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Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City CavalryCampaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry - April 25-November 11, 1898For all that is good in this little book acknowledgment is due to Captain John C. Groome, Lieutenant J. Frank McFadden, Lieutenant J. Willis Martin, Sergeant John Wagner, Jr., Sergeant Robert E....
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Guy Fawkes or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical RomanceGuy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical RomanceThe tyrannical measures adopted against the Roman Catholics in the early part of the reign of James the First, when the severe penal enactments against recusants were revived, and with additional rigour, and which led to...
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A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin InfantryA Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin InfantryThe author of this volume was born at Vernon, Connecticut, on March 12, 1838, of a long line of New England ancestry; he was sixth in order of descent from Governor Thomas Hinkley of Plymouth Colony....
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The Civil War Centennial HandbookThe Civil War Centennial HandbookThe Civil War, which began in the 1830's as a cold war and moved toward the inevitable conflict somewhere between 1850 and 1860, was one of America's greatest emotional experiences. When the war finally broke in 1861, beliefs and political...
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Kankanay CeremoniesKankanay Ceremonies - (American Archaeology and Ethnology)Since the Kankanay have been studied very little, the exact extent of their culture area is not at present certain. The Igorot of northern Benguet, and almost all of the people living in Amburayan and southern Lepanto, speak...
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A History of the Republican PartyA History of the Republican PartyEarly in February, 1900, the writer delivered an address before the Stamina Republican League of Cincinnati on "The Origin and Rise of the Republican Party." The interest in the subject shown by the audience and the many words of...
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The Hindoos as They AreThe Hindoos as They Are - A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in BengalIn presenting the following volume to the Public, I am conscious of the very great disadvantage I labor under in attempting to communicate my...
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La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 2La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 2Gli spettacoli si alternavano con le feste, e le une e gli altri si succedevano con inalterata puntualit. Titolati, civili, popolani vi prendevano parte e se le godevano in ragione del loro grado, della...
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La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 1La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 1Quella vita, cos diversa dall'attuale, in certe sue esteriorit, per chi non se ne sia occupato di proposito, poco o punto nota: ed tale, non tanto pel comune preconcetto che la storia contemporanea sia...
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The Crime of the CongoThe Crime of the CongoI am convinced that the reason why public opinion has not been more sensitive upon the question of the Congo Free State, is that the terrible story has not been brought thoroughly home to the people. Mr. E. D. Morel...
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Cathedral Cities of ItalyCathedral Cities of ItalyTHE cathedral cities of Italy, the heir of all the ages in art, are as full of enchantment to the lover of architecture as to the poet, the painter, and the historian. Side by side with the great churches that give...
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The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my CaravanThe Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my CaravanI need, I believe, do little more herein, than state that the following pages were written on the road, on the coup of my caravan, and from day to day. First impressions,...
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Lincoln, the PoliticianLincoln, the PoliticianLove of kind alone transcended Lincoln's political ambition. His career as President, Statesman, Emancipator is a mystery unless his preparation for leadership is demonstrated. He was no product of sudden elevation, no creature of opportunity. No American Statesman was better equipped to...
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Louis XI et Les États Pontificaux de France au XVe siècleLouis XI et Les États Pontificaux de France au XVe siècleNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Il...
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Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, BartSome Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. - Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review"Either this is envy in...
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The History of Cuba, vol. 2The History of Cuba, vol. 2The Index included at the end of this etext (which includes volumes 1 thru 4) appears at the end of volume four of The History of Cuba. It is provided here for the convenience of the reader. One of...
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From School to Battle-field: A Story of the War DaysFrom School to Battle-field: A Story of the War Days"If there's anything I hate more than a rainy Saturday, call me a tadpole!" said the taller of two boys who, with their chins on their arms and their arms on the top of the...
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Wild Wales: The People, Language, and SceneryWild Wales: The People, Language, & SceneryTALK ABOUT WILD WALES BY THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON I have been invited by the editor of this series to say a few words upon Borrows Wild Wales. The invitation has come to me, he says, partly because during the...
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The War of the Axe Or, Adventures in South AfricaThe War of the Axe; Or, Adventures in South AfricaIn the early summer of the year of grace 1844 the Surat Castle, a fine clipper barque of 400 tons burthen, left the London docks on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, with...
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Thomas Hart BentonThomas Hart BentonEven before the end of the Revolutionary War the movement had begun which was to change in form a straggling chain of sea-board republics into a mighty continental nation, the great bulk of whose people would live to the westward of the...
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