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Wrestling and WrestlersWrestling and Wrestlers - Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger BaitingThe ancient Grecians were passionately fond of festivals and games. In every particular State such institutions were occasionally celebrated for the amusement...
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The Scottish Fairy BookThe Scottish Fairy BookThere are, roughly speaking, two distinct types of Scottish Fairy Tales. There are what may be called "Celtic Stories," which were handed down for centuries by word of mouth by professional story-tellers, who went about from clachan to clachan in the...
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Zanzibar Tales: Told by Natives of the East Coast of AfricaZanzibar Tales: Told by Natives of the East Coast of AfricaThirty years ago Central Africa was what people who are fond of airing their learning would call a terra incognita. To-day its general characteristics are pretty well known. Then, as now, the little island...
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BoatingBoatingAs parts of human life and practice the out-of-door games and amusements with which Englishmen are familiar have had a long course of development, and each has its own history. To trace this development and history in any particular case is not always an...
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The Fascinating BostonThe Fascinating Boston - How to Dance and How to Teach the Popular New Social FavoriteSINCE the introduction of the waltz, more than a hundred years ago, it has held the first place in the esteem of dancers throughout the civilized world. There has...
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Fifty Years of GolfFifty Years of Golf(Written in 1919) Reading the above "foreword," and also the pages which follow it, after the immense chasm cleft in our lives and habits by the War, I find little to modify as a result of the delay in publication. What...
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Maantieteellisiä kuvaelmia erityisistä maista ja kansoistaMaantieteellisiä kuvaelmia erityisistä maista ja kansoista - Kirja Kouluille ja KodeilleEuroopa, Mauer'in, Fix'in y.m.m. mukaan Suomen luonto, K. F. Ignatius'en mukaan Suomen kansasta, Z. Topelius'en mukaan Helsingin satama Kansan luonne ja tavat Saarijrven pitjss, Runeberg'in mukaan Saima, Topelius'en mukaan Punkaharju, Topelius'en mukaan Imatra, Topelius'en...
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The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North CornwallThe Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North CornwallThe tales given in this small volume, with one exception, are from North Cornwall, where I have always lived. The scene of The Piskey-Purse is from Polzeath Bay (in maps called Hayle Bay, which is not its...
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Holidays and Happy-DaysHolidays & Happy-DaysLittle children are usually snug in bed when the first holiday of the year arrives. It comes at midnight when all is dark out of doors. Sometimes the weather is very cold, here in England, with snow upon the ground; and as...
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Ulster FolkloreUlster FolkloreIn 1894 I was at the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, and had the good fortune to hear Professor Julius Kollmann give his paper on "Pygmies in Europe," in which he described the skeletons which had then recently been discovered near...
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Games Without Music for ChildrenGames Without Music for ChildrenThose of the Games referring to special subjects, such as 'Sewing,' etc., may be used in the lesson time devoted to such subjects, and the 'Guessing Rhymes,' Nos. 51 to 97, may sometimes be given between lessons. For notes on...
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The Happy GolferThe Happy Golfer - Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering GolferThe first of the seven wonders of golf is a mysterious fascination that it sets towards mankind, from which, overwhelming and enduring, no people are immune. The game seizes...
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Tales of the Sun or, Folklore of Southern IndiaTales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern IndiaIt has often struck all lovers of Folklore and National Legends with wonder, that so many countries should have reproduced in different imagery and language the same tales. Persia, Arabia, and India give us the same...
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Finger PrintsFinger PrintsThe palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are covered with two totally distinct classes of marks. The most conspicuous are the creases or folds of the skin which interest the followers of palmistry, but which are no more significant...
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My Attainment of the PoleMy Attainment of the Pole - Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar ControversyThis narrative has been prepared as a general outline of my conquest of the North Pole. In it...
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Les primitifs: Études d'ethnologie comparéeLes primitifs: Études d'ethnologie comparéeLa dmographie et l'ethnologie tudient les grands faits de la nutrition et de la reproduction, de la natalit et de la mortalit, l'une dans l'homme physique, l'autre dans l'homme moral. La dmographie compare les donnes statistiques, les met en srie,...
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The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His CareerThe Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career The account of the alleged voyage of Amerigo Vespucci in 1497-98 was written for that worthy's own countrymen, and for foreigners who lived at a distance from the Peninsula. When, after some...
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Nicotiana Or, The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's CompanionNicotiana; Or, The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's CompanionMany an excellent cause has been lost through the want of sound arguments, founded on a knowledge of the case, to support and place it in its proper light. None, perhaps, more than smoking and snuff-taking, the propriety...
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Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other MattersMaxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters - Also, Miseries of FishingHaving settled the above question in the affirmative, get some person who knows the water to show you whereabout the fish usually lie; and when he shows them to you,...
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The Romance of Polar ExplorationThe Romance of Polar Exploration - Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the “Discovery”While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach the Poles have been told again and again, the constant renewal...
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