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Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921By Sir FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. The idea of climbing Mount Everest has been vaguely in men's mind for thirty or forty years past. Certainly that veteran mountain-climber and mountain-lover, Douglas Freshfield, had it persistently rising within him as he...
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The PersiansΠέρσαιNote: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic. The spelling of the book has not been changed otherwise. : . . , 525 . . . , , . , , . . ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number:...
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Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old TownHistoric Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old TownRev. Robert Campbell Gilmore. As a public speaker of wide reputation, especially on Southern themes, Hon. John T. Goolrick, Judge of the Corporation Court of Fredericksburg, Va., needs no introduction. It is my privilege to introduce him...
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The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its CommerceThe Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce As one of the American Waterways series, this volume is designed to be a history and description of the Columbia River. The author has sought to convey to his reader a lively sense...
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Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and NeighbourhoodCollins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood - Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.In this work an attempt is made...
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The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of AdventureThe Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of AdventureThere was nothing about Carne's Hold that would have suggested to the mind of the passing stranger that a curse lay upon it. Houses to which an evil history is attached lie almost uniformly in low...
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The 2nd War with England, Vol. 2 of 2The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Jackson's first service Is...
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The 2nd War with England, Vol. 1 of 2The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2More books, probably, have been written on the War of 1812 than on any other portion of our history. The great political leaders of that time were so vindictive in their animosities, and took such strong...
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Napoléon et l'AmériqueNapoléon et l'Amérique - Histoire des relations franco-américaines spécialement envisagée au point de vue de l'influence napoléonienne (1688-1815)Napolon n'a jamais mis les pieds en Amrique. Il en eut plusieurs fois l'intention. Et plusieurs fois, au cours de son tonnante carrire, son influence fut prpondrante...
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Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old TimesOld New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times - And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845This little tale is an endeavour to call back some shadows from the past: a picture of...
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Catilinarian OrationsSpeeches against CatilinaThe four speeches against Catilina were delivered during the latter part of the year b.c. 63, when Cicero was Consul. L. Sergius Catilina, the author of the conspiracy against which they were directed, was descended from one of the oldest patrician families...
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The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu IThe Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu ISun Yat-sen played many rles in the history of his times. He was one of those dramatic and somewhat formidable figures who engage the world's attention at the very outset of...
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Baltimore and the 19th of April, 1861: A Study of the WarBaltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the WarMessage of the 12th of July, 1861, to the First and Second Branches of the City Council, Referring to the Events of the 19th of April and those which Followed.The First Paragraph and...
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The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 06The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 06THE LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, SILAS DEANE, JOHN ADAMS, JOHN JAY, ARTHUR LEE, WILLIAM LEE, RALPH IZARD, FRANCIS DANA, WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, HENRY LAURENS, JOHN LAURENS, M. DE LAFAYETTE, M. DUMAS, AND OTHERS, CONCERNING THE FOREIGN RELATIONS...
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The Siege of Mafeking (1900)The Siege of Mafeking (1900)I have to acknowledge gratefully permission to publish in this book certain articles contributed before and during the siege of Mafeking to The Times and Black and White. To the editor of the latter paper I am indebted also for...
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Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many LandsCaricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands.In this volume there is, I believe, a greater variety of pictures of a comic and satirical cast than was ever before presented at one view. Many nations, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian,...
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SuperwomenSuperwomen You will discover her in almost every generation, in almost every country, in almost every big citythe Super-Woman. She is not the typical adventuress; she is not a genius. The reason for her strange power is occult. When psycho-vivisectionists have thought they had...
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Curiosities of Human NatureCuriosities of Human NatureAmong the intellectual prodigies which sometimes appear to excite the wonder and astonishment of mankind, Zerah Colburn was certainly one of the most remarkable. He was born at Cabot, Vermont, Sept. 1st, 1804. He was the sixth child of his parents,...
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Blazing the Way Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget SoundBlazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget SoundBLAZING THE WAY. In the early days when a hunter, explorer or settler essayed to tread the mysterious depths of the unknown forest of Puget Sound, he took care to blaze the way....
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Histoire de France 1573-1598 (Volume 12/19)Histoire de France 1573-1598 (Volume 12/19)Quoique la nouvelle sanglante produist partout un effet d'horreur, on put croire que le sang s'coulerait bien rapidement de la terre. Un mois aprs l'vnement, M. de Montmorency, le chef des modrs, qui n'avait d qu' son absence de...
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