An excerpt from Napoleon and St. Helena, 1815-1816, by Roger Morriss, describing Admiral George Cockburn sailing Napoleon to exile to the island of St. Helena. Ancestor of the AVA's late and great Alexander Cockburn, Admiral…
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-- Author(s) Anonymous, London, 1647 To the Right Honorable the Keepers of the Liberties of Venus; The Worshipful Court of Female-Assistants, &c. The Humble Petition and Address of several Thousands of Buxome Good-Women, Languishing in…
From: The Women’s Petition Against Coffee —Anonymously published pamphlet (1647). Our men in former ages were justly esteemed the ablest performers in Christendom, but to our unspeakable grief, we find of late a very…
[by Jess McHugh] In 1870 a flaneur could stroll from the towering iron arches of the newly constructed Les Halles marketplace and in just a few minutes cross into Ile de la Cité. The island,…