Pamela Nagami

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War & Military

429

Mandell Creighton - Cardinal Wolsey

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulment of King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The eminent British...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 30 minutes

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War & Military

416

Arthur Hassall - Mazarin

Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Though a cardinal, he was not a priest and was probably secretly married to the...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 11 minutes

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Animals

612

Fleming Mant Sandwith - Sleeping Sickness

In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks.The protozoan parasite...

Pamela Nagami 2 hours 29 minutes

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Memoirs

509

Woodes Rogers - Cruising Voyage Around the World

First to the South-seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711. Containing a Journal of All the Remarkable Transactions; Particularly, of the Taking of...

Jim Rowland and 5 more 15 hours 33 minutes

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War & Military

436

William Holden Hutton - Philip Augustus

Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II was locked in combat with his rebellious offspring, Philip and his loyal son,...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

446

Percy Bysshe Shelley - History of a Six Weeks' Tour

Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni , this small journal...

BettyB and 2 more 2 hours 19 minutes

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Poetry

603

Oscar Wilde - Charmides, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by Oscar Wilde, containing some of his rather famous longer poetry in the first part, and a section of sonnets in the second part of the book. — Summary by Carolin

Tomas Peter and 7 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

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Allen H. Godbey - Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

«Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment. A large proportion of the calamities reported from day to day are directly due...

Mike Pelton and 13 more 15 hours 27 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

456

Bram Stoker - Famous Impostors

Aliases. Fraudsters. Confidence tricksters. People pretending to be what they are not, for financial, political or personal gain. Fiction is filled with them to entertain us; but would not be anywhere near as...

Bridget Paul and 8 more 8 hours 48 minutes

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War & Military

396

Thomas Hodgkin - Life of Charlemagne

Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he «was a...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 19 minutes

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War & Military

435

James Franck Bright - Maria Theresa

By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of his daughter, Maria Theresa, but practically nothing to train her how to...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 11 minutes

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War & Military

392

Archibald Primrose - Pitt

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), the controversial young prime minister who led Great Britain during...

Pamela Nagami 9 hours 30 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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