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Story of the AeroplaneStory of the AeroplaneAround the dry land of the earth are the oceans of water. We may never have seen them, but we have knowledge of them and their navigation, and their names suggest very definite and concrete objects of thought. We sometimes do...
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Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 - Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2The month covered by this issue of Current History Magazine was the most fateful in a military way since the beginning of the war. The most...
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Our House and London out of Our WindowsOur House and London out of Our WindowsOur finding Our House was the merest chance. J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground,...
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40 - Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions...
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The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852Very little need be said by way of Preface to the present volume. Cities, like individuals, have ever found the utility of giving publicity to the advantages they possess. The respective claims to...
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The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their DesignThe Wright Brothers' Engines and Their DesignThe emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry articulated a program that included the following statement: "It...
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Mémoires du maréchal Berthier ... Campagne d'Égypte, première partieMémoires du maréchal Berthier ... Campagne d'Égypte, première partieLes crits que nous ont laisss sur l'gypte les gnraux Berthier et Reynier, forment encore la meilleure histoire que nous ayons de l'expdition d'Orient: l'un a trac grands traits, les vues, les mouvemens, qui ont amen...
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Highways and Byways in Cambridge and ElyHighways and Byways in Cambridge and ElyThe Highways of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely are usually regarded as unattractive compared with those of England in general. Nor is this criticism wholly unfair. The county does lack the features which most make for picturesque...
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Mémoires du Baron de Bonnefoux, Capitaine de vaisseau, 1782-1855Mémoires du Baron de Bonnefoux, Capitaine de vaisseau, 1782-1855De nombreuses gnrations de marins ont, au cours de ce sicle, tudi les livres du vaillant officier, dont nous publions aujourd'hui les Mmoires. Dou d'un esprit mthodique et clair, il publiait, ds 1824, le premier volume...
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Slavery and the ConstitutionSlavery and the ConstitutionPage 45 was struck off before I became aware that "Master Auld" now shelters Douglass's grandmother under his own roof. We are glad of the fact, and respect Master Auld for his change. But the case of Douglass's grandmother is by...
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Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon, Tome 2/2Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon, Tome 2/2 - Écrits à Sainte-Hélène par les généraux qui ont partagé sa captivitéNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas...
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Down Under with the PrinceDown Under with the PrinceThis book attempts to be a gangway to the Renown for the reader who would travel by battle-cruiser, by train, on horseback, by motor, and on foot, the forty-five thousand miles of his Australasian tour with H.R.H. the Prince of...
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What Shall We Do?What Shall We Do?Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are marked like this in the text. The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. A list of amendments is at the end of the text. The...
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The 13th, Greatest of CenturiesThe Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number,...
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The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6)The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6)Fifty years ago, the opinion was held by some that we could watch, in the tradition of the most ancient realms of the East, the first awkward steps in the childhood of the human race, while others...
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History of Halifax CityHistory of Halifax CityHalifax, the metropolis of Nova Scotia, and the chief City of the Acadian or Lower Provinces, was founded in the year 1749, at the expense of Government, under the direction of the Lords of Trade and Plantations, and was named in...
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The Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A RomanceThe Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A RomanceIt chanced that as I was shifting the volumes in my library this morning, more from sheer fatigue of idleness than with any set intention--for, alas! this long time since I have lost the savour of books--a little...
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The Four Corners of the WorldThe Four Corners of the WorldMr. Twiss was a great walker, and it was his habit, after his day's work was done, to walk from his pleasant office in the Adelphi to his home at Hampstead. On an afternoon he was detained to a...
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Early Days in North QueenslandEarly Days in North QueenslandThe writer came to Queensland two years before separation, and shortly afterwards took part in the work of outside settlement, or pioneering, looking for new country to settle on with stock. Going from Bowen out west towards the head of...
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Gleanings by the WayGleanings by the WayWhen it was not so common, as now, to issue publications from the press, a book of any kind seldom made its appearance, without a preface, to give the reader some idea of its contents, and the history of its elaboration...
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