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Der Fall Vukobrankovics Am 28. Oktober 1918 begann der erste Proze gegen die 24jhrige Brgerschullehrerin Milica Vukobrankovics de Vuko et Branko vor den Wiener Geschworenen. Die Angeklagte war beschuldigt, in der Familie des Landesschulinspektors Rudolf Piffl den Speisen Arsenik beigemengt und eine Phosphorpille angefertigt...

A babonák könyveMert a romlatlan npben minden jra meg van a hajlam; csak legyen, aki elmjt a mvelds al megmunklja; s megszabadtja lelkt s kedlyt az elfogultsgtl, az elitletektl s egyb szz fajta burjntl, melyek szivben minden nemes helyet elfoglalva tartanak. Ezen tudattl volt...

At the Queen’s MercyNevertheless, something within me spurs me onward; for, to tell the truth, I am loath to die leaving no record of the sights that I have seen; sights to brand the memory and stir the blood, and doings to turn one...

A Point of TestimonyBert Bayliss was the funniest detective you ever saw. He wasnt the least like Vidocq, Lecoq or Sherlock, either in personality or mentality. And perhaps the chief difference lay in the fact that he possessed a sense of humor, and that...

Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade?Moods may be uncomfortable, and sad, and painfully disturbing, but, on the other hand, they make pleasant music occasionally. Here I sit in the dusk, looking out into the street that is ordinarily so familiar to me, but...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 47, Vol. I, November 22, 1884Considering the world-wide reputation of the Bank of England, it is remarkable how little is generally known as to its internal working. Standing in the very heart of...

Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness,...

Early Carriages and RoadsOnly some three hundred and fifty years have elapsed since wheeled conveyances for passengers came into use in England; but, once introduced, they rapidly found favour with all classes of society, more especially in cities. The progress of road-making and that...

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian StoriesThe stories in this book deal with peoples of widely different surroundings and habitsome with dwellers on the sea-shore, whose skies are often obscured by rain and fog, who draw their living from the sea, and...

Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of AugustusSuetonius in his Life of Augustus tells us that that Emperor had placed in charge of the Vestal virgins his will and three other sealed documents; and the four papers were produced and read in the senate immediately after...

Lord Lister No. 0004: De millioenenschat in de DoodkistCharly Brand, de vriend, of, zooals hij genoemd werd, de secretaris van den lord, had zich schijnbaar geheel verdiept in de Nowoje Wremja, doch in werkelijkheid luisterde hij echter ook naar zijn buren. Maar Charly kende...

Nem én kiáltokMost, hogy kidobom magambl ezeket az rsokat, kvetel, res tr marad bennem j, szebb, szeretbb csillagzatok utn. Hegyre kell menjen az, aki a vilgokat term frl szaktani akar. S n rzem, hogy hegy n alattam, de bizonyos is, hogy hegy n azalatt,...

The Last Duchess of BelgardeIN the great, green old garden of Madame, the Countess of Floramour, sat her granddaughter, little Mademoiselle Trimousette, wondering when she was to be married and to whom. Such an enterprise was afoot, and even then being arranged, but nobody,...

La metamorfosis, o, El asno de oroEl arcediano de Sevilla Diego Lpez de Cortegana, escriba a fines del siglo XV, al frente de su traduccin de El asno de oro, las siguientes noticias biogrficas del autor de esta novela latina: Lucio Apuleyo, de noble...

Problem PlanetQuibblers may shove dictionaries in my face till the end of the universe and I will always maintain that almost anything you can name is a matter of good luck or bad. Every great man owes his success to luck of some sort....

Az élet értelme és értékeAz let rtelme s rtke felli krds ppensggel nem magtl rtetd: olyan idkben tmad fel, a mikor az egyes ember kezd zavarba jnni a krnyezete ltal nyujtott lettartalom fell s ez a ktsg azt jelenti, hogy a hagyomnyos sszefggsek nem...

A Man-Sized PetMagpie Simpkins, six feet two, slender to the point of emaciation, with the face of a scholar above his walrus-like mustache, sat there peering at his cards through the only pair of glasses on Sleeping Creek. Magpie had been to Missoula a...

Cliquot: A Racing Story of Ideal Beauty News Agents and Booksellers will be supplied with any of the above books, very low rates, assorted, as they may wish them, to make up a dozen, hundred, five hundred, or thousand, by the publishers, T. B....

Finsk bilderbok - 10 teckningar Vet mamma, Bravo r rysligt qvicker; Han springer, s det i foten sticker! Nog skulle han f p banan priset, Om han ej stundom behfde riset. Frsk att basa hans herre d; Det tror jag Bravo skall bst frst....

The Boy's King Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round TableIn this edition of Mr. Lanier's classic "Boy's King Arthur" omission has been made of some minor passages and introductory matterall the greater tales, those of...