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Hot PlanetThe wind which had nearly turned the Albireo's landing into a disaster instead of a mathematical exercise was still playing tunes about the fins and landing legs as Schlossberg made his way down to Deck Five. Mardikian, the geophysicist, shrugged. "Just what you'd...

Scientific American Architects and Builders Edition, No. 26, Dec., 1887Best in principle, workmanship, and materials. An unequalled small Motor adapted to all uses. When the Motor is not at work, the expense of running it ceases. Simple, Safe, Economical, Durable. No extra Insurance required....

Récréations littéraires, curiosités et singularités, bévues et lapsus, etc.[p. 7]En runissant les curiosits et singularits, les bvues, lapsus, etc., rencontrs par moi dans mes lectures, je nai obi aucun sentiment hostile nos grands crivains, Corneille, Racine, Molire, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Daudet, Zola, Michelet, Sainte-Beuve,...

A Visit to NewfoundlandI know where there is a poppy-bed by a broken fence, and a house belonging to the poppy-bed, where old Mrs. Pike lives. Mrs. Pike can neither read nor write, but she commands respect, and her face is eloquent with the...

Sweet ToothThe side road meandered down a long slope into a wooded hollow where a breeze born of cool bowers and shaded brooks made the July afternoon heat less oppressive. A quantity of the pique that had been with him ever since setting forth...

The Serpent River"Split" Campbell and I brought our ship down to a quiet landing on the summit of a mile-wide naked rock, and I turned to the telescope for a closer view of the strange thing we had come to see. There was no...

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical EssayThis is an age of unions. Not merely in the economic sphere, in the working world of unworthy ends and few ideals do we find great practical organizations; but law, medicine, science, art, trade, commerce, politics and political economywe might...

$1,000 a PlateSunset on Mars is a pale, washed out, watery sort of procedure that is hardly worth looking at. The shadows of the cactus lengthen, the sun goes down without the slightest hint of color or display and everything is dark. About once...

Matkamies: Runoja Kulkija harhaavainen elmn taipaleen, vento ja muukalainen minne m ikn meen. Outona omaisille, vieraana vierahille ylpeen yksin kulkee tllainen matkamies, kunnes hn silmt sulkee. Miss? Sen Herra ties! Turhaan hn tuttua tupaa joskus etsinyt on, turhaan toivonut lupaa astua joukkohon: katsehet karsaat...

A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to BooksTHIS brochure owes its existence to Mr. Power's Handy Book about Books, a large portion of which was reproduced in the American Bibliopolist. An examination of so much as Mr. Power...

Miekka ja sana II: Historiallisia kertomuksiaTurun syysmarkkinat, jotka vanhastaan pidettiin Maarian syntympivn eli syyskuun kahdeksantena, muodostuivat vuonna 1596 tavallista vilkkaammiksi ja vkirikkaammiksi. Pitempn kestneet kauniit ilmat olivat houkutelleet kaupunkiin vke lhelt ja kaukaa. Joki oli sulloutunut niin tyteen aluksia, ett Katinhnnn poikaviikarit juosta vilistivt...

Mitteilungen aus dem germanischen Nationalmuseum. Jahrgang 1896 In der Gemldegallerie des Germanischen Nationalmuseums befindet sich unter Nr. 273 ein Bildnisdiptychon, das, wie aus dem rckseits angebrachten Familienwappen zu entnehmen ist, den Nrnberger Brger Hans Straub und seine Gattin Barbara Pirkheimer darstellt[2]. Die Straube waren...

Evening IncenseMay He with whom is "the residue of the Spirit," "cause His Angel to fly swiftly" and touch us in the time of our Evening Oblation; and may all that is amiss in thought and word be lost in the fragrant incense-cloud which...

The Connecticut Wits, and Other EssaysIN the days when Connecticut counted in the national councils; when it had men in the patriot armies, in Washingtons Cabinet, in the Senate of the United Statesmen like Israel Putnam, Roger Sherman, Oliver Wolcott, Oliver Ellsworth,in those same...

Dreadnoughts of the Dogger: A Story of the War on the North SeaTitle: Dreadnoughts of the Dogger A Story of the War on the North Sea Author: Robert Leighton Release Date: January 13, 2016 [EBook #50914] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 I.WHAT'S BRED...

NiamhSa bhliain d aois an Tighearna naoi gcad cheithre fichid a ceathair do thg Brian Bramha Luimneach -s na Lochlanaigh. Do loisg s an chathair, agus an mid des na Lochlanaigh nr marbhuigheadh agus nr tgadh n-a bprsnachaibh, bigean dibh teitheadh le n-a n-anam...

Eine Teufelsaustreibung, und andere Geschichten Einerseits gehre ich zwar zum Adel, stehe aber andererseits dem Volke nahe; meine Mutter ist aus dem Kaufmannsstande. Sie stammte aus einer sehr reichen Familie, hatte aber gegen den Willen ihrer Eltern, aus Liebe zu meinem Vater geheiratet. Mein...

Der versiegelte Engel, und andere Geschichten Es war um die Weihnachtszeit, am Vorabend des Wassilijtages. Das Wetter lie sich sehr ungndig an. Einer der grausamen Landstrme, welche die Winter in den Wolgasteppen berchtigt machen, hatte eine Menge Leute in den abgelegenen Gasthof getrieben, ein...

The Story of NapoleonThere is no more marvellous story in human history than that of Napoleon I., Emperor of the French. His career is one long demonstration of the reality of the proverb, Truth is stranger than fiction. So fascinating are the details of...

The Golden Key; Or, A Heart's Silent WorshipA heart-broken wail completed the sentence as the pale, beautiful woman, resting upon the snowy pillows of an old-fashioned canopied bed, covered her face with her delicate hands and fell to sobbing with a wild sorrow which...