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The History of Lapland - Wherein Are Shewed the Original, Manners, Habits, Marriages, Conjurations, &c. of That PeopleThe Reader may please to take notice, that the diligent and learned Author of this History, (to the writing of which he was commanded, and therein assisted...

American Masters of Painting - Being Brief Appreciations of Some American PaintersBEING BRIEF APPRECIATIONS OF SOME AMERICAN PAINTERS ILLUSTRATED WITH EXAMPLES OF THEIR WORK BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1913 {iv} Copyright, 1901, 1902, by THE SUN...

The Old GoatDr. Angstrom was known to his students and many of his colleagues on the faculty as "The Old Goat." Very appropriate, that name. He had the disposition of a goat with dyspepsia, he had the cold blue eyes of a goat, he...

Petrified Forest National Monument (1953)Petrified Forest National Monument, containing 85,304 acres of federally owned land, has the greatest and most colorful concentration of petrified wood known in the world. In the monument are six separate forests where giant logs of agatized wood lie prostrate,...

Emin PashaEmin Pasha, sometimes called the father of the Equatorial Provinces, is a notable figure in the records of African exploration. He was preminently a scientist and was devotedly fond of zology and botany. Amid all his cares of office, his sufferings from the...

Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona (1959)Montezuma Castle National Monument, in the Verde Valley of central Arizona, protects one of the best preserved and most interesting cliff dwellings in the United States. Within the monument, occupying part of a limestone cliff which borders Beaver Creek...

The Frithiof SagaIceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which includes the telling of the story of a heros life and adventures in a fixed, regular form, and which is usually intended for recitation, though the Saga is never set...

Chiricahua National Monument (1958)The National Park System, of which this area is a unit, is dedicated to conserving the scenic, scientific, and historic heritage of the United States for the benefit and enjoyment of its people. Unbelievably tall and slender pinnacles, startling likenesses of...

Mar sanguigno (Offerta al nostro buon vecchio Dio) Sono intorno a me otto uomini vecchissimi che il mare da lungo tempo ripudi. Da tuguri pieni di bimbi e d'immagini sacre, da giacigli posti tra reti rotte e detriti di barca, questi che non pi...

Dramas de Guillermo Shakspeare [vol. 4]Fuera! vuestras casas, holgazanes, marchad vuestras casas! Acaso es hoy da de fiesta? Qu! Sois trabajadores, y no sabis que en da de trabajo no debis andar sin la divisa de vuestra profesin?Habla! Cul es tu oficio? Ciudadano 2.En...

Original Plays, Second SeriesScene: A tropical landscape. In the distance, a calm sea. A natural fountaina mere thread of waterfalls over a rock into a natural basin. An old sun-dial formed of the upper part of a broken pillar, round the shaft of which...

Life and Adventure in the South Pacific The present volume lays no claim to literary merit. Two young men, led to engage in the whale-fisheries, and spending five years in the employment, have compiled from their log-books and their recollection a plain, unvarnished narrative...

De lynch-wetHet was omtrent drie ure in den namiddag. Een eenzame ruiter, in Mexicaansche kleeding, reed in snellen galop langs den oever eener rivier zonder naam, die zich in de Rio Gila uitstort, en wier grillige kronkelingen hem noodzaakten om tallooze omwegen te maken....

The Practitioner. May, 1869. - A Monthly Journal of TherapeuticsI have long formed the opinion that the prevailing method of determining the value of any particular medicine or mode of treatment is essentially faulty. Practitioners, after watching a few cases, form a favourable opinion...

The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls - Being the Adventures of Harry and Philip with Their Tutor, Mr. Douglass, at the World's Columbian Exposition Whats he found out now, I wonder? said Harry to Philip, in a low tone. I dont...

Venus. To the Venus of Melos 3Modelled by the sea, which is the reservoir of all the forces, you enchant us and you sway us by that grace and by that calm which strength alone possesses, and you bestow on us your serenity. It...

The Rumble and the RoarWhen Joseph got to the office his ears were aching from the noise of the copter and from his earplugs. Lately, every little thing seemed to make him irritable. He supposed it was because his drafting department was behind schedule...

Woman's work in municipalitiesWith a truly remarkable grasp of a widely extended movement, Mrs. Beard has summarized and emphasized the work that the women of America have done in behalf of rescuing the city from the powers of evil and inefficiency, and placing it...

The Costume of China - Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the ChineseExhibiting the various kinds of weapons, offensive and defensive, in use among the Chinese infantry, cavalry, artillery, and bowmen, arranged on a stand or frame of wood. One or more...

Busy Ben and Idle Isaac IN a very pretty village, there once lived two boys, named Benjamin and Isaac. Benjamin was always at work, doing something; but Isaac liked best to take his ease, and did not care, like Benjamin, to be tidy and...