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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2016 1:55:19 GMT
Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives – King Henry VIII – commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces: the previous queen lasted sixteen months, the one before barely half a year. But Henry adores his new bride and Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family, creates a radical study circle at the heart of the court, and rules the kingdom as regent. But is this enough to keep her safe? A leader of religious reform and a published author, Kateryn stands out as an independent woman with a mind of her own. But she cannot save the Protestants, under threat for their faith, and Henry's dangerous gaze turns on her.The traditional churchmen and rivals for power accuse her of heresy - the punishment is death by fire and the king's name is on the warrant...
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2016 22:42:23 GMT
Lecture on "US Policy Towards the Region Since 9/11: One Disaster After Another" delivered by: John Mearsheimer (R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.) Forum: Gulf Studies Forum 5-7/12/2015 (Doha)
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2016 20:55:10 GMT
Exclusive video for Pushkin House of Prof. Robert Service talking about his book 'The End of the Cold War', shortlisted for the 2016 Pushkin House Prize. Drawing on material at the Hudson Institute, minutes of the summits, and interviews with George Shultz, Service has produced a work, The End of the Cold War, that will not endear him to the Left. He counters the Gorbachev-as-visionary thesis to show the premier as less an iconoclast and more a realist. For by 1985, when Gorbachev became the head of the Soviet Communist Party, it was apparent not just to him but also to the usually hard-line Politburo and Presidium that the Soviet economy was collapsing. Aware that there was no way the Soviet Union could compete with Reagan’s free-market-powered accelerated arms race, let alone feed its people at the same time (Service notes that a Soviet grocery store he visited didn’t even have milk), the Politburo allowed Gorbachev to attempt to correct these problems through joint U.S.–Soviet missile reduction.
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2016 20:50:06 GMT
Have you listened to chapter 1 of BRIDGET JONES’S BABY: THE DIARIES, read by the brilliant Samantha Bond yet?
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Post by Admin on Aug 8, 2017 19:51:34 GMT
Watch Walter Russell Mead, CFR's Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow, discuss his newest book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. An illuminating account by Walter Russell Mead of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world.
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