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The Lost Continent We were both of us not a little stiff as the result of sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be trifled with. For...

The House of MirthIt was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train,...

The Reef All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had hammered the words of the telegram into George Darrows ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketry, letting them, one by...

Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastAt Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of women still shone in the...

Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of HonoluluSir,It may probably occur to you that we have met, and visited, and conversed; on my side, with interest. You may remember that you have done me several courtesies, for which I was...

Records of a Family of EngineersFrom the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times...

Photos and Maps of Trinity (Atomic Test) Site You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90...

Trinity Site: 1945-1995. - A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico "The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole...

Trinity Site On Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever when the first atomic bomb was tested in an isolated area of the New Mexico desert. Conducted in the final month of World War II by the top-secret Manhattan Engineer District,...

Franz Haydn's 104th Symphony [1794-5] - MIDI file You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90...

The Augsburg Confession - The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 Most Invincible Emperor, Caesar Augustus, Most Clement Lord: Inasmuch as Your Imperial Majesty has summoned a Diet of...

Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of IndulgencesOut of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of...

The Smalcald Articles Since Pope Paul III convoked a Council last year, to assemble at Mantua about Whitsuntide, and afterwards transferred it from Mantua, so that it is not yet known where he will or can fix it, and we on our part either...

An Open Letter on TranslatingThe wise Solomon says in Proverbs 11: "The people who withhold grain curse him. But there is a blessing on those who sell it." This verse speaks truly concerning all that can serve the common good or the well-being of...

Black Beauty The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side...

Dream Days In the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle with...

Beasts and Super-BeastsThe Open Window, The Schartz-Metterklume Method, and Clovis on Parental Responsibilities, originally appeared in the Westminster Gazette, The Elk in the Bystander, and the remaining stories in the Morning Post. To the Editors of these papers I am indebted for their courtesy...

The Octopus : A Story of California Just after passing Caraher's saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos, Presley was suddenly aware of the faint and prolonged blowing of a...

The Touchstone Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, asks us to state that he will be greatly indebted to any of the famous novelists friends who will furnish him with information concerning...

Confessio Amantis; Or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins Torpor, ebes sensus, scola parua labor minimusque Causant quo minimus ipse minora canam: Qua tamen Engisti lingua canit Insula Bruti Anglica Carmente metra iuuante loquar. Ossibus ergo carens que conterit ossa loquelis Absit, et interpres...