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The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A.N. Wilson

24 The Side of the Angels ON LOW SUNDAY, 1873, a new curate arrived in Wapping, to serve at the mission church, St Peter’s, London Docks. He was Lincoln Stanhope ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Miss Confederation by Anne McDonald
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Anne McDonald

* * * * A bumper is a glass full to the brim of an alcoholic drink and is usually drunk as a toast. ** The Ottawa and Prescott Railway ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Our Times by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2008-08-25 | Author:A. N. Wilson

16 The Decline of the Roman Catholic Church The dissolution of the Church of England during our times was an inevitability. That Church had originated in a time when its ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 25,2017 )
London by A.N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:A.N. Wilson

The Victorians made much of the cult of home and for that reason needed refuges from it. The simple chophouses and coffeehouses of a previous age survived. But restaurants became ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
After the Victorians by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:A. N. Wilson

The cryptic crossword and the whodunnit mystery story were two distinctive products of their time, expressions no doubt of the belief that if one could only worry at a problem ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson [Wilson, A. N.]

In times when nothing stood But worsened, or grew strange, There was one constant good: She did not change.75 Philip Larkin’s quatrain for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 neatly ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
Coming of Age by Deborah Beatriz Blum
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Beatriz Blum

18 HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA Margaret, we must have a little child together someday. In or out of wedlock. I just feel the mystical necessity. —EDWARD SAPIR July 1925 While they were ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:Madeleine Blais

Given the pressures of their lives—pressures invisible to outsiders blinded by the peak foliage of youth, the ease, the grace, the beauty of adolescence—some of the Hurricanes found going into ...
( Category: Basketball August 25,2017 )
Gunpowder Plots by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | 2005-09-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

father, or your mother, or some of your nearest and dearest relations, tied to a stake in the midst of flames, when with hands and eyes lifted up to heaven, ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
The Diaries of Nella Last by Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson

CHAPTER TWELVE A SORT OF PEACE September 1945–January 1946 Thursday, 20 September. The years slipped back to six years ago, when war had only started and we were sewing cloth ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
The Book of Books by Melvyn Bragg
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 25,2017 )
God and His Demons by Michael Parenti
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Michael Parenti [Parenti, Michael]

FOR GOD AND CAPITALISM Christianists worldwide are involved in a "renewalist" movement involving Pentecostals and charismatics who practice "the gifts of the Holy Spirit," such as glossolalia and prophesying. Renewal- ...
( Category: Religious Studies August 25,2017 )
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Steven K. Green [Green, Steven K.]

Further examples of Washington’s penchant for religious allusions are found in his two presidential thanksgiving declarations (1789, 1795), where he refers to the “many signal favors of Almighty God,” the ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States by Stollznow Karen
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Stollznow, Karen [Stollznow, Karen]

Chapter 6 Sympathy for the Devil Satanism “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” —Paradise Lost At a dinner party, my friend Louise asked the table, “If ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts August 25,2017 )
Tales Behind the Tombstones by Enss Chris
epub |eng | | Author:Enss, Chris

Bob Ford d. 1892 “Instantly his real purpose flashed upon my mind. I knew I had not fooled him. He was too sharp for that. He knew at that moment ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )

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