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January 12, 2025

Michigan’s Strychnine Saint The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight

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Free Download Tobin T Buhk, "Michigan’s Strychnine Saint: The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight"
English | ISBN: 1540222586 | 2014 | 194 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The spring of 1903 proved disastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died in her crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasm before she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and child to the grave after suffering from a crippling convulsion. While neighbors whispered about a curse and physicians feared a contagious disease, Kalkaska County sheriff John W. Creighton and prosecuting attorney Ernest C. Smith searched for answers. As they probed deeper into the suspicious deaths, they uncovered a wicked web of intrigue. And at the center stood a widow in a black taffeta dress.

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January 10, 2025

Saint-Germain-Des-Prés Travel Guide

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Free Download Saint-Germain-Des-Prés Travel Guide: Unveiling The Bohemian Soul of Paris by Avery Whitlock
English | October 14, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DK434GXY | 244 pages | EPUB | 24 Mb
Discover the charm of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, one of Paris’s most iconic and culturally rich neighborhoods, with this immersive travel guide.Perfectly blending history, culture, and local secrets, Saint-Germain-des-Prés Travel Guide takes you beyond the tourist hotspots to uncover the soul of this vibrant area.

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January 2, 2025

The Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre The mysteries of a crime of state

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Free Download Arlette Jouanna, "The Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre: The mysteries of a crime of state"
English | ISBN: 071909755X | 2015 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France’s Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of concord followed so quickly by such unrestrained carnage?

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December 9, 2024

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 2 Spiritual Master

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Free Download Jean Pierre Torrell, Jean-Pierre Torrell, Robert Royal, "Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 2: Spiritual Master"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0813213169 | PDF | pages: 438 | 1.4 mb
Following his highly acclaimed study of the life and works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., continues his masterful work on the great Dominican theologian and brings an immense learning to bear on a subject that most readers have not considered very carefully: Thomas’s spirituality. Aquinas’s intellectual power is evident to anyone who has had even modest exposure to his work. Understanding the spiritual impetus behind that massive achievement, however, requires careful attention to the whole Thomistic corpus and a subtle understanding of several crucial works, particularly Thomas’s sermons and commentaries on Scripture. In this long-awaited sequel to Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Person and His Work, Father Torrell brilliantly lays out the theoretical background to Thomas’s spirituality. He shows that Aquinas’s theology is clearly oriented towards contemplation and is as deeply spiritual as it is doctrinal.

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September 16, 2024

The Corsairs of Saint-Malo Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime

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Free Download Henning Hillmann, "The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime "
English | ISBN: 0231180381 | 2021 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 17 MB
Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe.

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