Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Simon, Bryant

HALLEY’S COMET AND BEYOND In 2004, Halley’s Comet hit. That’s what Brewster called Ray Charles’s Concord Records/Hear Music-produced CD, Genius Loves Company. Timed to come out at the same time ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

JAMES II OF ENGLAND/JAMES VII OF SCOTLAND and Anne Hyde 1637-1671 The prodigiously buxom and flirtatious Anne Hyde was the daughter of Edward Hyde, a Wiltshire lawyer who turned to ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Mike Milotte

8. A Very Grave Offence On the 19th of January 1965, Mary Keating, midwife and proprietress of St Rita’s private nursing home in south Dublin, was convicted in the Dublin ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine placed this letter in a cabinet in her study and locked it away. There it remained throughout her reign, discovered after her death by the new emperor, her son, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-04 | Author:Jane Robinson

7. Women’s Sphere You know, Eileen, in spite of going to Manchester, you’re really quite normal.1 Perhaps the most obvious sign of continuity between their old and new lives for ...
( Category: Women in History March 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Blank, Hanne [Blank, Hanne]

CHAPTER 9 Heaven and Earth Valde durum est contradiciere quod habet gustus pomi. It is so hard to deny things that taste of the apple. —Saint Hildegard of Bingen THE ...
( Category: Sexuality March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Juliet Nicolson

10 Release Early Winter 1919 The skies were filling with spectacular and record-breaking machines. Alcock and Brown’s recent crossing of the Atlantic by air in June was still on everyone’s ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Martha Hodes [Hodes, Martha]

Jefferson Davis, dressed in hoopskirt and military boots, hangs above an open grave. This 1865 cartoon lithograph, entitled “Freedom’s Immortal Triumph!” and “Finale of the ‘Jeff Davis Die-Nasty,’” shows a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Michael Brandow [Brandow, Michael]

as is usual with a crowd, attracted, in anything, more interest than any other class. Those delicate little animals, whose health must be preserved in glass houses, were gazed at ...
( Category: Breeds March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Armstrong, Stephen [Armstrong, Stephen]

The Second New Deal Many wealthy members of American society were appalled by the actions that Roosevelt took during his first year in office; he was called a traitor to ...
( Category: Advanced Placement March 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Blavatsky, H. P [Blavatsky, H. P]

* * * THE DUAL ASPECT OF WISDOM No doubt but ye are the people and wisdom shall die with you. — Job xii, 2 But wisdom is justified of ...
( Category: Wicca March 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Steve Fraser

Fire in the Hole Corporations in trouble, no longer able or willing to finance themselves with retained earnings, needed to please Wall Street to keep afloat. And they did so ...
( Category: History & Theory March 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Clayton, Anthony [Clayton, Anthony]

A Chindit and mule, 211 Column, 2nd Battalion the King’s Own Royal Regiment, April 1944. The cardboard boxes to the soldier’s right contain American K rations. Behind him is one ...
( Category: Reference March 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Mary Pilon

• Sometime later, Ralph sat in his study, surrounded by documents and Anti-Monopoly boxes, unsure of where his case was going. Then his son Mark, always the avid reader, burst ...
( Category: Board Games March 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Selina O'Grady

12 THE BUDDHA IN A TOGA It is better that I [the bodhisattva] alone suffer than that all beings sink to the world of misfortune. There I shall give myself ...