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mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-04-18 | Author:Ibn Rashid, Mamar,Anthony, Sean W.

21.1.3 Maʿmar said: Qatādah said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb replied, “Two swords cannot fit in a single scabbard; rather, the commanders are to come from our ranks and the aides236 from ...
( Category: Historical November 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]

The first published account of the trials of Essex and his associates, written in their immediate wake by Francis Bacon, is explicit about Meyrick's purported motive in procuring the performance: ...
( Category: British & Irish November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-29 | Author:Michael Coveney [Coveney, Michael]

The pig is finally slaughtered while Maggie drowns out its squeals with her piano-playing and the pageantry of England is celebrated in a party in the sitting room. Maggie’s Joyce, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Lucian Randall [Lucian Randall]

Maine Road stadium was the home of Gallagher’s beloved Manchester City. It stood in the Moss Side district of the city and the club was based there from 1923 until ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Shawcross, William [William, Shawcross,]

At one communal feeding centre, there was a moment, noted Woolton, at which 'a very dirty child' in its mother's arms grabbed at the Queen's pearls. A photographer ran around ...
( Category: Europe November 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Elaine Showalter

THE CIVIL WAR The 1860s were the ten most momentous years of Julia’s life. In 1860, she was forty-one years old. She had given birth to her sixth child, but ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Amy Wallace & Irving Wallace [Wallace, Amy]

An elopement was agreed upon [wrote Judge Graves]. Of course it was to have been kept profoundly secret. The plan agreed upon was this: For a time the matter was ...
( Category: Historical October 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Patrick Barclay

Welcome to Hell For United – no matter what happened to Liverpool – things had to get better. And they did, but only after they had got worse. The season ...
( Category: Biographies October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-20 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

CHAPTER NINE I Spy, With My Little Eye … ‘Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was doing that work I used to think that it didn’t ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-19 | Author:Hector Cook [Bilyeu, Melinda]

23 A NOT SO GOLDEN GARTER STEPHEN WAS BARELY a month old when he moved with his parents and maternal grandparents to a rented house on Glencrutchery Road in Douglas ...
( Category: Arts & Photography October 19,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Sarff, Julie [Sarff, Julie]

Chapter 17 Two days later, the Prince and I find ourselves finally making our way across Scotland, heading for Northern Ireland. It has been a wild past few days. I’ve ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense October 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:John Birmingham [Birmingham, John]

Mr Oakes, – You will inform the persons who sent you here with the warrant you have now shewn me, and given me a copy of, that I never will ...
( Category: History October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1854-07-15 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

Chapter III * "Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson," continued Grandfather, "now began to be unquiet in our old chair. He had formerly been much respected and beloved by the people, and had often ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Paton, Maureen [Paton, Maureen]

9. IMMORTAL LONGINGS THE FOYER OF the Royal Court Theatre in London’s Sloane Square is well accustomed to the odd loud-mouthed wino who comes in from the cold steps outside. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-25 | Author:Ferris, D.X. [Ferris, D.X.]

“I shaved it, for no reason apart from wanting to do something different,” King told Metal Hammer’s Kirk Blows. “The tattoos… I thought about it for a couple months, because ...
( Category: Arts & Photography October 15,2017 )

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