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Guernsey Folk LoreGuernsey Folk Lore - a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that islandSir Edgar MacCulloch at his death, which occurred July 31st, 1896, bequeathed his manuscript collection of Guernsey Folk-Lore to the Royal Court...
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Home Entertaining: Amusements for Every OneHome Entertaining: Amusements for Every OneThis collection of games, tricks, and pastimes is the result of many years effort to find the most clever and practical diversions and entertainments suitable for the home. Each trick has been tested by the editor, and each sport...
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Nordmanna-Mystik: Bilder Från Nordens ForntidNordmanna-Mystik: Bilder Från Nordens ForntidDessa sagor ro visserligen nedskrifna, frst sedan kristendomen blifvit infrd p n Island, nmligen i det tolfte och de nrmast fljande rhundradena, och man kunde drfr vnta, att frfattarne ltit p mnga punkter sitt egna kristna skdningsstt insmyga sig i...
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CricketCricket[vii] PREFACE. A few lines only are necessary to explain the object with which these volumes are put forth. There is no modern encyclopdia to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of the various British Sports and Pastimes, can turn...
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Prehistoric MenPrehistoric MenUp to the end of the last glaciation, we prehistorians have a relatively comfortable time schedule. The farther back we go the less exact we can be about time and details. Elbow-room of five, ten, even fifty or more thousands of years becomes...
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The Far North: Exploration in the Arctic RegionsThe Far North: Exploration in the Arctic RegionsIn May 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a North-West Passage, or water communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the...
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Czech Folk TalesCzech Folk TalesThe present collection is intended to exemplify the spirit of the Czech race. It may perhaps be objected that folk-tale themes are part of a common stock belonging to all European races, and even to many primitive peoples: but though this is...
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The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427If any reliance is to be placed in a MS. marginal note that appears on a page of an old edition of the Travels of Schiltberger, presumed to...
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Round About the North PoleRound About the North PoleAmong the many books about the Polar regions there is none quite like this, dealing with the gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle. The subject is always interesting, for...
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With ski and sledge over Arctic glaciersWith ski & sledge over Arctic glaciersThe story of the exploration of the interior of Spitsbergen, begun in 1896, as described in my former book entitled The First Crossing of Spitsbergen, is continued in the present volume, which is to be regarded as an...
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Cave HuntingCave Hunting - Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of EuropeLegends and Superstitions connected with Caves.The Physical Division of the Subject.The Biological.The Inhabitants of Caves.Men and Animals.Ethnological, Archological, and Geographical Bearings.The three Classes of Bone-Caves: Historic, Prehistoric, Pleistocene.History of Cave...
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Prehistoric ManPrehistoric Man - Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New WorldThe recent development of archology as a science is due in no slight degree to the simplicity which characterises the prehistoric disclosures of Scandinavia, Ireland, and other regions of...
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Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England during the 8th centuryVestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England during the eighth centuryTranscribers Note: Minor errors of punctuation and printing have been repaired, but the transcriber does not fancy she knows the writers meaning better than he knows it himself, and has...
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Um die Erde: Eine ReisebeschreibungUm die Erde: Eine ReisebeschreibungDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1894 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Ungewhnliche, altertmliche, sowie inkonsistente Schreibweisen, insbesondere bei Namen und fremdsprachigen Ausdrcken und Zitaten (z.B. Cannon anstatt Canyon; Phineas Fox anstatt Phileas Fogg) bleiben unverndert, sofern...
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Ancient Scottish Lake-Dwellings or CrannogsAncient Scottish Lake-Dwellings or Crannogs - With a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in EnglandIn publishing this work few prefatory remarks are required, beyond an explanation of the circumstances which led to its assuming the present form. The primary object contemplated was to...
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Hints to Young Yacht SkippersHints to Young Yacht SkippersThis book is the response to a constant appeal for information. During the last nine years I have received thousands of letters, asking for hints on all manner of subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small...
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Wonder Stories of TravelWonder Stories of TravelTHE Turkish battery ashore thundered a royal salute to General Grant as the Vandalia which bore him from port to port in the Mediterranean steamed up to her anchorage in the harbor of Smyrna. Thirty great iron-clads followed in quick succession;...
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Glacières or, Freezing CavernsGlacières; or, Freezing CavernsMany kind friends have given me information about glacires or assistance in my work. I am especially indebted to Mr. Robert Butler, of San Jos, Cal.; Mr. F. H. Cushing, of Washington, D. C.; Professor Charles E. Fay, of Tufts College,...
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Home Arts for Old and YoungHome Arts for Old and Young Title: Home Arts for Old and Young Author: Caroline L. Smith Release Date: May 30, 2016 [EBook #52197] Language: English Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Chris Jordan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was...
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The Puzzle KingThe Puzzle King - Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.It is hoped that this little book may prove useful, not...
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