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Free Download The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4WN6VRV | 2024 | 8 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Sophie Shorland
Narrator: Ruth Lass
Despite Catherine of Braganza’s crucial place in British history, and that of its Empire, she has since been overshadowed by stories of the king’s many mistresses and forgotten as Charles’ boring, powerless wife. This could not be further from the truth. In an absorbing narrative, historian Sophie Shorland not only tells the full story of this long-overlooked figure and her difficult relationship with Charles II, but also reveals how Catherine changed the country in ways both large and small: part of her dowry was Bombay, Britain’s first territory on the Indian subcontinent; she also popularized trousers for women, Baroque art and music, and-perhaps most long-lastingly-tea drinking.

Free Download F*** You Very Much: The surprising truth about why people are so rude by Danny Wallace
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07DFQV2RB | 8 hours and 11 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 225 Mb
Random House presents the audiobook edition of F*** You Very Much, written and read by Danny Wallace.
You’re not imagining it. People are getting ruder. And this is a serious problem.
The book that inspired the iTunes Top Ten podcast.

Free Download Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner, Dan Schreiber, Janina Ramirez
English | October 28, 2021 | ISBN: B091D1CDQR | 11 hours and 4 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 307 Mb
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? When was the first Monday? What were history’s weirdest medical procedures that actually worked? How much horse manure was splattered on the streets of Tudor London? How fast was the medieval Chinese postal system? What did The Flintstones get right about the Stone Age? Who gets to name historical eras, and what will ours be called in 100 years’ time? How do we know how people sounded in the past? How old is sign language?
In Ask a Historian, the author, BBC podcaster and public historian Greg Jenner provides answers to things you always wondered about but didn’t know who to ask. Responding to 50 genuine questions from the public, Greg whisks you off on an entertaining tour through the ages, revealing the best and most surprising stories, facts and historical characters from the past. Bouncing through a wide range of subjects – from ancient jokebooks, African empires and bizarre tales of medicinal cannibalism, to the invention of meringues, mirrors and menstrual pads – Ask a Historian spans the Stone Age to the Swinging Sixties and offers up a deliciously amusing and informative smorgasbord of historical curiosities, devoured one morsel at a time.
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Free Download Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation by Robyn Arianrhod
English | July 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 0226821102 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 7.26 MB
‘The story I’ll tell here is about the evolution of the way we humans record and make sense of all the data that swirl around us…’

Free Download The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History by Peter Charles Hoffer
English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1479830224 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 0.56 MB
A history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the land

Free Download The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch by Sophie Shorland
English | June 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1838956395 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 13.76 MB
Despite Catherine of Braganza’s crucial place in British history, and that of its Empire, she has since been overshadowed by stories of the king’s many mistresses and forgotten as Charles’ boring, powerless wife. This could not be further from the truth.

Free Download Taste: Surprising Stories and Science About Why Food Tastes Good by Barb Stuckey
English | March 13th, 2012 | ISBN: 1439190747 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 4.14 MB
Whether it’s a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup or a salted caramel coated in dark chocolate, you know when food tastes good-now here’s the amazing story behind why you love some foods and can’t tolerate others.

Free Download Jon Sutherland, Stephen Fender, "Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature"
English | 2011 | pages: 544 | ISBN: 1848312474, 1848311648 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval – the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature’s rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer. Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the nose on 14 April 1949 in this sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of literature’s bejewelled past.

Free Download Vector
by Arianrhod, Robyn;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0226821102 | 474 pages | True PDF | 8.9 MB

Free Download Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRXN7N2 | 2024 | 13 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Richard J. King
Narrator: William Hope
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone. Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious-and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world’s largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening.