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Sweet William or the Butcher?: The Duke of Cumberland and the '45  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Aug. 15, 2022
Sweet William or the Butcher?: The Duke of Cumberland and the '45

Sweet William or the Butcher?: The Duke of Cumberland and the '45 by Jonathan Oates
English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 1844157547 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 2.83 MB

'Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that has endured to the present day. He has even been proposed as the most evil Briton of the eighteenth century. But was Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of George II, really the ogre of popular imagination?

Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Free butterfly at March 16, 2024
Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524

Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 by Neil Murphy
English | March 21, 2023 | ISBN: 1837650179 | 272 pages | MOBI | 2.45 Mb

«The Duke Of Chimney Butte» by George W.Ogden  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Gelsomino at March 25, 2024
«The Duke Of Chimney Butte» by George W.Ogden

«The Duke Of Chimney Butte» by George W.Ogden
English | EPUB | 0.2 MB
Gene Chandler - The Duke Of Earl (1962) Japanese Mini LP, Reissue 2006

Gene Chandler - The Duke Of Earl (1962) Japanese Mini LP, Reissue 2006
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 262 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 100 Mb | Scans included
Early R&B, Chicago Soul, Pop-Soul, Doo Wop | Label: P-Vine | # PCD 4315 | Time: 00:42:31

This is an odd album, mostly owing to the widely differing sounds represented on it. Though often credited exclusively to Gene Chandler, about half of it is comprised of Chandler's work with the Dukays, the group of which he was a part until the release of "Duke of Earl" (which was a Dukays recording released as a Chandler solo single). The Dukays material is fine if relatively undistinguished late-'50s R&B harmony vocal material, mostly consisting of pleasant romantic ballads. Chandler's work, by contrast, casts him in a mode very similar to Ben E. King's immediate post-Drifters recordings (he even does "Stand by Me" here). There's a considerable chasm between the doo wop and the solo sides, and some listeners might even get dizzy after a few switches back and forth. And the album is dominated by the later tracks, circa 1965, most notably "Turn on Your Love Light," where Chandler moves into the upbeat soul sound that would carry him from the mid-'60s all the way through into the 1970s (and a professional rendezvous with Curtis Mayfield). The sound is excellent, and if you can take the switches in style and mood, this is a fun album. [The original 12-song album has been reissued on CD in Japan under the same title and with the same cover art, with audiophile sound and five bonus cuts drawn from deeper in the Vee-Jay library.]

«The Duke of the Moors» by Audrey Ashwood  Audiobooks

Posted by Gelsomino at June 3, 2022
«The Duke of the Moors» by Audrey Ashwood

«The Duke of the Moors» by Audrey Ashwood
English | MP3@192 kbps | 5h 44m | 473.3 MB
The Duke Quartet - Samuel Barber, Antonin Dvorak, Philip Glass: String Quartets (1993)

The Duke Quartet - Samuel Barber, Antonín Dvořák, Philip Glass: String Quartets (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 293 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Collins | # 13862 DDD | Time: 01:01:01

An imaginative mixture of the popular and the unusual. Barber’s only quartet has at its heart the famous Adagio for Strings: the latter is an arrangement of the second of the quartet’s two movements. That Adagio – which here benefits not only from the unfamiliarity of the chamber original but also from the Duke’s sensitively understated approach on their first recording for Collins Classics – is here surrounded by some captivating faster music (including a brief return to the opening Molto allegro’s ideas). And Robert Maycock’s excellent booklet notes hint at what those famous seven minutes of slow, sad passion in particular could really be said to be about: young homosexual love in the Austrian woods. Thirty years later, in 1966, another American in Europe, and still in his twenties, wrote his first string quartet, though it’s unlikely to be a direct reflection of love, this time in Paris.
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Music for the Duke of Lerma (2002)

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Music for the Duke of Lerma (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 382 Mb | Total time: 72:13+39:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 471 694–2 | Recorded: 2001

Presenting First Vespers and the Salve Service as it might been celebrated in October 1617 in the presence of King Philip III and the Duke of Lerma, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort & Players bring these early 17th century works to glowing life, the rising and falling cadences of voices mingling with the counterpoint of the magnificent organ of the Cathedral in Lerma.

Dune: The Duke of Caladan: The Caladan Trilogy, Book 1 [Audiobook]  Audiobooks

Posted by IrGens at Oct. 14, 2020
Dune: The Duke of Caladan: The Caladan Trilogy, Book 1 [Audiobook]

Dune: The Duke of Caladan: The Caladan Trilogy, Book 1 [Audiobook] by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
English | October 13, 2020 | ASIN: B08C95V55Y | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 31m | 846 MB
Narrator: Scott Brick

BBC - HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Remembered (2021)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 4, 2021
BBC - HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Remembered (2021)

BBC - HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Remembered (2021)
WEB-DL | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 5005 Kbps | 1 h 31 min | 3.27 GiB
Audio: English AAC 125 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

Remembered. Looks at His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh's life and legacy.
Odhecaton & Paolo Da Col - Compere: Missa Galeazescha - Music for the Duke of Milan (2017)

Odhecaton & Paolo Da Col - Compere: Missa Galeazescha - Music for the Duke of Milan (2017)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital Booklet | 01:05:05 | 150 MB
Label: Arcana

During the reign of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-76), Milan experienced an extraordinary musical era. In the 1470s, the Duke set out to form a ‘famous and worthy choir’, recruiting a ‘goodly number of singers from beyond the Alps and from various countries’. He soon assembled a musical ensemble that boasted some of the most celebrated musicians in the Franco-Flemish polyphony of the day, from Italy and beyond. The Duke brought into being a new kind of polyphonic mass, a cycle of motets called missales to replace the traditional ordinarium, with texts attributing special importance to the worship of Our Lady of Grace and Mercy, much beloved by the Sforza family. A masterpiece of the genre is the so-called Missa Galeazescha for five voices, composed by Loyset Compère and performed here by an ensemble inspired by the impressive size of Galeazzo Maria Sforza’s cappella. This recording brings together four vocal-instrumental groups.