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Free Download The Winchester Powerhouse by Anthony Paice
English | 28 Nov. 2024 | ISBN: 1835740839 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.9 MB
Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred holders of the high ecclesiastical office. Characterised overwhelmingly by benevolence, the pre-Conquest prelates were at the forefront of the reconversion of southern Britain to Christianity.

Free Download Oliver Winchester: La vida y el legado del famoso fabricante de rifles estadounidense (Spanish Edition) by Charles River Editors
Spanish | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DCGK7F8X | 71 pages | EPUB | 2.17 Mb
Cuando nació el industrial de las armas Oliver Winchester, la expedición de Lewis y Clark enviada al Pacífico por Thomas Jefferson acababa de regresar con su informe sobre el primer viaje continental por tierra. Aparte de un pequeño grupo de montañeses que trampeaban y comerciaban con pieles para los magnates europeos de la moda, pocos colonos blancos habían logrado cruzar las Grandes Llanuras. Las armas de fuego de la Revolución mostraban poca diferencia entre el mosquete de pedernal de un soldado y un arma de caza sacada del manto.

Free Download Andrew Thomson, "Bishop Morley of Winchester 1598-1684: Politician, Benefactor, Pragmatist"
English | ISBN: 1906113270 | 2019 | 140 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book attempts to offer an authoritative account of the life and achievements of George Morley. Morley was for years a teacher at Christ Church Oxford, subsequently Dean of the College, then Bishop of Worcester and, finally, Bishop of Winchester. These appointments would, in themselves, have made him an important figure in the history of seventeenth century England; but Morley in fact played a huge part, far beyond the confines of the University of Oxford and the Dioceses of Worcester and Winchester, nationally, in the political and religious developments of his time. He played key roles in the restoration of the king in 1660 and in the subsequent attempts to achieve a settlement – the beginnings of the search for church unity – in the 1660s and 1670s, dying in the 1680s, just before Charles II himself.

Free Download Mary Jo Ignoffo, "Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune"
English | 2010 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 0826222706 | EPUB | 4,6 mb
Captive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She built additions to the house and continued construction for the next twenty years. When neighbors and the local press could not imagine her motivations, they invented fanciful ones of their own. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to thwart death and appease the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle.