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Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period...

The last years of King Charles IX's reign in France were dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. Queen Margot begins in 1572 with the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henri de Navarre. Marguerite is King Charles' sister and the daughter of Henri II and Catherine de Medici, all firm Catholics. Henri de Navarre is a Protestant who later will become the beloved King Henri IV. Several important political events have led up to this marriage including the mysterious murder of Henri de Navarre's mother, cleverly plotted by Catherine de Medici. The wedding brings noblemen from all over the world to Paris resulting in the notorious Saint Bartholomew Massacre, where thousands of Protestants are killed. In this inventive and compelling novel, Dumas brings an extraordinary period of history vividly to life with much excitement and romance. The lively prose and wonderfully constructed plot tell of court intrigues and forbidden love, of beautiful queens, duchesses, and noblemen, suspense, conspiracies, betrayals, assassinations, superstitions, poisonings, and sumptuous feasts. With well-known historical figures as main characters in a dangerous and breathtaking game for power, Queen Margot tells of conspiracies, clandestine trysts, and daring escapes. There is the infamous Catherine de Medici, deliciously evil, constantly plotting and poisoning; Le Mole, a dashing and irresistable young Protestant who becomes Marguerite's lover; the noble Coconnos who provides a great source of comic relief; and at the center of all this intrigue are the good-hearted Marguerite and Henri who are perfect political allies with complicated and fascinating love lives.

Following the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A. Olson for TIME and LIFE magazines, 1944-1945. Olson, who joined Time Inc. in 1939 and served as a senior editor there, asked to be assigned overseas as a war correspondent. In mid-December, 1944, he received his accreditation from the War Department and sailed for London. Attached to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), Olson followed the Allied Forces as they pushed the Nazis back into Germany. He typed up his reports and cabled them to his editors in New York.

La fenomenal historia de mujeres matemáticas afroamericanas de la NASA en la vanguardia del movimiento feminista y de derechos civiles, cuyos cálculos impulsaron uno de los mayores logros espaciales de Estados Unidos. Pronto será una gran película protagonizada por Taraji P. Henson, Octavia...

Some tall girls grow up to have perfect posture and are later seen gracing the pages of magazines. Some are natural athletes with toned legs that mask their overlarge feet. Then there are other tall girls: the ones who are always tripping over themselves; who never look normal in any size of clothing; who literally don’t fit in. Comedian Margot Leitman was one of these awkward giants, and Gawky is the painfully funny chronicle of her experiences growing up tall.

In No Turning Back, Regardless, award-winning Christian country singer Lisa Daggs shares her story of addiction, conviction, and triumph about learning to trust the God who loved her regardless of her circumstances. Today, Daggs has shared her story on tour with Bill and Gloria Gaither, with 3.2 million viewers through her TV show, and through her Recovery Radio Program heard in 47 states and 27 countries.

In 1851, Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.

Über ein Vierteljahrhundert leitete sie das Ministerium für Volksbildung der DDR: Margot Honecker, Ehefrau des letzten Staats- und Parteichefs der DDR - und Freundin von Wolf Biermann. Vor mehr als 40 Jahren. Tatsächlich besuchten sich Margot und der Wolf zwischen 1962 und 1965 häufig, tauschten sich aus, diskutierten über Lieder und Gedichte. Bis ihre Anschauungen sie trennten.

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Sie wurde 2009 als erste Frau zur Ratsvorsitzenden der EKD gewählt - das höchste Amt, das die deutschen Lutheraner zu vergeben haben. Die einzigartigen Biografien laden dazu ein, sich mit der Geschichte der Frauen zu befassen, die den Mut hatten, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und schließlich ihr Ziel erreichten, die Erste zu sein!

You’ve been summoned. Set your bias aside and take a seat in the jury box—The Alternate brings you inside America’s biggest trials, one season at a time. Hosted by Mama Margot, attorney, veteran, and creator of the hit podcast Military Murder, and Tabitha Kane, business owner and co-host of the hit podcast Housewives of True Crime, this daily podcast delivers serialized, (day of) trial-by-trial coverage in 30 minutes or less. Each season follows a single high-profile case (think Karen Read and Donna Adelson) from opening statement to verdict. No pretrial noise. No media spin. ...

Ruth Elias, a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, recounts her challenging and unthinkable story of confronting perhaps the most agonizing choice so that she and her newborn infant would not die. Taken for Nazi medical experimentation, she confronted the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele and saved the life of not only herself but her child as well.

This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, a man who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands' award-winning film Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial contribution to a better understanding of the complexity of life under the Nazis.

Sucré Salé c'est mon podcast et moi je m'appelle Margot. Ici, c'est comme si on était en train de boire un café ensemble, entre potes. Un moment où on se dit les choses, on parle de la vie, sans filtre. Parfois c'est sucré, c'est doux et tout va bien et d'autres fois c'est bien salé et on s'en passerait. Bref, je raconte des trucs. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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🎙️ Bienvenue dans Les Mots Raturés, le podcast qui parle sans filtre d’écriture, d’édition et de promotion de romans. Tu rêves d’écrire un roman mais tu n’arrives pas à dépasser le chapitre 5 ? Tu veux enfin comprendre comment fonctionne le monde de l’édition (sans jargon indigeste) ? Tu te demandes comment parler de ton livre en ligne sans avoir l’impression de faire du télé-achat ? Alors tu es au bon endroit. 👉 Ici, on démystifie le monde du livre. Chaque semaine, je partage avec toi mes astuces d’autrice publiée (et parfois un peu cabossée par l’...

Two former co-workers, Margot and Aubry, set weekly challenges to help each other get out (and stay out) of the preverbal funk. Join us!

Do military true crime headlines leave you hungry for every detail? Dive into your next mystery with Military Murder. Every Monday, host Mama Margot - lawyer by day, storyteller by night - brings you in-depth accounts of infamous and underreported military crime cases. With over 15 years of active military service, Margot bridges the gap between the battlefield (or just basic military life) and the courtroom, so you won't have to hunt down details across countless sources - Margot does the digging for you. Since its debut in 2019, Military Murder has been the destination for 100s of gripping ...

Raising an Entrepreneur presents 76 stories from the mothers of some of the most successful entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs are the new rock stars - they're the ones who turn their passions into ingenious projects, because they're willing to risk failure to make their dreams come true.

Gottfried Fischer, seines Zeichens Bäckermeister, wohnte über Jahre im gleichen Haus wie die Familie Beethoven...