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Rebel Prince by Tom Bower
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Tom Bower

15 The Queen’s Recollection On Monday, 14 October 2002, Paul Burrell, forty-four years old, stood in the dock of Court Number One at the Old Bailey, accused of stealing 310 ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
The Saudi Terror Machine by Pierre Conesa
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Pierre Conesa

SAUDI ACTIVITIES IN THE MAGHREB COUNTRIES Algeria In June 2015, the Minister of Religious Affairs, Muhammad Aïssa, led a crusade against the increasingly aggressive emergence of Salafist fatwas. During a ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 25,2018 )
The King and the Catholics by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Antonia Fraser

*1 Their daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts would be the celebrated nineteenth-century philanthropist. *2 Theoretically he was the heir presumptive; the word ‘presumptive’ indicated that if the King managed to have another ...
( Category: Europe September 25,2018 )
What is History? by E. H. Carr
epub |eng | 2018-05-07 | Author:E. H. Carr

The word ‘reciprocal’ would perhaps have been preferable to ‘circular’; for the result is not to return to the same place, but to move forward to fresh discoveries through this ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 25,2018 )
Bismarck by Steinberg Jonathan;
epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Steinberg, Jonathan;

9 The Decline Begins: Liberals and Catholics The victory over France and the foundation of the new Reich marked the high point of Bismarck’s career. He had achieved the impossible ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
Yom Kippur a Go-Go by Matthue Roth
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Matthue Roth [MATTHUE ROTH]

8 repentance Right now I’m in my bedroom, unwrapping condoms, I don’t know why. I only planned on unwrapping one, which is what Jews are supposed to do on Friday ...
( Category: World September 25,2018 )
The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims by Fletcher Richard
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-03 | Author:Fletcher, Richard [Fletcher, Richard]

King Richard became so noted for his daring exploits while overseas that when any horse belonging to a Saracen shied at a bush its master would say to it: ‘D’you ...
( Category: World September 25,2018 )
Running the World by David Rothkopf
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:David Rothkopf [Rothkopf, David]

Showing a similar appreciation for the ridiculous in the job, Condoleezza Rice recounts how later during the administration,a statue was going to be given to President Bush 41 by then-Soviet ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 24,2018 )
Beyond Hawai'i Native Labor in the Pacific World by Gregory Rosenthal
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Gregory Rosenthal [Rosenthal, Gregory]

ON THE FARM Sometime between 1868 and 1870, Henry Nahoa left Sacramento to reside in a boardinghouse in the rural town of Vernon, Sutter County, about twenty-five miles north of ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 24,2018 )
The Sunflower_On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Simon Wiesenthal [Wiesenthal, Simon]

REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Moral abstractions can achieve a firm universality precisely because they are abstract. The fine details that come with real life can make for obscurity, complexity, and confoundment. I ...
( Category: Philosophy September 24,2018 )
Two Sisters_A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey Into the Syrian Jihad by Åsne Seierstad
epub |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Åsne Seierstad

20 BLUEPRINT Who was in charge here? The judge had released him. The head of the prison had protested. Who decided his fate? The young fighters were only pawns. The ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 24,2018 )
Ruff's War by K. Sue Roper
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:K. Sue Roper [Roper, K. Sue]

We believed we were mere hours from a declaration of war on Iraq. We had immersed ourselves in a flurry of prewar activity, including packing, repacking, bidding farewell to our ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 24,2018 )
Andersonville by John McElroy
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John McElroy [McElroy, John]

CHAPTER XLV AUGUST—NEEDLES STUCK IN PUMPKIN SEEDS—SOME PHENOMENA OF STARVATION —RIOTING IN REMEMBERED LUXURIES "Illinoy," said tall, gaunt Jack North, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois, to me, one ...
( Category: Americas September 24,2018 )
Taj Mahal by Diana Preston
epub |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]

IN THE MIDST of death and desolation, replete with kites and vultures arcing over the barren landscape, Shah Jahan and the fertile Mumtaz conceived another child. Mumtaz spent some of ...
( Category: Architecture September 24,2018 )
The German Empire by Michael Stürmer
epub |eng | 2002-08-06 | Author:Michael Stürmer [Stürmer, Michael]

5 EUROPE—A CONCERT NO MORE The repose of Europe, as British statesmen of the early decades of the nineteenth century used to describe the balance of power, had been rudely ...
( Category: World September 24,2018 )

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