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epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mark Pendergrast [Pendergrast, Mark]
During the fifties, coffee became an accepted part of American life, sanctioned by the police as an aid to safety. In 1954, when outraged Americans blamed Brazil for artificially boosting ...
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Coffee & Tea
March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joann Fletcher
PART FIVE Chapter 9 The Inimitable Life: Antonius and Conspicuous Consumption In 41 BC Marcus Antonius, Triumvir, Imperator and victor of Philippi, requested the presence of the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra ...
( Category:
Middle East
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Lev [Lev, Elizabeth]
14. BLINDED BY LOVE AS CATERINA CONTINUED her affair with Giacomo Feo, the political landscape in Italy was altering dramatically and dangerously. The distractions of her private life would blind ...
( Category:
Royalty
March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Anne Somerset [Somerset, Anne]
The Whigs hoped to receive some redress when a new Bishop of Exeter was named, and after the Bishop of Chester died in early 1707 they assumed that he too ...
( Category:
Royalty
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Alice Roberts
An Archaeological Puzzle: Zhujiatun, China From around 1,000,000 to 30,000 years ago, the stone tools of East Asia are predominantly fairly crude, Oldowan-style pebble and flake tools. The archaeology of ...
( Category:
Biology
March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:David Bodanis [Bodanis, David]
17 Frederick FLANDERS AND PRUSSIA, 1740–1741 In June 1740 Frederick's father did finally die, which meant that the young, timid Frederick was now king, and Voltaire could begin his plan. ...
( Category:
Renaissance
March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]
This lack of self-esteem is a recurrent characteristic of serial killers, and explains cases that otherwise seem baffling. It can be seen clearly in another case that was ongoing at ...
( Category:
Specific Groups
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Susan Ronald
FIFTEEN Massacre in Paris And with this weight I’ll counterpoise a crown, Or with seditions weary all the world. —The Massacre at Paris, act 1, scene 2 by Christopher Marlowe ...
( Category:
Women in History
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jon E. Lewis
The Deputy Commandant Kicks a Baby to Death, Treblinka Railway Station, 1 September 1942 FRANCISZEK ZABECKI The writer was a railwayman at Treblinka railway station. Fugitives from the death camp ...
( Category:
Holocaust
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Philip Ziegler [Ziegler, Philip]
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Chichester “I know nothing about Festivals or how they are run,” Olivier told an enquirer in 1952. “I have no signposts to show you, and know of no ...
( Category:
Actors & Entertainers
March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]
INTERMEZZO Entrances to Other Worlds The Mediterranean, the Orient, and the Atlantic The scourge of heaven’s wrath in the hands of the inhuman Tartars, erupting as it were from the ...
( Category:
Women in History
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Kris Waldherr
The humanist glories of the Renaissance did not extend to the royal women of this era. During this dangerous period, there were two primary forces threatening to push queens off ...
( Category:
Royalty
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Rediker, Marcus [Rediker, Marcus]
Sailors, Slaves, and Violence The Liverpool writer “Dicky Sam” described the violent reality of the slave ship this way: “the captain bullies the men, the men torture the slaves, the ...
( Category:
History
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-05 | Author:Susan Griffin
MARION DAVIES Chapter Five Gaiety (or Joie de Vivre) Kiss the joy as it flies. —WILLIAM BLAKE THE CAPACITY TO take pleasure in life is no less a virtue than ...
( Category:
History
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sheila Hale
Titian took the cue for his large, stormy Ecce Homo (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) from Aretino’s Humanity of Christ, first published in 1535, in which the writer had added his own ...
( Category:
Artists, Architects & Photographers
March 25,2014 )
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