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The Century of ColumbusThe Century of Columbus To many people the date of the discovery of America must seem somewhat out of place. At least it must be hard for them to understand just how it came about that before the fifteenth century closed so great a...
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Curiosités historiques sur Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Mme de Maintenon, Mme de Pompadour, Mme du Barry, etcCuriosités historiques sur Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Mme de Maintenon, Mme de Pompadour, Mme du Barry, etc.Les curiosits historiques que renferme ce volume se rapportent principalement au chteau de Versailles et aux rgnes de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV et de Louis...
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Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen AdelaideGlimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide - In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow FamilyTHE following pages are mainly compiled from certain letters by Miss Mary Clitherow, which...
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Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 - A history of Company F, First United States sharp shootersVery soon after the outbreak of the war for the Union, immediately, in fact, upon the commencement of actual operations in the field,...
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London in Modern TimesLondon in Modern Times - or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. This history of an old city opens many views into the realms of the past, crowded with the picturesque, the romantic, and the religiouswith what is beautiful...
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A Hero of TiconderogaA Hero of TiconderogaA solitary hunter, clad in buckskin and gray homespun, thridded his way among the gray trunks of the giant trees, now blended with them and their shadows, now briefly touched by a glint of sunlight, now casting up the powdery snow...
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A Noble Woman: The Life-Story of Edith CavellA Noble Woman: The Life-Story of Edith CavellEdith Louisa Cavell was born in 1866 at the country rectory of Swardeston, near Norwich, of which parish her father, the Rev. Frederick Cavell, was rector for forty years. In that pleasant sunny house the little girl...
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The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden AgeThe Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age A.B.P. June, 1921. [Pg 3] Originally I began this story with a number of instructive chapters on shipping an automobile, and I followed with certain others full of pertinent comment on ocean travel in...
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The Negro in Literature and Art in the United StatesThe Negro in Literature and Art in the United StatesThe present volume undertakes to treat somewhat more thoroughly than has ever before been attempted the achievement of the Negro in the United States along literary and artistic lines, judging this by absolute rather than...
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Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South AfricaTwo Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South AfricaLouis Eugne du Moulin was of French descent. By birth he was a New Zealander. He passed through Sandhurst and entered the army in 1879, joining the 107th Regimentnow the...
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Les Rues de Paris, tome troisièmeLes Rues de Paris, tome troisième - Biographies, portraits, récits et légendesL'orthographe a t conserv mais harmonis lorsque les mots se trouvaient crits de diffrentes faons; seules les erreurs videntes de typographie ont t corriges. Les majuscules qui le demandaient ont toutefois t accentues....
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Napoleon's Young NeighborNapoleon's Young NeighborThis book, chronicling some little known passages in the last few years of Napoleon, is based on the "Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena," by Mrs. Abell (Elizabeth Balcombe), published in 1844 by John Murray. Her little book is written in an...
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The Court Houses of a CenturyThe Court Houses of a Century - A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of ElginThe Wonderful Century is before the bar of history. Its record shows everywhere progress, consolidation, expansion, improvement. Civilization has...
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Indian Stories Retold From St. NicholasIndian Stories Retold From St. NicholasThe books do not pretend to give anything like connected history, but by means of the story that thrills and interests they impart the real spirit of the times they depict in a way no youthful reader will be...
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Childéric, Roi des Francs, (tome second)Childéric, Roi des Francs, (tome second)Note 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 non pas t repris. Viomade s'est loign. Le roi sent...
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Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham LincolnBoys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. Little Stories of Lincoln. HOW HE LOOKED. FREEDOM IN THE CABINET. A GREAT MAN. A FORGIVING MAN. KIND OF LAWYER. AN UGLY MAN. THE BULL STORY. THE...
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Les assiègés de Compiègne, 1430Les assiègés de Compiègne, 1430La rapide et merveilleuse carrire de Jeanne d'Arc est un rayon de soleil au milieu des plus terribles malheurs de la France; la catastrophe du sige de Compigne, en 1430, la termina comme par un coup de foudre. Chef d'arme...
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A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF L O U I S I A N A, EMBRACING TRANSLATIONS OF MANY RARE AND VALUABLE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE NATURAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF...
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De politieke partijen in Nederland en de christelijke coalitieDe politieke partijen in Nederland en de christelijke coalitieOverduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het origineel zijn gecorrigeerd; deze zijn voorzien van een dunne rode stippellijn, waarbij de Brontekst via een zwevende pop-up beschikbaar is. Variaties in spelling (met/zonder afbreekstreepje, wel/niet hoofdletter, wel/niet superscript, verschillend...
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Childéric, Roi des Francs, (tome premier)Childéric, Roi des Francs, (tome premier)Note 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 non pas t repris. Je suis venue vers vous, parce...
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