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Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi by Olivier Magny
mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Olivier Magny

House Parties Tourists visiting Paris may be disappointed by the Parisian bar and going-out scene. The main reason behind this is that young Parisians do not go out as much ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
The War of Wars by Robert Harvey
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Robert Harvey

Chapter 51 THE GRENVILLE INTERLUDE When Pitt died at the end of January 1806, William, Lord Grenville, Pitt’s brilliant cousin, formed the Ministry of All Talents, so named for its ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Making of Modern Britain by Marr Andrew
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Marr, Andrew [Marr, Andrew]

There were worse worlds for revolutionaries, and more serious revolutionaries too. In the final days of a freezing November in 1923 in a grimy street in Pollockshaws, just outside Glasgow, ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
mobi |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Piers Brendon

This verdict was heard in other parts of Africa painted red on the map. Settler colonies in particular seemed bent on following the Boer example: one Cewa chief complained that ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus & Roberts Deborah
mobi |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Aeschylus & Roberts, Deborah [Roberts, Deborah]

Endnotes Here I note departures from the text of Griffith’s edition (Griffith 1983) and a few other textual issues. i. 431 (409 in the Greek): “in the west.” Here I ...
( Category: Theater March 25,2014 )
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-02-04 | Author:Joan Druett

JAMES MAHONEY, WRECKED WITH THE SHIP INVERCAULD. MAY 10th ‘64. It was August 12, 1864, almost exactly three months from the time when the Invercauld had foundered. FOURTEEN Equinox Sunday, ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Tunzelmann Alex Von
mobi |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Tunzelmann, Alex Von [Tunzelmann, Alex Von]

TEN DAYS after the transfer of power, the scale and awfulness of what was under way had still not been realized in Delhi. “We are only just alive,” wrote Edwina ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Anthony Everitt

8 THE IDEAL CONSTITUTION Writing about Politics: 55–43 BC Now that he was no longer able to play an active role in the conduct of affairs, Cicero decided to find ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1 by Edward Gibbon
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Part VI. Athanasius had indeed escaped from the most imminent dangers; and the adventures of that extraordinary man deserve and fix our attention. On the memorable night when the church ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
The Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Stewart O'Nan

An officer stands guard over pieces of the northeast chute to be used as evidence. PHOTO BY PAUL R. SHAFER, COURTESY OF MR. SHAFER HIMSELF They arrived in time to ...
( Category: New England March 25,2014 )
Hit List by Lawrence Block
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-02-05 | Author:Lawrence Block

Seventeen * * * “It’s been a while,” Maggie Griscomb said. They were in her loft on Crosby Street. Keller’s clothes were neatly folded on the couch, while Maggie’s lay ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled March 25,2014 )
Standing Up to the Madness by Goodman Amy; Goodman David
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Goodman, Amy; Goodman, David [Goodman, Amy; Goodman, David]

One way to answer this question is to examine history. The phrase [“enhanced interrogation”] has a lineage. Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the ...
( Category: Social Activists March 25,2014 )
Idiot America by Charles P. Pierce
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Charles P. Pierce

IN Derby Line in Vermont, they put their public library on the ground floor of the old opera house, cleanly melding public information and public entertainment. Curiously, though, down the ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )

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