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War GameThe President nodded, spoke to master control through the intercom box on his desk, and switched on the TV screen. They had a special pipe-line into the United Nations Cellar. They sat back, had martinis, and watched the interior of the Cellar come...

Animal CastrationIn presenting this concise treatise upon castration of the domestic animals, it is not intended to offer new modes of operation, but merely to collect together the various methods in use and leave the reader to appreciate them at their value. It is...

Shock TroopZurg thwirmed, and admitted to himself that he was uneasy. Arching his thorax, he unrolled his antennae slowly in a lazy gesture he hoped would conceal the unseemly nervousness he felt now that the ship had swung into an orbit around the strange...

Your Servant, SirThe chubby woman glared at the android and dropped her suitcase on the floor. She turned to her husband and said in an angry, unsteady voice, "I'm leaving." Her double chin trembled. "I can't stand the sight of that thing another second."...

Harper's Young People, August 29, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyLuckily the water was only four feet deep, as Charley found when he tried to touch bottom; so he stopped swimming, and with the water nearly up to his shoulders, stood still and began to...

CommunicationFor many years before space flight was accomplished, there had been discussions and theories about how to communicate with Martians, if any existed. But, of course, nobody was ready when the time came. Von Frisch, Riley and Smith watched the half dozen Martians approach,...

Poison-ivy, Poison-oak and Poison Sumac: Identification, Precautions and EradicationPOISON-IVY, poison-oak, and poison sumac remind most people of painful experiences to be avoided, yet many do not know any one of the offending plants or their equally poisonous relatives. Learning to recognize them on sight...

House FliesSir: I have the honor to transmit for publication a paper dealing with the subject of the house fly or typhoid fly. Previous publications of this department concerning this insect have been in circular form, but it is desired to make this information...

The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., 1834-35In issuing the first number of the "SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER," the publisher hopes to be excused for inserting a few passages from the letters of several eminent literary men which he has had the pleasure to receive, approving...

The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 2 (of 2) - Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc. An important phase in the life of Panizzi has now been entered upon; but before detailing the facts, we...

An essay on the government of children, under three general heads, viz. health, manners, and educationNothing is more evident, than that a Love of our Children is a great ruling Principle in human Nature; and that it makes a large Part of that Self-love...

Cancer: Its Cause and Treatment, Volume 1 (of 2)Cancer has hitherto been regarded almost wholly from its histological and surgical aspects. The investigators and practitioners along these lines have been innumerable, the work done prodigious, and the literature relating thereto enormous. But relatively little...

Signs & WondersI had been pondering the elements that go to the making of the human entity, and more particularly that new aspect of the theory of the etheric body which presents it as a visible, ponderable, tangible, highly organised, but almost incredibly tenuous,...

Tappan's Burro, and Other StoriesTAPPAN gazed down upon the newly-born little burro with something of pity and consternation. It was not a vigorous offspring of the redoubtable Jennie, champion of all the numberless burros he had driven in his desert-prospecting years. He could not...

Die Welträtsel: Gemeinverständliche Studien über Monistische PhilosophieDie vorliegenden Studien ber monistische Philosophie sind fr die denkenden, ehrlich die Wahrheit suchenden Gebildeten aller Stnde bestimmt. Zu den hervorragenden Merkmalen des 19.Jahrhunderts, an dessen Ende wir stehen, gehrt das lebendige Wachstum des Strebens nach Erkenntnis der...

Turkey RaisingThe number of turkeys in this country decreased for a time after the 1890 census, but during recent years the industry has been growing, largely because of improved methods of controlling turkey diseases and better methods of management. TURKEY RAISING has long been...

Wrong AnalogyRuth was standing at the vast window of the spaceport, her body taut and eager, the luggage piled high around her. When Harvey Flanders came out of the ship carrying the last two suitcases, she darted to him. Harvey's eyes followed the sweep...

Viisikymmentä runoa ja kuusi lauluaKaikista nykyisemmn ajan suomalaisista runoniekoista on Paavo Korhonen kuuluisimman nimen voittanut. Hn syntyi muunna 1775 Vihtajrven [sanotaan tt taloa paikoin Vihtalahdeksikin] talossa Sonkarinsaaren kyl, Rautalammin pitjt. Syntymtalostansa kutsuttiin hnt loppupuolella ikns Vihtapaavoksi, jonka nimen itsekin muutamassa runossansa omistaa. En ole...

How to Use a Galvanic Battery in Medicine and Surgery - A Discourse Delivered Before the Hunterian Society, Third EditionFELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGY AND ELECTROLOGY; LATE HONORARY MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of George Barr McCutcheon You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...