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The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-EarnersThe Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners Volume 40 of the Chronicles of America Series Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys Copyright, 1919 by Yale University Press Printed in the United States of America Three momentous...
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The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of IndustryThe Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry A comprehensive survey of the United States, at the end of the Civil War, would reveal a state of society which bears little resemblance to that of today. Almost all those commonplace...
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The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the StatesThe Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into...
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The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do...
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The Man-Made World Or, Our Androcentric CultureThe Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture OUR ANDROCENTRIC CULTURE, or THE MAN-MADE WORLD I. AS TO HUMANNESS. II. THE MAN-MADE FAMILY. III. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. IV. MEN AND ART. V. MASCULINE LITERATURE. VI. GAMES AND SPORTS VII. ETHICS AND RELIGION. VIII. EDUCATION. IX....
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Evolution and Ethics, and Other EssaysEvolution and Ethics, and Other Essays The letters which are here collected together were published in the "Times" in the course of the months of December, 1890, and January, 1891. The circumstances which led me to write the first letter are sufficiently set forth...
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The Disguising at HertfordThe Disguising at Hertford This version is made available with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, the owners of the unique original manuscript. For the purposes of this multi-platform electronic text, the medieval 'thorn' (a character representing 'th')...
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The City of the SunThe City of the Sun Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the inhabitants I...
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The Commonwealth of OceanaThe Commonwealth of Oceana JAMES HARRINGTON, eldest son of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Exton, in Rutlandshire, was born in the reign of James I, in January, 1611, five years before the death of Shakespeare. He was two or three years younger than John Milton....
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Marquise De GangesMarquise De Ganges - Celebrated CrimesToward the close of the year 1657, a very plain carriage, with no arms painted on it, stopped, about eight oclock one evening, before the door of a house in the rue Hautefeuille, at which two other coaches were...
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VaninkaVaninka - Celebrated CrimesAbout the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul Ithat is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth centuryjust as four oclock in the afternoon was sounding from the church of St. Peter and St....
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Celebrated Crimes (Complete)Celebrated Crimes (Complete)The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the...
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Marquise BrinvillierMarquise Brinvillier - Celebrated CrimesTowards the end of the year 1665, on a fine autumn evening, there was a considerable crowd assembled on the Pont-Neuf where it makes a turn down to the rue Dauphine. The object of this crowd and the centre of...
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MuratMurat - Celebrated CrimesOn the 18th June, 1815, at the very moment when the destiny of Europe was being decided at Waterloo, a man dressed like a beggar was silently following the road from Toulon to Marseilles. Arrived at the entrance of the Gorge...
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Ali PachaAli Pacha - Celebrated CrimesThe beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and...
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The Countess of Saint GeranThe Countess of Saint Geran - Celebrated CrimesAbout the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at...
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Joan of NaplesJoan of Naples - Celebrated CrimesIn the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the...
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Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fictionand of drama, and the patience of the learned in history. No subject is more obscure and elusive, and none more attractive to...
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Martin GuerreMartin Guerre - Celebrated CrimesWe are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existing between two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but in fact it is the opposite which ought to surprise us. Indeed, why should we not rather admire a Creative...
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DeruesDerues - Celebrated CrimesOne September afternoon in 1751, towards half-past five, about a score of small boys, chattering, pushing, and tumbling over one another like a covey of partridges, issued from one of the religious schools of Chartres. The joy of the little troop...
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