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Ali PachaAli Pacha - Celebrated CrimesThe beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and...
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The Countess of Saint GeranThe Countess of Saint Geran - Celebrated CrimesAbout the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at...
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Joan of NaplesJoan of Naples - Celebrated CrimesIn the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the...
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Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fictionand of drama, and the patience of the learned in history. No subject is more obscure and elusive, and none more attractive to...
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Martin GuerreMartin Guerre - Celebrated CrimesWe are sometimes astonished at the striking resemblance existing between two persons who are absolute strangers to each other, but in fact it is the opposite which ought to surprise us. Indeed, why should we not rather admire a Creative...
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DeruesDerues - Celebrated CrimesOne September afternoon in 1751, towards half-past five, about a score of small boys, chattering, pushing, and tumbling over one another like a covey of partridges, issued from one of the religious schools of Chartres. The joy of the little troop...
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La ConstantinLa Constantin - Celebrated CrimesBefore beginning our story, we must warn the reader that it will not be worth his while to make researches among contemporary or other records as to the personage whose name it bears. For in truth neither Marie Leroux, widow...
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NisidaNisida - Celebrated CrimesIf our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naples and then dying, were to ask us what is the most favourable moment for visiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at the mole, or at Mergellina,...
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Urbain GrandierUrbain Grandier - Celebrated CrimesOn Sunday, the 26th of November, 1631, there was great excitement in the little town of Loudun, especially in the narrow streets which led to the church of Saint-Pierre in the marketplace, from the gate of which the town was...
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Massacres of the South (1551-1815)Massacres of the South (1551-1815) - Celebrated CrimesIt is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back as far as the Restoration, will be surprised at the size of the frame required for the picture we are about to bring before him,...
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Karl Ludwig SandKarl Ludwig Sand - Celebrated CrimesOn the 22nd of March, 1819, about nine oclock in the morning, a young man, some twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing the dress of a German student, which consists of a short frock-coat with silk braiding, tight trousers,...
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Mary StuartMary Stuart - Celebrated CrimesSome royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name Henry. Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. As to Henry V, for whom the past...
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The BorgiasThe Borgias - Celebrated CrimesThe first of these three men, sitting at the foot of the bed, and half hidden, that he might conceal his tears, in the gold-brocaded curtains, was Ermolao Barbaro, author of the treatise 'On Celibacy', and of 'Studies in Pliny':...
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CenciCenci - Celebrated CrimesShould you ever go to Rome and visit the villa Pamphili, no doubt, after having sought under its tall pines and along its canals the shade and freshness so rare in the capital of the Christian world, you will descend towards...
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A Grandpa's NotebookA Grandpa's Notebook - Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and CommunicationA Grandpa's Notebook, by Meyer Moldeven Copyright (C) 2000 Meyer Moldeven. All rights reserved. Permission is herewith granted to private individuals, intergenerational programs, senior centers, and public and nonprofit entities...
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ClarenceClarence As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theatre, at San Francisco, he elicited the usual smiling nods and recognition due...
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Confiscation An OutlineConfiscation; An OutlineThe Emancipation Proclamation has only 718 words. Lincoln's address at Gettysburg has only 266 Words. The works of Thomas Paine were not only one of the important factors that brought success to the struggle for Independence, but they were also largely instrumental...
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The Longest JourneyThe Longest Journey The cow is there, said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, She is there, the cow. There, now. I...
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Heartsease Or, The Brother's WifeHeartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old...
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A Doll's House : a playA Doll's House : a play [SCENE.A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmers study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle...
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