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The Gently Orbiting BlondeMaybe Helene's right in saying that I shouldn't tell exactly how our living room became the training station for Space Satellite One. If I don't, though, I'm afraid she'll let it slip out as a deep dark secret to one of...

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 15MR. THOMAS J. DODD (Executive Trial Counsel for the United States): Mr. President, the day before yesterday the Tribunal asked if we would ascertain whether or...

The luckless trapper; or, The haunted hunterThere is a peculiar hiss when a rifle-ball passes in close proximity to one's head, a sound that no doubt chords with some musical note, yet upon most ears the noise is apt to fall rather unpleasantly. So...

The Philistine: a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 1, June 1895)A tiny spot on the map is the Philistia of Old Testament daysa way station on the path of commerce between alphabet-building Phnicia to the north, and Canaan and predatory Arabia on the...

Illustrated history of the United States mint - with a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present timeThe need of a circulating medium of exchange has been acknowledged since the earliest ages of man. In the primeval days, bartering...

Lord Lister No. 0014: De verwisselde detectiveIk zou toch wel eens willen weten, hoe die Overal en Nergens weet, wat ik onze club gezegd heb, zei mr. Hopp tot verscheiden heeren, die in zijn studeerkamer stonden en als een levende muur geschaard waren om...

The Devil's picture-booksThe Devils Books was the name bestowed upon Playing-cards by the Puritans and other pious souls who were probably in hopes that this name would alarm timid persons and so prevent their use. Whether or not his Satanic Majesty originated Playing-cards, we...

"Strictly Business"In at least three inns, the landlords, on hearing the news, spoke words of grave warning to their assistants. More than one inexperienced tradesman, foolishly finding satisfaction in the tidings, began to rummage eagerly among old accounts. In the local police-station, the inspector...

Junge Triebe: RomanDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1922 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen, Schreibvarianten, Dialektausdrcke, sowie fremdsprachliche Passagen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Die Familie sa an dem...

Book of brief narrativesSeveral years ago I was detailed to undertake the solution of a mystery surrounding a robbery which had baffled the police for a month or more. Then two detectives had been set at work upon it and had failed to locate...

Nat Wolfe; or, The gold hunters: A romance of Pike's Peak and New York "Their black hair, thick and lowering, Above their wild eyes hung, And about their frowning foreheads Like wreaths of night-shade clung. 'The bisons! ho, the bisons!' They cried and answered...

Memorials of Human Superstition - being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the SorbonneTHE Abb Boileau, the author of the Historia Flagellantium, was elder brother to the celebrated Poet of that name. He filled, several years,...

Nick Carter Stories No. 159, September 25, 1915: Driven from cover; or, Nick Carter's double ruse.I heard my name called just as I removed the receiver from its hook, Nick explained. The voice sounded like that of a woman, though I am not positive...

Nick Carter Stories No. 158, September 18, 1915: The blue veil; or, Nick Carter's torn trail.The man addressing the famous detective was not one to be wisely interrupted. His strong face, his broad, thin-lipped mouth and square jaw, the glint of his steel-blue eyes,...

Poetry for childrenAs often as I pass a little Blue-coat boy I gaze upon him lovingly: I reverence the quaint vision of a bygone age called up by the long blue gaberdine, the red leathern belt, the yellow stockingsa quaint monkish figure still to...

Underground MovementThe hatch to the front compartment swung open for the first time. One man came out. He turned at once to make sure that the air-tight door behind him had locked. Satisfied that it had, he turned again to look down the cabin...

Short-story masterpieces - Vol. IV - RussianIn the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=. It is really a...

En voyageEt cette fois appuya le petit garon, pour un vrai voyage! a ne sera plus comme notre dpart pour la campagne, qui ne nous laisse que quelques heures dans le train; on a peine le temps de sinstaller. Cest l quon devait samuser...

Œuvres de Voltaire Tome XIX: Siècle de Louis XIV.—Tome IAVEC PRFACES, AVERTISSEMENTS, NOTES, ETC. PAR M. BEUCHOT. TOME XIX. SICLE DE LOUIS XIV.TOME I. A PARIS, CHEZ LEFVRE, LIBRAIRE, RUE DE LPERON, N 6. FIRMIN DIDOT FRRES, RUE JACOB, N 24. WERDET ET LEQUIEN...

The UndamnedPlutonium was an equalizer. Nations learned the art of being polite, just as individuals had learned. To lash out with Plutonium wildly would be inviting national disaster, and to behave in an antisocial manner would get any nation the combined hatred of the...