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The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on this monarchy — which saw violent urban...

The quaint Amalfi Coast town of Sorrento has beautiful architecture and a scenic main square with quaint cafes, restaurants and shops. Sorrento is on the Circumvesuviana rail line and can be quickly reached from Naples. It is also an ideal base for visiting Pompeii, Herculaneum and the island of Capri....

Montez à bord du célèbre train, l’Orient-Express, en partance pour son premier voyage Le 4 octobre 1883, le train le plus luxueux du monde quittait Paris pour Constantinople. Promis à une destinée mythique, l’Orient-Express emmenait pour ce voyage inaugural les plus grands journalistes...

Long, long ago the land which we now call France was called Gaul. Gaul was much larger than France is to-day, although north, south, and west France has the same boundaries now as Gaul had in the far-off days of which I am going to tell you. What these boundaries are, many a geography lesson will...

With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joëlle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history,...

The Vienna Central Cemetery offers outstanding opportunities to take a stroll, to pause for a moment and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday active life. There are many ways of discovering Europe’s second largest cemetery. Most tourists and graveyard visitors limit themselves to the...

The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet towns and lively cities, the poetic and literary genius of so many of its citizens, its music and folklore, and its colorful and bloody history.What is also true is that the Irish people have in many ways...

Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years and endowed with an Eastern heart and a Western mind, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is a tourist destination for millions of visitors from around the world every year. However, this beauty of the landscape has been somewhat marred by the...

Freedom Flight is the story of two ordinary men on an extraordinary adventure. In celebration of the centenary of powered flight and a decade of South African independence, SA pilots Alan Honeyborne and Ricky De Agrela took off, completely unsupported, from Cape Town on 16 December 2003. Their aim...

Cork City is the largest in County Cork and its capital. The city centre is built on an island created by the two channels of the River Lee that separate at the western end only to join again in the east.    TABLE OF CONTENTS:  Overview - Culture - Location & Orientation - Climate...

Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck was born at the manor-house of Schoenhausen, in the Mark of Brandenburg, on April 1, 1815. Just a month before, Napoleon had escaped from Elba; and, as the child lay in his cradle, the peasants of the village, who but half a year ago had returned from the great campaign...

Scotland harbours some of the largest areas of wilderness left in Western Europe, a wildlife haven where you can see golden eagles soar above the lochs and mountains of the northern Highlands, spot otters tumbling in the kelp along the shores of the Outer Hebrides, and watch minke whales breach through...

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1836 edition by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London. In 1835 Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) a Scottish novelist and journalist took a trip to Russia.
He hoped to become acquainted with Modern Russia, and to be enabled to form some idea of the...

Lourdes is a small French town and pilgrimage site located in the foothills of the Pyrenees in south central France. Until the mid 19th century, Lourdes was limited to a population of just a few thousand people, a market and a fortified castle. This changed dramatically after 1858 with claims of multiple...