... No. 2 Charles I and Oliver Cromwell WHAT were the King's thoughts on this memorable January 30, 1649, when he nothing common did or mean? The morning was grey and snow was falling. Ten o'clock had just struck as the King stepped from the eastern door of St. James's Palace. He had wrapped around him a black velvet cloak, but was bareheaded. Ironsides in leather doublets and steel helmets wall ...

... S hip Models The Collectio?i of these makes quite a Fascinating Hobby By Frank C. Bowen FROM a few years before the outbreak of the last war until the great Wall Street slump the supply of ship models to American collectors was a big business, especially when these collections became a fashionable craze after the end of the war. After American collections and museums had contrived to get the ...

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