mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Caroline Moorehead

As they neared the gates, Josée, who was walking at the front, sent back an urgent message down the lines: ‘When you get near, run.’ It was now that the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Jennifer Burns

CHAPTER EIGHT Love Is Exception Making BY THE MIDDLE of the 1960s Rand’s popularity among young conservatives, her open support of Goldwater, and the continued appeal of her books had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:Henry Patterson

Her Majesty's Government is not allowing the Northern Ireland Government to do what they want to do: to issue statements about a timetable for proper action against the Catholic barricades ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]

15 INTERLUDE Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and the Defence of Paganism Among the thousands of items on display in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, it is ...

mobi |eng | 2008-07-12 | Author:Fatima Mernissi

But the most successful pioneering champion of women's rights, as far as the terrace audience was concerned, was Huda Sha`raoui, an aristocratic Egyptian beauty, born in 1879, who bewitched Egypt's ...

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I would never have committed theft. I know that one is not supposed to do that. In the bad times [prewar depression years] I was a saleswoman, and I had ...

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18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

In 1926, Philadelphia held a world’s fair, called the Sesquicentennial Exposition, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The enterprise was a fiasco from the start. The ...