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Games for All OccasionsGames for All Occasions"A Merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance." The desire to play and frolic seems to be a heritage of mankind. In infancy and early childhood this joy and exuberance of spirit is given full sway. In youth, that effervescent stage of...
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Ship-BoredShip-BoredWhatever the effect of "Ship-Bored" upon others, its publication has exerted a very definite effect upon me, or rather upon the character of my daily mail. Instead of letters the postman now leaves little packages containing pills which, according to the senders, will prevent...
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WoodcraftWoodcraftWoodcraft is dedicated to the Grand Army of "Outers," as a pocket volume of reference on woodcraft. For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are withered before their prime By the curse...
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A Treasury of Eskimo TalesA Treasury of Eskimo TalesThe Central Eskimo live away up north in that great American archipelago which lies between Hudson Bay, Baffin Bay, and the Arctic Ocean; an archipelago in which the islands are so large, so numerous, and so irregular in outline that,...
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Aboriginal American WeavingAboriginal American WeavingWonderful as is the development of modern machinery for the manufacture of American textilesmachinery which seems almost human in the way it converts raw materials into finished cloth; just as surprising are the most primitive looms of the American aborigines, who without...
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Le Tour du Monde; AthosLe Tour du Monde; Athos - Journal des voyages et des voyageurs; 2. sem. 1860Page 123: La phrase Dieu voulant consoler son glise a fait passer l'empire des Grecs SUPERBISSANTS aux Latins humbles, superstitieux et DSOBLES, pieux, catholiques et soumis. est probablement une erreur...
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The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume IIThe Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume IIHaving been honoured by a request from Baron Nordenskild that I would undertake the translation of the work in which he gives an account of the voyage by which the North-East...
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A Boy's Voyage Round the WorldA Boy's Voyage Round the WorldI have had pleasure in editing this little book, not only because it is the work of my youngest son, but also because it contains the results of a good deal of experience of life under novel aspects, as...
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FolkwaysFolkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and MoralsIn 1899 I began to write out a text-book of sociology from material which I had used in lectures during the previous ten or fifteen years. At a certain point...
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A History of Nursery RhymesA History of Nursery RhymesWithout advancing any theory touching the progression of the mother's song to her babe, other than declaring lullabies to be about as old as babies, a statement which recalls to mind an old story, entitled "The Owl's Advice to an...
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Myths and Legends of ChristmastideMyths and Legends of ChristmastideThe celebration of Christmas, which was considered by the Puritans to be idolatrous, has for many centuries been so universal that it may prove of interest to contrast the rites, ceremonies and quaint beliefs of foreign lands with those of...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and AdventureThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and AdventureSir Samuel White Baker was born in London, on June 8, 1821. From early manhood he devoted himself to a life of adventure. After a year in Mauritius he founded a colony in the...
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Fables et légendes du JaponFables et légendes du Japon Ourashima Taro et la Desse de l'Ocan La petite Voleuse La Vengeance du Livre Le monstre Yatama L'unique parapluie Les huit Chevreaux Les aventures de Benk Le vase de Kompito Les Rats au temple Les Fraises de dcembre Le...
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Märchen-SammlungMärchen-Sammlung s ist einmal eine alte Gei gewesen, die hatte sieben junge Zicklein, und wie sie einmal fort in den Wald wollte, hat sie gesagt: Ihr lieben Zicklein, nehmt euch in acht vor dem Wolf und lat ihn nicht herein, sonst seid ihr alle...
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The School of Recreation (1684 edition)The School of Recreation (1684 edition) - Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, FishingThis text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may...
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Italian Popular TalesItalian Popular TalesBy popular tales we mean the stories that are handed down by word of mouth from one generation to another of the illiterate people, serving almost exclusively to amuse and but seldom to instruct. These stories may be roughly divided into three...
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Le Tour du Monde; AustralieLe Tour du Monde; Australie - Journal des voyages et des voyageurs; 2. sem. 1860Arrive en Sicile. Palerme et ses habitants. Les monuments de Palerme. La cathdrale de Monreale. De Palerme Trapani. Partenico. Alcamo. Calatafimi. Ruines de Sgeste. Trapani. La spulture du couvent des...
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Voyages du capitaine Robert Lade en differentes parties de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'AmériqueVoyages du capitaine Robert Lade en differentes parties de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'AmériqueDe qui attendroit-on des Relations de Voyages plus utiles & plus interessantes que des Anglois? La moiti de leur Nation est sans cesse en mouvement vers les parties du monde...
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Notable Voyagers, From Columbus to NordenskioldNotable Voyagers, From Columbus to NordenskioldColumbus before the conclave of Professors at SevilleHis parentage and early historyBattle with Venetian galleysResidence in PortugalMarries widow of a navigatorGrounds on which he founded his theoryOffers his services to the King of PortugalHis offer declinedSends his brother Bartholomew...
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Japanische MärchenJapanische MärchenNicht mit Unrecht wird Japan als das wunderbare Sonnenland bezeichnet; denn neben seinen wirklich wunderbaren Naturreizen bieten Kunst und Literatur, ganz besonders die des Altertums, eine schier unerschpfliche Fundgrube nicht nur fr den wissenschaftlichen Forscher sondern auch fr den Schngeist und fr den...
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