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mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Walt Whitman
The Last Invocation At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortress’d house, From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let ...
( Category:
United States
November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]
2 Except when it can be exploited for demagogic ends. When in the year 2000 Magdalen College, Oxford, didn’t offer a place to a young woman from a state school ...
( Category:
Historiography
November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Levi, Primo [Levi, Primo]
It was already night. Contrary to what the sergeant had led us to believe, the most sumptuous abundance reigned inside the barracks; there were lighted stoves, candles and acetylene lamps, ...
( Category:
Holocaust
November 24,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Russell, Gerard [Russell, Gerard]
The Samaritans have preserved carefully over the generations their ancient scrolls, which record a Torah that differs somewhat from the Jewish one. Here in 1905 a Samaritan priest displays one ...
( Category:
Ethnic & Tribal
November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
‘Portrait of Count Jean-Baptiste Drouet d’Erlon, Marshal of France’, by Ary Scheffer: d’Erlon’s superior numbers and crack troops came within a whisker of breaking Wellington’s army. Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte, ...
( Category:
Naval
November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Jerry Toner [Toner, Jerry]
COMMENTARY Falx’s tougher side re-emerges in this chapter. But the physical punishment of slaves by their Roman masters was normal, acceptable and routine. In Roman comedies by Plautus, for example, ...
( Category:
Rome
November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Catherine Higgs [Higgs, Catherine]
Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. From Collection A2717-32, by permission of Historical Papers, William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. By 1898, when the city became the capital, 4,902 ...
( Category:
Discrimination & Racism
November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Paterson
5 ELIZABETH II, 1952–PRESENT ‘Voluntary change is the life-blood of the Crown.’ Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning monarch in British history. ...
( Category:
Great Britain
November 24,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Alison Plowden
No one, of course, supposed for a moment that the King would put up with the unsatisfactory state of his marital affairs for long, and the only question in most ...
( Category:
England
November 24,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-21 | Author:Sharan Newman [Newman, Sharan]
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Fifth Monarchy We therefore freely, of a ready minde, and with a most chearful heart . . . give up our lives and estates unto our Lord ...
( Category:
Prophecy
November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Buckley, Veronica
Christina and Azzolino swiftly became important to each other for reasons apart from their mutual love. She became politically useful to him, and he, in turn, gave her something to ...
( Category:
Sweden
November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Eleanor Roosevelt [Roosevelt, Eleanor]
Twenty-three Visit to England IN RETROSPECT, the thing that strikes me about these days is my triple-barreled effort to work with the OCD, carry out my official engagements, and still ...
( Category:
Women
November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John M. Merriman
The young Montmartre resident Sutter-Laumann, who had gone to work at the mairie of the Eighteenth Arrondissement the day before, was among those drawing fire near place Clichy. He quickly ...
( Category:
France
November 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
Domesticity Without the Science Ellen Richards and her colleagues never doubted the eventual success of their movement. Once she fantasized about “the college woman in 1950”: She will be so ...
( Category:
United States
November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Sinclair, Anne [Sinclair, Anne]
The meeting between Paul and Picasso took place that summer before the end of the First World War. The Rosenbergs had taken a villa in Biarritz, a few hundred yards ...
( Category:
France
November 23,2014 )
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