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Wanderungen durch die interessantesten Gegenden des Sächsischen Obererzgebirges (Erstes Heft)Wanderungen durch die interessantesten Gegenden des Sächsischen Obererzgebirges (Erstes Heft) - Ein Beitrag zur specielleren Kenntniß desselben, seines Volkslebens, seiner Gewerbsarten, Sitten und GebräucheDie lndliche Wohlhabenheit, welche die volk- und gewerbreiche Stadt Chemnitz meilenweit um sich verbreitet und selbst die nahen Drfer mit einer...
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The Black GalleyThe Black GalleyIt was a dark and stormy night in the first days of November of the year 1599 when the Spanish sentry in Fort Liefkenhoek on the Flemish side of the Scheldt sounded the alarm, urgent drumming woke the sleeping garrison and each...
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John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal ReminiscencesJohn Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal ReminiscencesThe reminiscences of his life and work were dictated to me by my father during the summer of 1916. He touched only upon the main events. There are countless unmentioned things that would add to this story...
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On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and ScafellOn Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and ScafellBooks about British mountains are mostly of two kinds, the popular, written for the tourist, and the technical, written by the rock-climber. The author of this little study of the hills of Carnarvonshire and Cumberland...
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Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth CenturyAnglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century - being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910The varying fortunes of the obstinate and fiercely contested struggles with the Dutch for maritime and commercial supremacy in the days of the Commonwealth and...
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40 Years at El Paso, 1858-1898Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898These writings are meant to be truthful, but they are too rambling and egotistical to possess much historical value. Few subjects are treated of except such as the writer was personally connected with or in which he felt a...
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Endres Tuchers Baumeisterbuch der Stadt NürnbergEndres Tuchers Baumeisterbuch der Stadt NürnbergKommentare zur den Original-Handschriften wurden in der gedruckten Ausgabe am jeweiligen Seitenende vermerkt; diese finden sich im vorliegenden Text zusammenhngend am Ende des Dokuments (siehe "ANMERKUNGEN ZU DEN EINZELNEN SEITEN". Das Inhaltsverzeichnis wurde dagegen an den Anfang des Textes...
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A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an OptimistA Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an OptimistThe following was at first intended to be no more than an attempt to foresee the probable trend of mechanical invention and scientific discovery during the present century. But as the work took shape it was...
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Anthon L. SkanchyAnthon L. Skanchy - A Brief Autobiographical Sketch of the Missionary Labors of a Valiant Soldier for ChristThe missionary labors of the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would form a most interesting chapter in the history of human endeavor....
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Schetsen uit ZeelandSchetsen uit Zeeland - De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1873Het was een warme, liefelijke Meidag in het jaar 1873. Vroolijk straalde de zon aan den helder blauwen hemel, slechts hier en daar met fijne, witte, donzige wolkjes bestrooid, en goot haar licht uit...
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True Stories of the Great War, Volume 1 (of 6)True Stories of the Great War, Volume 1 (of 6) - Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye WitnessesThirty million soldiers, each living a great human storythis is the real drama of the Great War as it is being...
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Viaje a America, Tomo 2 de 2Viaje a America, Tomo 2 de 2 - Estados Unidos, Exposición Universal de Chicago, México, Cuba y Puerto RicoMi querido lector: Si ests cansado de oir cantar las alabanzas de la Exposicin de Chicago; si te repugna leer los detalles de la muerte de...
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Viaje a America, Tomo 1 de 2Viaje a America, Tomo 1 de 2 - Estados Unidos, Exposición Universal de Chicago, México, Cuba y Puerto RicoCuando la fraternidad no es ms que vnculo de la sangre, aun siendo rama de un rbol de tronco vigoroso, una rfaga de viento puede derribarla;...
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The Country of the DwarfsThe Country of the DwarfsTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain....
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Stories and Letters from the TrenchesStories and Letters from the TrenchesLetters received from soldiers in the field describe many features of the various campaigns of the war, the descriptions coming from representatives of widely differing classes of society. Unlike the rigid censorship imposed on the allied troopers by their...
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A Study of Siouan CultsA Study of Siouan Cults - Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544 1. Cult, as used in this article, means a system of religious belief and worship,...
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Pioneers in AustralasiaPioneers in AustralasiaI have been asked to write a series of works which should deal with "real adventures", in parts of the world either wild and uncontrolled by any civilized government, or at any rate regions full of dangers, of wonderful discoveries; in which...
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Della guerra nazionale d'insurrezione per bande, applicata all'ItaliaDella guerra nazionale d'insurrezione per bande, applicata all'Italia - Trattato dedicato ai buoni Italiani da un amico del Paese Da tirannico veleno travagliati, da gotica pestifera infezione ammorbati, le vostre gi robuste membra per effetto suo accasciate, dalle gherminelle dello straniero, che nel vedervi...
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The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesThe Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.Some portions of this book have already appeared in print. Of these, the most important is the catalogue raisonn of early Norman castles in England which will be found in Chapter VII., and which was originally published...
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Sun, Sand and SomalsSun, Sand and Somals - Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British SomalilandAfrica is gradually becoming so civilised that there are few places left where the adventurer (the man who holds a human life as cheaply as the sportsman holds that...
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