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The Three Miss Kings: An Australian StoryThe Three Miss Kings: An Australian StoryOn the second of January, in the year 1880, three newly-orphaned sisters, finding themselves left to their own devices, with an income of exactly one hundred pounds a year a-piece, sat down to consult together as to the...
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The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' BrigadeThe Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' BrigadeAs my recollections of the war between the States, or the Confederate War, in which four of the best years of my life (May, 1861, to May, 1865) were given to the...
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The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political StudyThe China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political StudyThe National Government of the Republic of China, located at the auxiliary capital of Chungking, is one of the most important governments in contemporary world affairs. It has provided fairly effective unification for the largest nation on...
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Englands Wirtschaftskrieg gegen DeutschlandEnglands Wirtschaftskrieg gegen DeutschlandSeit den Zeiten, in denen franzsische Eroberungslust unter LudwigXIV. die deutsche Pfalz verwstete, den Zeiten, von denen die Ruinen des Heidelberger Schlosses zeugen, gilt ber Napoleon I. und seinen kleinen Namenstrger NapoleonIII. hinweg bis in die Zeiten der franzsischen Revanchepolitiker, der...
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Viestini menneiltä sukupolviltaViestini menneiltä sukupolvilta1. Sokea mummo. 2. Kirkkoherra Gabriel Bergelinin elmst: 1. Koti ja koulu. Ruovedelt Merikarvialle. 2. Vuosi 1808. Rajevski. 3. Uskollisuusvalan ottaminen, von Vegesack. 4. Kildejev. Halvaus. 5. Neiti Bergenkrantz. Wie. Bjrnram. Kirkkoherran kuolema. 3. Livnin perhe. 4. Joulu autiolla karilla. 5. Kuun...
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Rand and the MicmacsRand and the MicmacsBy Rev. Robert Murray, D.D. (Editor of Presbyterian Witness.) Dr. Rand was a man of rare genius and high attainments. It would be a wrong to him, to the country, and to the Church of Christ to allow his name to...
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The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. - Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.The American Indians are always on the move. Tribes shift the location of their homes from season to season...
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Un tel de l'armée françaiseUn tel de l'armée françaiseTel ces mdailles qui, sous la patine des sicles, accusent un profil jamais orgueilleux et viril, Un Tel, malgr les puisements et les fivres, garde le visage de ses vingt ans. Il est la parfaite image d'une poque inquite, le...
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English Eccentrics and EccentricitiesEnglish Eccentrics and EccentricitiesGENTLE READER, a few words before we introduce you to our Eccentrics. They may be odd company: yet how often do we find eccentricity in the minds of persons of good understanding. Their sayings and doings, it is true, may not...
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Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 2, De Las Islas Filipinas, IColección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 2, De Las Islas Filipinas, ICual montaas que por ms elevadas va avistando el navegante, y por la especial disposicin de ellas en la costa le...
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The Story of WellingtonThe Story of WellingtonI work as hard as I can in every way in order to succeed. Wellington. I march to-morrow to follow Marshal Soult, and to prevent his army from becoming the noyau of a civil war in France. Thus writes Wellington to...
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Historia natural y moral de las Indias (vol 2 of 2)Historia natural y moral de las Indias (vol 2 of 2)Habiendo tratado lo que la historia natural de Indias pertenece, en lo que resta se tratar de la historia moral, esto es, de las costumbres y hechos de los Indios. Porque despues del Cielo,...
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The 9 Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her TimesThe Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her TimesThe tragedy of Lady Jane Grey is unquestionably one of the most poignant episodes in English history, but its very dramatic completeness and compactness have almost invariably caused its wider significance to be obscured by...
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450 miles to freedom: the adventures of eight British officers in their escape from the TurksFour-Fifty Miles to Freedom"Il n'y a pas trois officiers." Such was the memorable epigram by which Sherif Bey, Turkish Captain of the Prisoners-of-War Guard at Kstamni, and a man regardless of detail, announced to us that four officers, whose escape has been described in...
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History of the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865Not long after the close of the war a plan was proposed, by some of the officers of the regiment, for the preparation of a history of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers; but the plan was...
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Zachariah Chandler: An Outline Sketch of His Life and Public ServicesZachariah Chandler: An Outline Sketch of His Life and Public ServicesIt is stated elsewhere that this work is written "By The Detroit Post and Tribune." Unusual as this form of announcement is on the title-pages of books, there certainly may be an authorial as...
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History of the Beef Cattle Industry in IllinoisHistory of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois"As a whole, the surface of the State of Illinois is nearly level. The prairie regions which cover a large part of the state are only slightly rolling, except in those places where streams have worn valleys....
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The Americans in the Great War; v. 3. The Meuse-Argonne BattlefieldsThe Americans in the Great War; v. 3. The Meuse-Argonne Battlefields - (Montfaucon, Romagne, Saint-Menehould)The Touring Club de France (founded in 1890), is at the present time the largest Touring Association in the whole world. Its principal aim is to introduce Franceadmirable country and...
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The Romance of DollardThe Romance of DollardBY THE AUTHOR. THE province of Canada, or New France, under the reign of Louis XIV., presented the same panorama of lakes, mountains, rivers, rapids, that it does to-day; but it was then a background for heroes, and the French population...
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The Americans in the Great War; v. 2. The Battle of Saint MihielThe Americans in the Great War; v. 2. The Battle of Saint Mihiel - (St. Mihiel, Pont-à-Mousson, Metz)The Touring Club de France (founded in 1890), is at the present time the largest Touring Association in the whole world. Its principal aim is to introduce...
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