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Door Centraal-OceaniëDoor Centraal-Oceanië - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1908Al sinds langen tijd had Frankrijk, dat helder inzag welk voordeel er te trekken viel van het werk der zendelingen, de gewoonte, jaarlijks een zijner schepen naar de Stille Zuidzee te zenden, om tegelijk met het...
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The Story of Baden-Powell: 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'The Story of Baden-Powell: 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'If amid the storm and stress of your academic career you find an hour's relaxation in perusing the pages of this book, all the travail that I have suffered in the making of it will be...
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British Highways and Byways from a Motor CarBritish Highways and Byways from a Motor Car - Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and ScotlandIn this chronicle of a summer's motoring in Britain I have not attempted a guide-book in any sense, yet the maps, together...
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Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and IrelandFifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and IrelandI. Introductory II. Boyhood III. The Midland Railway and King Hudson IV. Fashions and Manners, Victorian Days V. Early Office Life VI. Friendship VII. Railway Progress VIII. Scotland, Glasgow Life, and the Caledonian Line IX....
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Pictures in Colour of the Isle of WightPictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight Among the numerous holiday resorts which claim the attention of the travelling public, the Isle of Wight will be found to possess attractions of very varied character. It has often been the theme of poets and...
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Kauppahuone Playfair ja KumppKauppahuone Playfair ja Kumpp - eli Pumpulilasti ja SydänEnsiminen virta, jonka aallot ovat vaahdonneet hyryaluksen rattaansiipien alla, on Clyde. Tm oli 1832. Hyryaluksen nimi oli Comet ja tm kulki snnllisesti Glasgowin ja Greenochin vli kuuden peninkulman [peninkulmilla tss kirjassa aina ymmrretn Englannin peninkulmia, joita...
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The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and SerbiaThe Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and SerbiaIt is curious to follow anything right back to its inception, and to discover from what extraordinary causes results are due. It is strange, for instance, to find that the luck of the thirteen...
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New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AegeanThe New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the ÆgeanOwing to the disturbed conditions which prevailed throughout most of southeastern Europe during the summer and autumn of 1919, the journey recorded in the following pages could not have been taken had it not...
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The Dance (by An Antiquary)The Dance (by An Antiquary) - Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. CHAPTER IV The "Early English" and "Mediaeval" dance to the fourteenth century. This sketch of the iconography of the dance does not pretend to be a history of...
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The Wonders of PompeiiThe Wonders of PompeiiA railroad runs from Naples to Pompeii. Are you alone? The trip occupies one hour, and you have just time enough to read what follows, pausing once in a while to glance at Vesuvius and the sea; the clear, bright waters...
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Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian RebelsHerzegovina; Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian RebelsThe wanderings of an unknown in an unknown land may not be a subject of universal interest, and as such require a few words of apology, or possibly of defence. To convey an accurate idea of a...
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Germinie LacerteuxGerminie LacerteuxIl aime les petites uvres polissonnes, les mmoires de filles, les confessions d'alcves, les salets rotiques, le scandale qui se retrousse dans une image aux devantures des libraires: ce qu'il va lire est svre et pur. Qu'il ne s'attende point la photographie dcollete...
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History of FranceHistory of France1. France.The country we now know as France is the tract of land shut in by the British Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, and the Alps. But this country only gained the name of France by degrees. In...
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Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of MexicoIndian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico - Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142If any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if a diacritic...
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Rome in 1860Rome in 1860My first recollections of Rome date from too long ago, and from too early an age, for me to be able to recall with ease the impression caused by its first aspect. It is hard indeed for any one at any time...
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Navajo SilversmithsNavajo Silversmiths - Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 167-178Among the Navajo Indians there are many smiths, who sometimes forge iron and brass, but who work chiefly in...
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Ontario Teachers' Manuals: HistoryOntario Teachers' Manuals: HistoryThe course in literature and composition includes the telling by the teacher of suitable stories from the Bible, stories of primitive peoples, of child life in other lands, of famous persons and peoples; and the oral reproduction of these stories by...
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Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578))Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578))A number of typographical errors found in the original text have been maintained in this version. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in...
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Dewey and Other Naval CommandersDewey and Other Naval CommandersI purpose telling you in the following pages about the exploits of the gallant men who composed the American Navy, beginning with the Revolution and ending with the story of their wonderful deeds in our late war with Spain. You...
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Antiquités d'Herculanum, Tome V. BronzesAntiquités d'Herculanum, Tome V. BronzesFIG. I. Nous suivons un ordre naturel en commenant la suite des figures entires par les Divinits. Jupiter, le souverain des Dieux, doit paratre le premier; on le reconnat facilement ce caractre donn de grandeur et de majest, sa chevelure...
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