Great Britain
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Rosemary Goring [GORING, ROSEMARY]
Scavenging, May 1859 THE ARGYLLSHIRE HERALD Smuggling, wrecking and scavenging were a way of life in certain parts of Scotland, an engrained habit dating back even before the very first ...
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Great Britain
March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Derek J Taylor
12 BOUVINES, NORTHERN FRANCE A BATTLE FOR THREE EMPIRES I nearly didn’t make it to Bouvines. I’d seen on the internet that hundreds of men were going to dress up ...
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History & Theory
March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-11 | Author:John Woolf
STRATTON DID LEAVE some words but they are few and far between and, as we will see, hard to divorce from his public persona. He was always General Tom Thumb ...
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Great Britain
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Philip Paris
By 1944, Balfour Beatty estimated it had sufficient blocks for the barriers and Alf Hutcheon was laid off. He worked for a while as a projectionist at the Strond cinema ...
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Great Britain
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Hamilton-Paterson [Hamilton-Paterson, James]
An earlier version of this chapter appeared in the RAF Historical Society’s Journal, ‘Cold War Air Systems Procurement’ (2017). * Empire of the Clouds (Faber, 2010). 7. Motorbikes ‘Drunk on ...
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Archaeology
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1981-03-15 | Author:Christian Miller [Christian Miller]
My father’s own childhood had been extremely harsh. The elder of two brothers, he had been rejected by his mother, who idolised the younger boy. Many years later my own ...
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Memoirs
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Sinclair McKay
CHAPTER SEVEN DEADLIER THAN THE MALE The young woman and her male colleague had ventured deeper into the building than they had perhaps intended. It was a featureless office block ...
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Logic & Brain Teasers
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Stuart Reid
William Pyne’s study of a baker shows a typical small tradesman’s dress of the very early 19th century. Ignore the apron, and probably the stovepipe hat (this taller version of ...
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Great Britain
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Edmund Burke [Burke, Edmund]
"Still as you rise, the state, exalted too, Finds no distemper whilst 't is changed by you ; Changed like the world's great scene, when without noise The rising sun ...
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History & Theory
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Ambrose Hide
ADMIRALTY ARCH SW1 NOBODY NOSE Poking from the stonework in the northern archway of Admiralty Arch, about 7ft above the ground, is a human nose. As umpteen guidebooks cheerfully explain, ...
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Great Britain
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Dolby
The tightened security measures at all the royal palaces that followed the break-in also caused a problem for the Queen. Unable to sleep one night, the Monarch decided to take ...
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Great Britain
March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Makalani, Minkah;
The International Conference of Negro Workers Several of the black delegates to the Frankfurt Congress held a series of meetings on their final two days in Frankfurt to lay the ...
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African-American Studies
March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Helen Parr
Some men present also reported evidence of war crimes. One soldier from 2 Para was found to have ears, cut from Argentine corpses, in his kit bag. Another was ‘less ...
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Historical Study & Educational Resources
March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-20 | Author:Jim Pipe
1601: Essex’s rebellion Ringleader: Robert Devereux, earl of Essex. Cause: Half-baked coup d’état against Elizabeth after Essex had fallen out of favour with the queen. Elizabeth’s court also housed its ...
( Category:
Humor
March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phillipp R. Schofield [Phillipp R. Schofield]
( Category:
Criticism
March 15,2020 )
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