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Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of AssyriaChaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of AssyriaI. MESOPOTAMIA.THE MOUNDS.THE FIRST SEARCHERS. 1. In or about the year before Christ 606, Nineveh, the great city, was destroyed. For many hundred years had she stood in arrogant splendor, her palaces towering above the...
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Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone RiverPersonal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone RiverAs will be perceived by the above caption to this paper, it is proposed to relate what happened to me, and what I observed during the battle alluded to, and might not inappropriately be styled...
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Diversions in SicilyDiversions in SicilyYour father and I, sitting one summer night on the terrace at Castellinaria watching the moon on the water, agreed that this book might be dedicated to you, although you have not yet put it into my power to ask your permission....
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Old Times at OtterbourneOld Times at OtterbourneNot many of us remember Otterbourne before the Railroad, the Church, or the Penny Post. It may be pleasant to some of us to try to catch a few recollections before all those who can tell us anything about those times...
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In het Oerwoud en bij de Kannibalen op de Nieuwe Hebriden (deel 1 van 2)In het Oerwoud en bij de Kannibalen op de Nieuwe Hebriden (deel 1 van 2) - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1917De schetsen, die Felix Speiser tijdens zijn reis naar de Nieuwe Hebriden ten papiere bracht, willen geen uitvoerige beschrijving geven van de eilanden...
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A Treatise on the Art of DancingA Treatise on the Art of DancingThis text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. 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...
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Beautiful EnglandExeterJust as the five cities of Colchester, Lincoln, York, Gloucester, and St. Albans, stand on the sites and in some fragmentary measure bear the names of five Roman municipalities, so Isca Dumnoniorum, now Exeter, appears to have been a cantonal capital developed out of...
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Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the RevolutionReminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the RevolutionThe writer of the following pages was dandled upon the knee of a worthy sire,...
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A Journey to America in 1834A Journey to America in 1834Washington, by R. Potomac to Fredericksburg, then stage via Orange Court, Charlottesville, Brookville, over Blue Ridge Mountains to Staunton. Jenning's Gap, Charrodale, Warm Springs, Hot Springs, Sulphur Springs, Lewisburg, Kamley, Deak, Hawk's Nest, R. Kanawha, Charleston to Guyandotte, thence...
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Booker T. Washington, Builder of a CivilizationBooker T. Washington, Builder of a CivilizationIT IS not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For twenty years before his death he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the...
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José EstevãoJosé Estevão - (Edição do centenario)Eis porque tambem sahe agora a lume a reproduco--segunda--d'essas sinceras e desataviadas palavras que uma vez, por occasio das ultimas festas commemorativas do grande tribuno, o signatario d'este opusculo teve ensejo de pronunciar no Theatro Aveirense. Foi no radioso...
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The Negro and the NationThe Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement HASKELL HOUSE PUBLISHERS Ltd. Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books NEW YORK. N. Y. 10012 1970 First Published 1906 HASKELL HOUSE PUBLISHERS Ltd. Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books 280 LAFAYETTE STREET NEW...
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The Monitor and the MerrimacThe Monitor and the Merrimac - Both sides of the storyThis is the first-hand story of what was done and seen and felt on each side in the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac. The actual experiences on both vessels are pictured, in...
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History of the Nineteenth Army CorpsHistory of the Nineteenth Army Corps The box rules and period leaders have been removed from the Losses in Battle tables and the headings "Officers" and "Enlisted men", set vertically in the original, have been abbreviated "O" and "E". Text has been extended across...
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Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?[Pg 1] If there is one subject which, above all others, may be regarded as of national interest at the present time, it is the subject of Slavery. Wherever we go, north or south, east or west, at the...
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A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of NapoleonA Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and CollegesIn preparing this History, I make no claim to original and profound investigations; but the arrangement, the style, and the sentiments, are my own....
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History of the 39th Congress of the United StatesHistory of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United StatesThe history of the Thirty-Ninth Congress is a sequel to that of the Rebellion. This having been overthrown, it remained for Congress to administer upon its effects. It depended upon the decisions of Congress whether the...
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The Story of My LifeThe Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in CanadaEntered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, by Mary Ryerson and Charles Egerton Ryerson, in the Office of...
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The Story of Cole Younger, by HimselfThe Story of Cole Younger, by Himself Many may wonder why an old guerrilla should feel called upon at this late day to rehearse the story of his life. On the eve of sixty, I come out into the world to find a hundred...
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Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict ArnoldColonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict ArnoldThis address was delivered for the purpose of calling attention to the present condition of the marble monument erected at Stone Arabia, N.Y., to the memory of Colonel Brown in 1836, now insecure...
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