![]() ![]() Facts and images concerning the historical figure featured in the book are given at the end of each of the books. The series is fictional, though it involves real historical figures. Unlike Dear America, which consisted of diaries of young girls living during pivotal periods in American history, The Royal Diaries is a series that features women of royalty from all over the world. While Dear America, My Name Is America, and My America were all cancelled in 2004, The Royal Diaries continued until 2005. ![]() ![]() The Royal Diaries was a spin-off of Scholastic's popular Dear America series. In each of the books, a fictional diary of a real female figure of royalty as a child throughout world history was written by the author. The Royal Diaries is a series of 20 books published by Scholastic Press from 1999 to 2005. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The book itself is really lovely, filled with lots of great images from medieval manuscripts. He allows for political and social factors to play into the development of the papacy instead of just seeing it as progressive stages of a continuous ideological battle between the papacy and the empire (though some will probably feel Barraclough goes too far in the opposite direction). There are some good points, though - Barraclough is relatively fair to most of the popes he deals with, rarely demonizing or idealizing them. There are a frustrating amount of times where Barraclough will pass over important details or refrain from giving detailed reasons for his assertions, and the reader just has to take him at his word. While he does do a pretty good job given the parameters he's working with, it's just much too short, filled with oversimplifications and a lack of necessary context. Honestly, I'm not sure there's a way to cover 1500 years of papal history in less than 200 pages, as Barraclough tries to do here. A not-terrible but not-great overview of the medieval papacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kant sketches out here what is to follow. The second Critique exercised a decisive influence over the subsequent development of the field of ethics and moral philosophy, beginning with Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Doctrine of Science and becoming, during the 20th century, the principal reference point for deontological moral philosophy. While Kant had already published one significant work in moral philosophy, the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785), the Critique of Practical Reason was intended to both cover a wider scope and place his ethical views within the larger framework of his system of critical philosophy. It follows on from Kant's first critique, the Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his moral philosophy. The Critique of Practical Reason ( German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, published in 1788. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guillame Delacroix from Accor told newspaper Dziennik Wschodni: “Our aim from the very beginning was recreating the legend and reviving the train…We are restoring the luxury character of 17 original carriages dated between the 1920s and 30s”. Futur OEīought by French hotel giant Accor in 2018 and taken to Paris using special tow trucks under a police escort, the carriages have since been undergoing meticulous restoration. ![]() Originally discovered in 2015 decaying by the wayside in the eastern village of Małaszewicze, the carriages included sleepers, a bar and dining room, and baggage and bathing cars.Ĭommissioned by ACCOR, the renovations have been carried out by French architect Maxime d’Angeac. The legendary Orient Express is to make a spectacular return following the loving restoration of 17 of the train’s original carriages found in Poland. The painstaking renovation of the carriages found in the village of Małaszewicze will see the train return to its former grandeur and is set to make a return to its original Paris to Istanbul route in 2025. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sonnet 9: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow’s Eye Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear’st Thou Music Sadly? Sonnet 7: Lo! In The Orient When The Gracious Light Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter’s Ragged Hand Deface Sonnet 5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame ![]() Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend Sonnet 3: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase ![]() Take your pick from the list of Shakespeare sonnets below (or learn how to write a sonnet of your own!): Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]() ![]() "The Annihilation Score" was set during the summer of 2013, in a UK suffering from a surplus of superheroes (or at least extradimensional brain-eater afflicted humans experiencing outbreaks of eldritch powers before their heads exploded: some of whom assumed that donning skin tight lycra and committing vigilante crimes was a sensible reaction to being parasitized). ![]() ![]() It should be fairly obvious by now that, although initially the stories were set in the same year as publication, the Laundry universe has now dropped behind the real world calendar and diverged drastically from our own history. ![]() The Nightmare Stacks has been reissued in paperback in the UK and as a lower cost ebook in the USA, and The Delirium Brief is nearly upon us, so it's about time for me to write my usual crib sheet essay about the seventh Laundry Files novel! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The duo are then shoved together over and over again until they fall into each other’s arms, and then into bed. Per romantic book formula, their initial encounter is fraught with miscommunication and both sides are left thinking the other person is hot but insufferable. One day she discovers an abandoned newborn in the bathroom of the library and is met by newly divorced Sheriff John. Molly moves from Colorado after she breaks up with her finance to be the new children’s librarian at the Little Bridges Library in the Florida Keys. The writing is fine, but the two characters aren’t interesting, the romance is very clunky and the side plots kind of ridiculous. ![]() It’s not the worst I’ve read, but I won’t remember what this book is about in a week. My overall feeling about this contemporary romance book is a solid “meh”. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, Christy's mother trips down the stairs while in labour and Christy was the only person home to see it. He is loved and supported by his family, especially his mother. Doctors discover he has severe cerebral palsy. ![]() In 1932, Christy Brown is born into a Dublin family of 15. In 2018, the British Film Institute ranked it as the 53rd greatest British film of the 20th century. At the 62nd Academy Awards, the film received five nominations, including for the Best Picture, with Day-Lewis and Fricker winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. Reviewers praised the film's screenplay and direction, its message, and especially the performances of Day-Lewis and Fricker, while the film grossed $14.7 million on a £600,000 budget. The film was theatrically released on 24 February 1989 to critical and commercial success. ![]() Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally, Hugh O'Conor, Fiona Shaw, and Cyril Cusack are featured in supporting roles. ![]() Brown grew up in a poor working-class family, and became a writer and artist. A co-production of Ireland and the United Kingdom, it stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown, an Irish man born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, also known simply as My Left Foot, is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown. ![]() ![]() Katie Mack has been contemplating these questions since she was a young student, when her astronomy professor informed her the universe could end at any moment, in an instant. But what happens to the universe at the end of the story? And what does it mean for us now? Dr. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. ![]() Ī NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an "engrossing, elegant" (The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.We know the universe had a beginning. ![]() ![]() With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all. ![]() A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an "engrossing, elegant" (The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.We know the universe had a beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. ![]() In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. ![]() Drawing on the true story of the White Rose-the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime-The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny during one of history's darkest hours. Readers of The Alice Project and The Lost Girls of Paris will be enthralled by V.S. Description Fans of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club picks eager for their next moving historical novel-look no further! ![]() |