Latin America Local History
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L'umorismoL'umorismo Alessandro D'Ancona, in quel suo notissimo studio su Cecco Angiolieri da Siena,[1] dopo aver notato quanto vi sia di burlesco in questo nostro poeta del sec. XIII, osserva: Ma per noi l'Angiolieri non soltanto un burlesco: bens anche, e pi propriamente, un umorista....
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The Humour of AmericaThe Humour of America - Selected, with an Introduction and Index of American HumoristsWHEN the unfortunate man standing on the scaffold was asked by a spectator to make a speech, he said that, considering the interesting programme which had been prepared by their good...
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The Junior Classics, Volume 3: Tales from Greece and RomeThe Junior Classics, Volume 3: Tales from Greece and RomeHomer, that king of story-tellers, traveller and well-loved school teacher, is supposed to have lived in Greece about three thousand years ago. Trained story-tellers or bards, with extraordinary memories, were not rare in that simple...
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 17, February, 1921Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 17, February, 1921 - America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyAlong about the first of September last year, my cellar supply gave out and on the second day I had a look of languor like a homesick...
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Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaGleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaAn earlier edition of Gleanings having attracted the hearty approval of a limited circle of that class of readers who prefer a running banquet that hath much variety, but little of a sort, the present...
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The Erotic Motive in LiteratureThe Erotic Motive in LiteratureThis work is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It attempts to read closely between the lines of an author's works. It applies some principles in interpreting literature with a scrutiny hitherto scarcely deemed...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 Prentiss had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the...
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Vagabonding down the AndesVagabonding down the Andes - Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos AiresIn the Monte Grande, the Great Wilderness of Bolivia, the commander of the first garrison insisted on sending a boy soldier, with an ancient and rusted Winchester,...
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Bulfinch's MythologyBulfinch's Mythology - The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; Legends of CharlemagneThose who have investigated the origin of the romantic fables relating to Charlemagne and his peers are of opinion that the deeds of Charles Martel, and perhaps of other Charleses, have...
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The Art of Theatrical Make-upThe Art of Theatrical Make-upLooking back on the method of production of this book, it seems to me not to have been so much a matter of toil as a natural growth. It seems to have produced itself, for my earliest photographs were taken...
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Breaking into the moviesBreaking into the moviesWere the average man suddenly called upon to assemble all the women in his town who looked like Mary Pickford, he might find himself at a loss as to how to commence. In fact, he might even doubt that there were...
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Samling af Swenska OrdspråkSamling af Swenska Ordspråk - i ordning ställde efter alfabetet, med tillägg af någre utur Latinen och andre Språk, liklydande eller motswarandeAt Swenska Folket frn urldriga tider haft en srdeles smak och fallenhet fr mrka och gt-lika talestt, fwen som korta Ord- och Sedosprk,...
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The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central AmericaThe Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central AmericaThe Popol Vuh is the New Worlds richest mythological mine. No translation of it has as yet appeared in English, and no adequate translation in any European language. It has been...
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The NewspaperThe NewspaperSo common an object as a newspaper is seldom the subject of serious reflection. If any one of us should stop to consider what it is and why it is made, it is odds that he would think chiefly of one aspect of...
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Proverbs and Their LessonsProverbs and Their Lessons - Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereIt may be as well to state, that the lectures which are here published were never delivered as a complete course, but only one here and...
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Der Spiegel: Anekdoten zeitgenössischer deutscher ErzählerDer Spiegel: Anekdoten zeitgenössischer deutscher ErzählerIm Schatzkstlein steht die Geschichte des deutschen Binnenlnders, der in die groe Stadt Amsterdam kommt und vor einem stolzen Schiff, einem prchtigen Haus und einem gewaltigen Begrbnis fragt: Wer ist es, dem dies gehrt? Kannitverstan, ist die Antwort, und...
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The War of ChupasThe War of ChupasPedro de Cieza de Len was, on the whole, the most important historian, and is now the best authority, on ancient Peru, so far as his work has reached us; for he was a great traveller, and an eye-witness of much...
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Der tolle KofferDer tolle Koffer - Eine ff. prima Musterkollektion der besten Witze, Schnurren und Anekdoten von Reisenden und Kaufleuten Ein Schnorrer wird im Coup ohne Billett angetroffen und auf der nchsten Station rausgeworfen, nachdem man ihn tchtig verprgelt hat. Es gelingt ihm aber, bei der...
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El Payador, Vol. IEl Payador, Vol. I - Hijo de la PampaTitulo este libro con el nombre de los antiguos cantores errantes que recorran nuestras campaas trovando romances y endechas, porque fueron ellos los personajes ms significativos en la formacin de nuestra raza. Tal cual ha pasado...
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Pleiades Club Year Book 1910Pleiades Club Year Book 1910But apply these and other bromidic definitions to the art and literature of to-daymeasure them up against the Sunday newspaper, or Peter Pan at the theatre, or picture exhibitions of the Independent Artists and the followers of Matisseand assuredly there...
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