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Der Weltkrieg, I. Band - Die Vorgeschichte des WeltkriegesIch vermesse mich nicht, die Geschichte des Weltkrieges zu schreiben. Das mag ruhigeren Zeiten vorbehalten bleiben, in denen die Menschheit einigermaen Distanz zu den Ereignissen des Weltkrieges gewonnen hat. Wohl aber glaube ich, heute schon einiges...

Cape Gloucester: The Green InfernoOn 26 December 1943, Marines wade ashore from beached LSTs passing through a heavy surf to a narrow beach of black sand. Inland, beyond a curtain of undergrowth, lie the swamp forest and the Japanese defenders. Department of Defense (USMC)...

Hanhiemon satujaOli kerran pieni maalaistytt, kaunein mit kuvitella voi. iti oli hneen hullaantunut, ja isoiti viel enemmn. Tm kunnon muori teetti tytlle pienen punaisen phineen, joka sopi hnelle niin hyvin, ett hnt kaikkialla nimitettiin pieneksi Punahilkaksi. Susi veti salpaa, ja ovi aukeni. Hn syksyi...

Skyttes på Munkeboda: Hemliv i Skåne 1830 Marssolen sken skarpt och klart p hela det lnga vita husets framsida och in genom de ngot grnaktiga fnstren, som sutto hgt upp. I den halvppna frstugudrren ovanfr den hga stentrappan stod Agneta och klippte med gonen...

Hints on Mountain-Lion TrappingTHE AMERICAN MOUNTAIN-LION (Felis concolor) is one of the largest predatory animals of the United States, sometimes weighing more than 200 pounds. Game conservationists recognize it as the greatest natural enemy of deer. Stockmen learn to their sorrow that when game...

Hints on Bobcat TrappingBOBCAT is the name by which the wild cats of the genus Lynx are known in most of the United States, particularly the warmer partsWest and Southwest. Though related to the mountain lion, or cougar, both being members of the same...

Information for the Guidance of Field Men and Cooperators of the Bureau of Biological Survey Engaged in the Control of Injurious Rodents and Predatory AnimalsThe demands made upon the Federal Government some years ago for aid in suppressing those wild animals of the public...

Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote ControlThere is perhaps no better method of keeping down the increase of coyotes than to destroy the newly born whelps before they abandon the dens to shift for themselves. A little time spent in locating dens in...

Gentlemen of the Jury: A FarcePrecise. We have been instructed to bring a verdict, Guilty or not guilty. Please write your verdict. Here are slips of paper. (Passes them round. All write, some on the table, some on chairs; Snowball writes his against the...

The MikirsIn 1882 Edward Stack, appointed the first Director of the newly-created Department of Land Records and Agriculture in Assam, entered upon his duties in that province, and applied himself with ardour to the study of its people. He had passed just ten years...

Wanderungen durch die interessantesten Gegenden des Sächsischen Obererzgebirges (Erstes Heft) - Ein Beitrag zur specielleren Kenntniß desselben, seines Volkslebens, seiner Gewerbsarten, Sitten und GebräucheDie lndliche Wohlhabenheit, welche die volk- und gewerbreiche Stadt Chemnitz meilenweit um sich verbreitet und selbst die nahen Drfer mit einer...

Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same AuthorI have travelled through the United States, North, East, South, and West, and have received in my travels the greatest kindness. If Jumbo could but speak, I know he would endorse what...

John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal ReminiscencesThe reminiscences of his life and work were dictated to me by my father during the summer of 1916. He touched only upon the main events. There are countless unmentioned things that would add to this story...

English Grammar and Composition for Public SchoolsThe plan of the work is inductive and practical, and the author has endeavored to make the book a useful one for the purposes of teaching. Every principle is presented through the observation of examples of good English....

The Black GalleyIt was a dark and stormy night in the first days of November of the year 1599 when the Spanish sentry in Fort Liefkenhoek on the Flemish side of the Scheldt sounded the alarm, urgent drumming woke the sleeping garrison and each...

On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and ScafellBooks about British mountains are mostly of two kinds, the popular, written for the tourist, and the technical, written by the rock-climber. The author of this little study of the hills of Carnarvonshire and Cumberland...

The Hungry Heart: A NovelCourtship and honeymoon of Richard Vaughan and Courtney Benedict are told accurately enough by a thousand chroniclers of love's fairy tales and dreams. Where such romances end in a rosily vague "And they lived happily ever after," there this history...

La Gaviota: A Spanish novelGAVIOTA (sea-gull) is the sobriquet which Andalusians give to harsh-tongued, flighty women of unsympathetic mien and manners; and such was applied to the heroine of this tale by a youthful, malicious tormentorMomo. Fernan Caballero is, indeed, but a pseudonym: the...

Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century - being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910The varying fortunes of the obstinate and fiercely contested struggles with the Dutch for maritime and commercial supremacy in the days of the Commonwealth and...

Stories of FortuneANY years ago I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the mortification consequent upon his disasters,...