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Agatized Rainbows: A Story of the Petrified ForestHolding in his hand an assortment of specimens of petrified wood which he had just retrieved from the young lady driving the flashy convertible, the Highway 260 checking station ranger at Petrified Forest National Monument shook his...

Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank OfficerThe story contained in this volume records the experience of a bank officer, living too fast, in the downward career of crime. The writer is entirely willing now to believe that this career ought to...

The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far EastThe Japan-Russia War goes into history as the greatest military struggle the world has known. Its story, therefore, rivals in interest those of the great wars of the past which have been...

German and Austrian Prisons - Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and SpielbergInterest in penal matters in Germany and in Austria-Hungary centres rather in the nature and number of persons who commit crimes than the methods pursued in bringing...

Rubáiyát of a Motor Car1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a...

John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V.These pages are the beginning of a narrative of the personal military experience of John Call Dalton, M. D., Surgeon U. S. V., written during the last year of his life, at the request of his family, and now printed...

New Lights on Old PathsTHE author is expected to say something by way of introducing, or apologizing for, his book. What is its object? Why did he[4] write it, when there are already so many more than are wanted? In reply to these questions...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909Another instalment of a fascinating budget of adventure narratives. This month we publish accounts of a fight to the death between a whale and a school of thresher sharks; a nest-robbers terrible battle with an...

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.Upon my return to the United States a...

Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-handessica, her hands clenched and teeth set, stood looking with hard eyes at a small heap of letters lying on the floor. The sun, blazing through the open window, made her blink unconsciously, and the oceans deep voice rising to the Newport...

Motorcycle, Solo (Harley-Davidson Model WLA)Dissemination of restricted matter.The information contained in restricted documents, and the essential characteristics of restricted materiel, may be given to any person known to be in the service of the United States, and to persons of undoubted loyalty and discretion...

Lady Jane Grey and Her TimesIn 1546 it must have been evident to most observers that the life of the man who had for thirty-five years been Englands ruler and tyrantof whom Raleigh affirmed that if all the patterns of a merciless Prince had...

The Battles of the British Army - Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred YearsAll phases of life and incident relating to the building up and consolidation of our Empire, ought to be of supreme interest to those...

Frenzied Liberty; The Myth of "A Rich Man's War"We are engaged in a war, an irrepressible conflict, a most just and righteous war for a cause as high and noble as ever inspired a people to put forth its utmost of sacrifice and valor....

The Wolf-LeaderWHY, I ask myself, during those first twenty years of my literary life, from 1827 to 1847, did I so rarely turn my eyes and thoughts towards the little town where I was born, towards the woods amid which it lies embowered, and...

Judas RamRoger Tennant, crossing the lawn, could see two of the three wings of the house, which radiated spoke-like from its heptagonal central portion. The wing on the left was white, with slim square pillars, reminiscent of scores of movie sets of the Deep...

Gereformeerde dogmatiek. Eerste deel. Inleiding. Principia.Met een kort woord moge het standpunt dezer dogmatiek in het licht worden gesteld. Niet alleen de geloovige, ook de dogmaticus heeft beldenis te doen van de gemeenschap der heiligen. Alleen met alle de heiligen kan h begrpen, welke...

Die Tänzerin Barberina: Roman aus der Zeit Friedrich des GrossenPhantasieloses poesieloses Gesindel! rief Rinaldo Fossano unmutig, setzte sein Barett auf, warf mit gebter Geschicklichkeit den rot geftterten Mantel um, da der rechte Zipfel auf die linke Schulter flog, und verlie, in der Haltung eines...

Man's Best FriendThe annunciator aroused Gervase from pleasant semi-slumber. He knew the interruption was his own fault for not having turned off the device, but he so seldom had a visitor that he could hardly be blamed for his forgetfulness. Frowning, he pressed the...

Modern French Prisons - Bicêtre; St. Pélagie; St. Lazare; La Force; The Conciergerie; La Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas; La SantéThe period in French prison practice treated in this volume is one of transition between the end of the Old Rgime and the...