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The Story of Champagne by Nicholas Faith
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Nicholas Faith

Although the judge summed up in favour of the prosecution as far as he decently could, the jury clearly shared the trade’s view that Goliath was being rather beastly to ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine September 21,2017 )
Apocalypses by Eugen Weber
epub |eng | 1999-11-30 | Author:Eugen Weber [Weber, Eugen]

But this work is not about anti-Semitism, which is a long-running plague; it is about end-of-the-worldism, which is another. We have seen that Jews sometimes attain high visibility as harbingers ...
( Category: Religious Studies September 20,2017 )
Lady Katherine Knollys by Sarah-Beth Watkins
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: World September 20,2017 )
The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Peter Linebaugh [ Linebaugh, Peter]

A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows, c. 1773, by William Blake. Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition. Slave resistance was closely related to the development ...
( Category: World September 20,2017 )
Seven Flowers by Jennifer Potter
epub | | | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

One of the Roman’s fiercest critics was the lyric poet Christine de Pizan, who turned to poetry some time after the death in 1390 of her husband, a secretary to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 20,2017 )
America's Women by Gail Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Gail Collins

13 Turn of the Century: The Arrival of the New Woman “TO DEMONSTRATE PUBLICLY THAT WOMEN HAVE LEGS” In 1895, Frances Willard, the longtime head of the Women’s Christian Temperance ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 20,2017 )
Salem Witch Judge by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

The next day Stephen and his wife arrived in Boston to stay with Samuel and his family. Stephen likely carried the transcripts with him. On September 22 Cotton Mather called ...
( Category: History September 20,2017 )
Last Crusade, The by Cliff Nigel
epub |eng | | Author:Cliff, Nigel [Cliff, Nigel]

Having delivered his public history lesson, Cabral was to convey another message in private. He was to request the Zamorin to banish every last Muslim from his harbors; the Portuguese ...
( Category: Europe September 20,2017 )
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron by Barnes John
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Barnes, John [Barnes, John]

8 ‘LOVE CONQUERS ALL’ Undoubtedly the noisiest place in the world on August 23,1947, was the port of Buenos Aires. Evita was coming home. A chill breeze off the Rio ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 20,2017 )
Rebels in White Gloves by Miriam Horn
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Miriam Horn [Horn, Miriam]

CHAPTER SIX Balancing Work and Family When it was first published in 1899, Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening was branded a threat to woman’s virtue and the nation’s good. “Too ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 20,2017 )
Impossible Life of Mary Benson, The by Bolt Rodney
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Bolt, Rodney

FRED REMEMBERS SUNDAY AFTERNOONS AT ADDINGTON, IN OUR FAMILY AFFAIRS There was early communion in the chapel. . . [then] morning service in the church was succeeded by lunch, lunch ...
( Category: Great Britain September 20,2017 )
The Spanish Armadas by Winston Graham
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Graham [Graham, Winston]

Look and bow down thine ear, oh Lord, From thy bright sphere behold and see Thy handmaid and thy handiwork; Amongst thy priests offering to thee Zeal for incense reaching ...
( Category: Europe September 20,2017 )
The Pirate Queen by Barbara Sjoholm
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Sjoholm [Sjoholm, Barbara]

BACK IN Tórshavn, I sneaked into the guesthouse while the landlady was in the kitchen. I had half-expected my room to have been cleaned out while I was gone, but ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 20,2017 )
In Our Image by Stanley Karnow
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Stanley Karnow [Karnow, Stanley]

Harrison’s record, the inspired account read, was “not considered creditable either to himself or to the [Wilson] administration.” During his term, “American sovereignty in the islands had been undermined, Filipino ...
( Category: Asia September 20,2017 )
Not In Kansas Anymore by Christine Wicker
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Christine Wicker

8. The Vegetarian Vampire and the Wooden-Headed Death Puppet Have Something to Say In our first conversation Mistress Tracy, Queen of the Vampires, told me that as a child she ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 20,2017 )

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