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The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America[Pg 3] The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birch bark, were among the most highly developed of manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from materials available in the...

Orphans of the VoidIn the region of the Coal Sack Nebula, on the dead fourth planet of a star called Tyban, Captain Steffens of the Mapping Command stood counting buildings. Eleven. No, twelve. He wondered if there was any significance in the number. He...

The Moons of MarsHe seemed a very little boy to be carrying so large a butterfly net. He swung it in his chubby right fist as he walked, and at first glance you couldn't be sure if he were carrying it, or it carrying...

Newark's Last Fifteen Years, 1904-1919. The Story in OutlineThis compilation is an attempt by a busy library staff to put into form convenient for use a large group of such facts and figures as experience shows are often asked for. The notes which follow...

The Flying Machine Boys on Secret Service; Or, The Capture in the AirTwo aeroplanes lay in a green basin in the heart of the Rocky mountains. To the east of the basin lay a slope of half a mile or more. At the top...

The Flying Boys in the SkyOne mild summer morning in 1910, Ostrom Sperbeck, a professional aviator, stood on the edge of a broad meadow belonging to the merchant, Gabriel Hamilton, closely watching the actions of Harvey Hamilton, the seventeen-year-old son of his friend, to...

Mammals of the Southwest Mountains and MesasThe only point in the United States at which four states adjoin is where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico come together. With adjacent portions of California, Nevada, and Texas, they contain all of our Southwestern Desert. Arizona...

The Causes of the Successes of the Ottoman TurksBy the fall of the Seljukian dynasty in Asia Minor, a vast number of Turks, scattered over the fertile tracts of Western Asia, were left without any organized government. The Emirs of the Seljouks in their...

Mrs. Dot: A FarceThe Performing Rights of this play are fully protected, and permission to perform it, whether by Amateurs or Professionals, must be obtained in advance from the authors Sole Agent, R. Golding Bright, 20 Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W.C., from whom...

A Bad Day for SalesThe big bright doors of the office building parted with a pneumatic whoosh and Robie glided onto Times Square. The crowd that had been watching the fifty-foot-tall girl on the clothing billboard get dressed, or reading the latest news about...

How to Make FriendsIn the beginning, he had seen many advantages to being alone. It would give him an unprecedented opportunity to once and for all correlate loneliness to the point of madness, to see how long it would take him to start slavering...

Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes Title: Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes Author: Anonymous Release Date: January 1, 2016 [EBook #50817] Language: English Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made...

Dick Kent with the EskimosMuffled from head to foot in hooded caribou shirts and bearskin trousers, five persons slowly plodded across a vast tundra within the Arctic Circle. Many days, by land and by boat from the Canadian coast, had brought them to a...

Oxford Poetry, 1917 Title: Oxford Poetry, 1917 Author: Wilfred Rowland Childe et al. Release Date: January 1, 2016 [EBook #50815] Language: English Credits: Produced by MWS, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made...

Prize MoneyThe rules for disposing of the proceeds of prizes captured in war is a question of municipal law. After a prize has been legally condemned, international law has no direct concern with the ultimate disposition which the captor state may choose to make...

Thibaut und Savigny - Zum 100jährigen Gedächtnis des Kampfes um ein einheitliches bürgerliches Recht für DeutschlandKlassische Schriften der Wissenschaft haben zunchst geschichtliche Bedeutung, indem sie uns die Auffassungen der Vergangenheit kennen lehren und damit die Keime der Gegenwart aufdecken. Darber hinaus aber haben sie...

The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 1Authors of Autobiographies are much exposed to fall into self-glorification. If I nevertheless have undertaken to write the following pages, I have done so because of the unexpectedly favourable criticism which the first...

What Happened at Quasi: The Story of a Carolina CruiseIt was hot in Charlestonintensely hotwith not a breath of air in motion anywhere. The glossy leaves of the magnolia trees in the grounds that surrounded the Rutledge house drooped despairingly in the withering, scorching,...

Patience Worth: A Psychic MysteryThe compiler of this book is not a spiritualist, nor a psychologist, nor a member of the Society for Psychical Research; nor has he ever had anything more than a transitory and skeptical interest in psychic phenomena of any character....

Harper's Young People, December 27, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly An angel voice on Judah's plain Announced to men a Saviour's birth: Each Christmas sends the sweet refrain Re-echoing wider o'er the earth. Whence come the joys of Christmas-tide? A Child from Heaven has...