Tag: Chronicle

Tsar An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders [Audiobook]


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English | September 06, 2018 | ASIN: B07GH97LNL | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 22m | 282.89 MB
Author: Mike Walker
Narrator: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, full cast, Hattie Morahan

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars.

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Hölderlin’s Madness Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843


Free Download Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843 (The Italian List) by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Alta L. Price
English | March 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1803091150 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 6.4 MB
One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.

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Communicating Through a Pandemic A Chronicle of Experiences, Lessons Learned, and a Vision for the Future


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032212543 | 216 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3.3 MB
Outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics are nothing new. Over the last several decades, we have been through numerous-Zika, Ebola, H1N1. The COVID‐19 pandemic, however, has challenged us like never before. During this time, we have struggled to work remotely, to balance work and children’s school schedules, and to manage finances in the face of lost or furloughed jobs. We have worried about our loved ones getting sick and being able to support themselves, and we have faced the loneliness that comes with social distancing.

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The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis


Free Download Karen Williman, Daniel / Corsano, "The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis "
English | ISBN: 1501518712 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E IV: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in the abbey library of St-Denis-en-France. The authors shed new light on the production process, identifying the illuminator of the Royal MS and naming the scribe. Detailed evidence links the codex to important events in history, such as the Council of Constance, and famous actors like Jean de France, duc de Berry, Sigismund of Luxembourg, Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and Henry VIII, to name a few. The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex. Another dimension of this study accounts for all twenty-two copies of the Chronicle, now scattered in nine cities from London to Vienna, placing each one in a scrupulously drawn stemma codicum and sketching its history.

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Hell’s Highway Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September – November 1944


Free Download George Koskimaki, "Hell’s Highway: Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September – November 1944"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1612000738, 193203305X | EPUB | pages: 504 | 4.7 mb
Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the "Screaming Eagles" part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands.

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The Lancashire Witches A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill


Free Download Philip C. Almond, "The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill"
English | ISBN: 1350239917 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery. And it was around Pendle Hill, a sombre ridge that looms over the intersecting pastures, meadows and moorland of the Ribble Valley, that their suspicions took infamous shape. The arraignment of the Lancashire witches in the assizes of Lancaster during 1612 is England’s most notorious witch-trial. The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused alongside the so-called Samlesbury Witches, then convicted and hanged, were more than just wicked sorcerers whose malign incantations caused others harm. They were reputed to be part of a dense network of devilry and mischief that revealed itself as much in hidden celebration of the Mass as in malevolent magic. They had to be eliminated to set an example to others.

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