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epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Simon Webb [Webb, Simon]

Chapter 6 Florence Nightingale in Scutari 1854–1855: ‘A Lady with a Lamp shall stand, In the great history of the Land’ Florence Nightingale is the very epitome of one of ...
( Category: African History March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves [Graves, Charles L.]

This was his princely thought: With all his varied wisdom to repay Our trust and love, which on that Bridal Day The Daughter of the Isles for dowry brought. For ...
( Category: Europe March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves [Graves, Charles L.]

* * * VANITY FAIR In the fifty years that had passed since Punch's birth in 1841, "Society," as it was then understood, had undergone a revolution which not only ...
( Category: Europe March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves [Graves, Charles L.]

My aged employer, his whole physiognomy Shining with soap like a star in astronomy, Said "Mr. Cox, you'll oblige me and honour me If you will take this as your ...
( Category: Europe March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Eliza Burt Gamble [Gamble, Eliza Burt]

Although the fact seems to be well substantiated that in certain portions of the earth, and at various periods in the history of the race, women have maintained their independence ...
( Category: Women in History March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson [Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson]

References BERNSTEIN, WALTER. Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist (New York: Knopf, 1996). BIGNELL, JONATHAN. ‘And the Rest is History: Lew Grade, Creation Narratives and Television Historiography.’ In CATHERINE ...
( Category: other March 1,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Paul B. Johnson

( Category: 20th Century March 1,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Paul B. Johnson

( Category: other March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-11-06 | Author:Jonathan Clements;

The Continuation War The end of the Winter War came as something of a surprise for the Finns in Helsinki, who had heard nothing but stirring tales of heroism, and ...
( Category: African History March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-08 | Author:John S. Lindsay [Lindsay, John S.]

October 13th, Madam Scheller opened her second engagement, playing six nights, and gave "Roll of the Drum," "Child of the Regiment," "Enoch Arden," etc. The theatre closed from the 18th ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-20 | Author:Edward Skidelsky [Skidelsky, Edward]

59 Victoria Kahn notes that Descartes’ ‘ideal of self-government has much in common with the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.’ Victoria Kahn, ‘Happy Tears: Baroque Politics in Descartes’ Passions de l’âme’, in ...
( Category: History February 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Elizabeth White [White, Elizabeth]

6 Post-war Soviet childhoods, 1953–91 Introduction Children are our future, our joy and happiness. Our first thoughts are about them. Theirs must be a life of smiles. For their sake, ...
( Category: African History February 28,2023 )