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But Time, the domain of Deeds,
calls for a complex Grammar
with many Moods and Tenses,
and prime the Imperative.
We are free to choose our paths
but choose We must, no matter
where they lead, and the tales We
tell of the Past must be true.
Human Time is a City
where each inhabitant has
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Scandalous Women
It's a very interesting book based on the author's blog. It is a collection of biographies of many important women throughout history and culture written with an entertaining style: it's fun to read and it gives you a lot of interesting facts.
It's divided into 7 sections:
1. Warrior Queens (Cleopa ... (continue)
It's a very interesting book based on the author's blog. It is a collection of biographies of many important women throughout history and culture written with an entertaining style: it's fun to read and it gives you a lot of interesting facts.
It's divided into 7 sections:
1. Warrior Queens (Cleopatra - Boudica - Eleanor of Aquitaine - Joan of Arc - Grace O'Malley)
2. Wayward Wives (èmilie du Chatelet - Lady Caroline Lamb - Jane Digby - Violet Trefusis - Zelda Fitzgerald)
3. Scintillating Seductresses (Anne Boleyn - Barbara Palmer - Emma Hamilton - Lola Montez - Mata Hari)
4. Crusading Ladies (Anne Hutchinson - Mary Wollstonecraft - Rose O'Neal Greenhow - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Carry Nation)
5. Wild Women of the West (Mary Ellen Pleasant - Sarah Winnemucca - Calamity Jane - Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor - Margaret Tobin Brown)
6. Amorous Artists (Camille Claudel - Isadora Duncan - Josephine Baker - Billie Holiday - Frida Kahlo)
7. Amazing Adventuresses (Anne Bonney and Mary Read - Lady Hester Stanhope - Anna Leonowens - Gertrude Bell - Amelia Earhart)
All these women managed to make history in their own way and they remain models for contemporary women.
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