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Who Murdered Chaucer?
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Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Juliette Dor
Written by a founding member of Monty Python, this is a groundbreaking historical whodunit about the mysterious death of England's greatest medieval writer.
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I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain about What Really Happened to Glenn Miller
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Clarence B Wolfe
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Heraldry for the Dead: Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia
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Katina T Lillios
In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southwestern Portugal and Spain. About the size of a palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their ...
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R.I.P.: The Complete Book of Death and Dying
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Constance Jones
One part compendium of facts about death and dying, and one part a concrete how-to guide to living wills, powers of attorney, the design of funerals, and other practical steps in the dying process, "R.I.P." offers a one-volume compilation of relevant data and insights.
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Interpreting Diana, Television Audiences and the Death of a
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Robert Turnock
Drawing on wide-ranging replies from people around the country, this title examines the role television played in providing news about the event of the Princess of Wales' death. The book goes on to explore the reasons why Diana's death affected so many people and suggests that TV is integral to the way we think about the world around us. At the ...
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Deuteronomy and Death of Moses
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Dennis T Olson
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Alone Before God-CL
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Pamela Voekel, Pamela Voekel
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window on to the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the ...
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Dead and buried in history
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Elizabeth Newbery
The Ace Place" series combines historical information with jokes, riddles and various activities. This title explores funerals in the past, from burials and cremations to mummies."
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The Lazarus Syndrome: Burial Alive & Other Horrors of the Undead
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Rodney Davies
The danger of being buried alive is as old a s the human race, yet it is as real today as it ever was. Th is book examines the tragic circumstances of such errors, re vealing that premature burial is not the only possible outco me of such mis-diagnosis. '
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Make Believe: A True Story
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Diana Athill
English author Diana Athill writes about her relationship with Hakim Jamal, the black American activist and Malcolm X disciple who came to believe he was God.
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Elvis Files
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Gail Brewer-Giorgio, Raymond A. Moody, Jr. (Foreword by)
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Death of a princess : an investigation
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Thomas Sancton, Scott MacLeod
The truth about Dodi and Diana - their brief life together and how they died. The authors have investigated the question that have been continually asked, butnot previously been satisfactorily answered: were the couple planning to marry? was Diana pregnant? Is there a grain of truth in the theories, rampant in the middle-east, that they were ...
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Death and the Author: How D. H. Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered
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David Ellis
At the heart of Death and the Author is a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis during his last days, and of certain, often bizarre events which followed his death. Around this narrative David Ellis offers a series of reflections about what it is like to have a disease for which there is no cure, the appeal ...
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The Mystery of the Princes
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Audrey Williamson
Richard III's murder of his two young nephews, the "Princes in the Tower" has long been questioned, and even contemporary sources make clear this was rumour only, and conflicts much with Richard III's character as a ruler. It has nevertheless often been treated as fact, and has been the source of debate for over 500 years. This book for the first ...
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Buried Mistakes
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Michael Kaplan
The chilling, true story of a wife's murder--and the "psychic cop" who probed the dark depths of a husband's deception--written with a journalist's careful attention and paced in the tradition of a taut psychological thriller. Eight years after Candy Short was brutally murdered, George Brejack, well-known for his "sixth sense" in solving cold ...
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The Harem Conspiracy: The Murder of Ramesses III
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Susan Redford
This publication looks at the mysterious events surrounding the death of Rameses III, something that has puzzled historians, archaeologists, and Egyptologists. Now archaeologist Susan Redford investigates the circumstances of the ancient pharoah's death - and discovers among the women of his harem the threads of a murder conspiracy. Evidence is ...
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The Last Days of Hitler: The Legend-The Evidence-The Truth
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Anton Joachimsthaler
A detailed examination of the facts surrounding the death of Hitler, in an attempt to uncover the truth. The text seeks to answer questions such as why, if Hitler committed suicide in 1945, his death certificate was not signed until 1956.
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Ending the Terror
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Bronislaw Baczko, Michel Petheram (Translator), Michael Petheram (Translator)
Ending the Terror makes accessible a major revisionist assessment of a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. The months that followed the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 mark not only a turning point in the history of the Revolution: 'Thermidor' is also a symbolic moment which came to haunt the subsequent revolutions of the ...
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Dead Ends: An Irreverent Field Guide to the Graves of the Famous
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David Cross, Robert Bent
Thousands of people visit Parisian cemeteries to see the gravesites of Jim Morrison and Gertrude Stein, and the same can be said of California cemeteries. With 500 entries of notables ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman, this guide contains regional (state-by-state, country-by-country) listings of the final resting places of celebrities.
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The mummy : unwrap the ancient secrets of the mummies' tombs
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Joyce A. Tyldesley
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature, and a discussion of modern scientific mummy analysis.'
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The Death of Hitler: The Final Words from Russia's Secret Archives
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Ivor Kenny, ADA Petrova
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The Last Days of Hitler: Thet Legends, the Evidence, the Truth
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Anton Joachimsthaler
The result of 20 years of research, this book examines the legends, lies and half-truths surrounding Hitler's death, describing the bunker in the final months, days and hours. It looks at the suicide theory and the corpses, revealing information about the remains and their identification.
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The Death of George Washington: He Died as He Lived. Foreword by Philander D Chase
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Peter R Henriques, Philander D Chase (Foreword by)
Throughout his life George Washington demonstrated a capacity to face danger with determination and to suffer hardship with dignity. At no time were these qualities more evident than in his final struggle on December 14, 1799. On that morning, at home on his Mount Vernon estate, George Washington was mortally stricken with a frightening illness. ...
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My Boy Jack: The Search for Kipling's Son
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Toni Holt, Valmai Holt
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Ned Kelly's Last Days: Setting the Record Straight on the Death of an Outlaw
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Alex C Castles, Jennifer Castle, John Williams, Esq (Afterword by)
Australia's leading legal historian examines the chain of events that occurred between Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan and the day he faced the public executioner revealing the truth behind the drama, intrigue, and pathos of the death of Australia's most notorious outlaw. In 1880, Ned Kelly was a great deal more than just an outlaw who had to ...
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