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All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and WaterwaysAll Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways Canada is the child of the sea. Her infancy was cradled by her waterways; and the life-blood of her youth was drawn from oceans, lakes, and rivers. No other land of equal area has ever been...
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The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards FellowshipThe Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards FellowshipEither we are all citizens of the same city and war between us, a civil war, a monstrous iniquity to be forgotten, as soon as it may bring in peace; or else there is...
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America First: Patriotic ReadingsAmerica First: Patriotic ReadingsThis dramatization of the Continental Congress portrays the spirit of the times during the period of the American Revolution. It deals principally with the debates for and against the Declaration of Independence; it is a summary of the grievances, struggles, sacrifices,...
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A History of Sea PowerA History of Sea Power This volume has been called into being by the absence of any brief work covering the evolution and influence of sea power from the beginnings to the present time. In a survey at once so comprehensive and so short,...
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The Arbiter: A NovelThe Arbiter: A NovelLady Gore began to feel a little annoyed. It is [Pg 2]fatiguing to hear one's aunt say the same thing twice. The burden of conversation is unequally distributed if one has to think of two answers to each one remark of...
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Early English Meals and MannersEarly English Meals and MannersIf these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding...
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The Sacred Formulas of the CherokeesThe Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees - Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained...
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The South of France—East HalfThe South of France—East HalfFRANCESouth-East Halfincluding the whole of the Valley of the Rhne in France, with the adjacent Departments; the Valley of the Upper Loire, with the adjacent Departments; the Riviera; the Passes between France and Italy; and the Italian towns of Turin,...
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The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. Volume 2, 1844-1853The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. Volume 2, 1844-1853The index of this three-volume work is in Volume III, with links to all three volumes; and some footnotes are linked between volumes. These...
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The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2New foes for oldRoumanian activitiesThe Italian frame of mindSensitiveness with respect to their armyAn unfortunate naval affairWhat was happening at PolaThe story of the "Viribus Unitis"How the Italians landed at PolaThe sea-faring YugoslavsWho set a standard that was too...
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Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 2)Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 2)Aprs avoir parcouru les principales les places dans l'Ocan atlantique vis--vis le continent africain, et dont les Europens se sont empars la mme poque o ils commencrent reconnatre (p. 002) la cte occidentale de cette partie du...
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A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and CavalryA Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and CavalryTrue, a mere fire at a distance may finally destroy him. But an insuperable objection to this mode of attack is, that while we are killing or disabling his men, he...
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Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and DiscoveriesCaptain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and DiscoveriesAmong all those Englishmen who, from a humble origin, have risen to an honourable position, Captain James Cook is especially worthy of record. His parents were of the peasant classhis father having commenced life as a farm-labourer, and...
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The Story of General GordonThe Story of General Gordon When boys read the old fairy tales, and the stories of King Arthur's Round Table, and the Knights of the Faerie Queen, they sometimes wonder sadly why the knights that they see are not like those of the olden...
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Achenwall's Observations on North AmericaAchenwall's Observations on North AmericaReprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January, 1903 The most complete work on the British Colonies in North America is the Summary historical and political by William Douglas, of which the second improved edition was published in...
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Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 2Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 2. Der Beschreibung unserer Reise nach den Missionen am Caripe wollte ich keine allgemeinen Betrachtungen ber die Stmme der Eingeborenen, welche Neu-Andalusien bewohnen, ber ihre Sitten, ihre Sprache und ihren gemeinsamen Ursprung einflechten. Jetzt, da wir...
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The Battle of Spring Hill, TennesseeThe Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee - read after the stated meeting held February 2d, 1907MORE than twenty-five years have passed since I began to collect the materials from which this pamphlet has been evolved. As a substantial basis, to begin with, I was...
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Decisive Events in American HistoryThe Campaign of Trenton 1776-77Seldom, in the annals of war, has a single campaign witnessed such a remarkable series of reverses as did that which began at Boston in March, 1776, and ended at Morristown in January, 1777. Only by successive defeats did our...
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Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in SolitudeBidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude"If an American dramatist or novelist had taken for the ground work of a play or work of fiction the story of the Bidwell family to-day related on another page of the Herald,...
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A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureA History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureIn speaking of art we often contrast the useful or mechanical arts with the Fine Arts; by these terms we denote the difference between the arts which are used in making such things as...
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