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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.16 — 241,071 ratings — published 2023
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,472 ratings — published 2022
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,147 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,333,310 ratings — published 1947
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.11 — 37,410 ratings — published 2023
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,006 ratings — published 2001
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,857 ratings — published 2023
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,402 ratings — published 2021
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,903 ratings — published 1999
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,253 ratings — published 2017
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,950 ratings — published 2003
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,763 ratings — published 2012
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,793 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,403,515 ratings — published 1956
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,190 ratings — published 890
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,535 ratings — published 1995
Great Masters: Shostakovich His Life & Music (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.43 — 324 ratings — published 2000
Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,353 ratings — published 2018
Queens of the Conquest (England’s Medieval Queens, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,270 ratings — published 2017
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,451 ratings — published 2024
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,014 ratings — published 2020
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,444 ratings — published 2022
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,645 ratings — published 2024
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,959 ratings — published 2012
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,670 ratings — published 2020
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,882 ratings — published 2021
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.19 — 67 ratings — published 2024
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.31 — 299,645 ratings — published 2025
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,924 ratings — published 2024
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,560 ratings — published 2024
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,064 ratings — published 2016
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,350 ratings — published 1945
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,835 ratings — published 2004
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,418 ratings — published 2023
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.47 — 196,168 ratings — published 2018
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,597 ratings — published 2020
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,771 ratings — published 2015
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,718 ratings — published 2024
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,373 ratings — published 2014
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,685 ratings — published 2023
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,898 ratings — published 2015
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,150 ratings — published 2023
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,712 ratings — published 2010
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,146 ratings — published 2006
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,739 ratings — published 2003
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,101 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,492 ratings — published 2016
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.73 — 772 ratings — published 2021
Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.30 — 364 ratings — published
Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,960 ratings — published 2021
“It's amazing to observe numerous dull beings with some illusion of knowledge around you. In their mind, they know that God exists, but even if it is not case that God exists, they would still believe it. In their mind, they know that some political ideologies express objectivity, but even if it is not case that these ideologies express objectivity, they would still believe them. In their mind, they know that some historical facts are true, but even if it is not case that these facts are true, they would still believe them. Whatever is in their mind is merely belief but not knowledge. The paradox of knowledge emerges when a person confuses knowledge with belief.”
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“The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod, consisting of thinly sliced, buttered bread and many delectable toppings.”
― Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
― Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
