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A Little House in War TimeA little chronicle of a great time may have an interest of its own quite incommensurate from its intrinsic worth. These pages do not pretend to any merit beyond faithfulness; but they are the true record of the everyday...

The Ultimate EveThe sun had not yet taken the chill out of the early April morning that broke on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, when the ship settled to the ground. It was surprisingly large compared to the aircraft native to this planet,...

Hagerty's EnzymesHarper Breen sank down gingerly into the new Relaxo-Lounge. He placed twitching hands on the arm-rests and laid his head back stiffly. He closed his fluttering eyelids and clamped his mouth to keep the corner from jumping. Harper tried to let go of...

A Century's Progress in AstronomyThe present volume originated in a desire to present, in small compass, a record of the marvellous progress in astronomy during the past hundred years. Indebtedness should be acknowledged to the valuable works of Professor Newcomb, Professor Schiaparelli, Professor Lowell,...

With the GunsAs these sketches of the changing phases of modern war are largely concerned with the work of the artillery, as, indeed, they are written from the standpoint of that branch of the Service, this would seem to be a favourable place to...

The Space BetweenOne hour and forty-one minutes before deceleration, the spacecopter materialized off to right, matching precisely the 3360 kilometers per second speed of the Box. Jak SP34509260 jerked erect in answer to blinking red lights and screeching collision whistles. The dark glass and...

Valkoinen hevonenI. Erss meksikolaisessa rajakylss. II. Vakooja. III. Muonan hankinta. IV. Kummallinen kirje. V. Villihevosen pyydystminen. VI. Eksyksiss aavikolla. VII. Ateria aavikolla. Kuokkavieras. VIII. Vanhoja tuttuja. IX. Kulovalkea. X. Sissijoukko ja sen lhettils. XI. Pelkoa ja toivoa. XII. Pakoon. XIII. Kalliolla. XIV. Ystvk vai...

Olvasás közben: Jegyzetek és megjegyzésekEngem minden meghat, nha knyhullatsig megindt, ami emberi munkval fgg ssze, ami emberi erfesztsre emlkeztet, ami kicsiben vagy nagyban kpt mutatja a hsiessgnek, melylyel nemnk az meztelen s vdetlen szomor llatisgbl jv, nemess s mveltt kzdtte fl magt. A szpsget...

Speeches at the Constitutional Convention - With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional ConventionMonths previous to the time that the recent Constitutional Convention met, Conservatives and Reformers, announced publicly their intention to disfranchise the Negro in South Carolina. For this pamphlet such...

Beer-Trust Busters"It's a hell of a note when one guy controls the beer situationlet's do Dudley dirty!" rang the war cry of Doc, Listless and Outhouse. And the intrepid trio went blearily about the business of dirtying Dudleyempty bottles marking their trail. We pulled...

Dick Merriwell's Heroic Players; Or, How the Yale Nine Won the ChampionshipA half million enthusiastic followers of the Merriwell brothers will attest the unfailing interest and wholesomeness of these adventures of two lads of high ideals, who play fair with themselves, as well as...

Galambos Pál naplója; Jobbadán AmerikábanArra neveltek a szleim, hogy kltsek s nem arra, hogy keressek. El is kltttem mindent, a mit rm hagytak, urasan, elkeln. Egy reggel aztn reg inasom, a ki mindig ismerte vagyoni viszonyaimat, igy szlt: Nem. n itthon eladom a butorokat,...

LupeSegundo o meu ideial,falso talvez, mas sincero,tanto maior se revela o artista quanto mais singular a sua obra, isto , quanto mais se destaca da dos outros, affirmando nitidamente, por meio de suas peculiaridades, o eu de quem a criou. Ponderou muito bem um...

The Beast-Jewel of MarsHe lay on his stomach, a lean man in faded one piece dungarees, and an odd metallic hat, peering over the side of the canal. Behind him the little winds sifted red dust into his collar, but he could not move;...

Battlefield in BlackA lovely image shimmered on the visa-phone screen in Captain Jon McPartland's cabin. He stood before the instrument, drinking in the vision with his eyes, and feeling it race through his blood like a rocket wash. But his square jaw was set...

Andrée and His BalloonOn the afternoon of Sunday, the 11th of July, 1897, the balloon Ornen left the port of Virgo, Spitzbergen, carrying in its car Messrs. Andre, Strindberg, and Fraenkel, the bold explorers, starting for the conquest of the North Pole. All the...

Kulturgeschichte der NutztiereDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1912 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert; Rechtschreibvarianten wurden nicht vereinheitlicht, sofern die Verstndlichkeit des Textes dadurch nicht berhrt wird. Fremdwrter und Transliterationen (vorwiegend aus dem Griechischen) wurden weder...

Im Morgenlicht. Kriegs-, Jagd- und Reise-Erlebnisse in OstafrikaDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1907 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen sowie Schreibvarianten bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert, sofern der Sinn...

Una Excursión a los Indios Ranqueles - Tomo 1Ciertas reglas de acentuacin ortogrfica del castellano cuando la presente edicin de esta obra fue publicada, en 1909, eran diferentes a las existentes cuando se realiz la transcripcin. Palabras como vi, fu, di, lo mismo que...

When Thoughts Will Soar: A romance of the immediate futureMr. John A. Toker, the American multimillionaire, flung down his newspaper in some excitement and became lost in thought. The paragraph that had so agitated him read: The sovereign expressed to Count Zeppelin his regret...