2021 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-14 | Author:Jongsoo Lee;

Authorship and Preconquest and Postconquest Context There is another good reason to challenge the notion of individual authorship in Nahua poetry from the pre-Hispanic period. The European concept of “individual ...
( Category: European History April 27,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2021-04-17 | Author:James Fell

July 4, 362 BCE Gerard Butler’s chiseled abs instilled a belief that Spartans could not be defeated. What? You thought I was gonna write about ‘murica for today? After the ...
( Category: European History April 25,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-12 | Author:Daniel Milford-Cottam

This 1964 haute couture evening gown by Givenchy is encrusted with intricate coral beading and raffia embroidery. While copyists could replicate the simple silhouettes, the decoration was impossible to emulate. ...
( Category: Fashion April 25,2021 )