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Project Hi-PsiHe ignored the door that offered "Information", passed up office after office until he came to the glass paneled door which informed him that behind it functioned the Director of FBI operations in the Los Angeles area. Lucifer Brill rubbed the knuckles of...

Berels Berta: Eine Bauerngeschichte aus dem LuxemburgischenDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1915 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und inkonsistente Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Passagen in luxemburgischer Sprache wurden dem Original entsprechend bernommen....

Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo - In a Series of Letters, Written by a Lady at Cape Francois, to Colonel Burr, Late Vice-President of the United States, Principally During the Command of General RochambeuI am fearful of having been led into...

The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation REECE and Greek mean different things to different people. To the man in the street, if he exists, they stand for something proverbially remote and obscure, as dead as Queen Anne, as...

NorwayIN preparing this volume it has been my aim to omit as few important events as possible without making the book a mere enumeration of names and dates. Above all, I have tried to be accurate. Among the works which I have used as...

Wine-Dark Seas and Tropic Skies: Reminiscences and a Romance of the South SeasMy characters are all taken from life, both the settlers and the natives. I have striven to give an account of native life, modes and codes, and to describe the general characteristics...

All But Lost: A Novel. Vol. 3 of 3Fred Bingham was now rather an important person in his way. He had a large number of works in hand; he was contractor for miles of sewers in and around London. He was building a noblemans...

A Glance at the Past and Present of the Negro: An AddressTwo events in the history of our country take a foremost place among the great deeds of the world. The signing of the Declaration of Independence is one, and the promulgation of the...

Children of the ArcticIf any one had invited AH-NI-GHI-TO to go back to the Snowland the day after her return to her Grossmammas house, she would not have listened a moment; for there was so much to tell, and do, and see, and learn...

The Englishwoman in Egypt - Letters from Cairo, Written During a Residence There in 1842, 3, & 4The desire of shortening the period of my separation from a beloved brother, was the first and strongest motive that induced me to think of accompanying him...

Le littoral de la France, vol. 1: Côtes Normandes de Dunkerque au Mont Saint-MichelNul pays, en Europe, n'est, au mme degr que la France, favoris par sa situation maritime. De la frontire belge la frontire espagnole; des Pyrnes-Orientales la frontire italienne, deux merveilleuses lignes...

A Guide for the Dissection of the Dogfish (Squalus Acanthias)The small sharks which abound along the coasts of the United States are commonly called dogfish by fishermen and others. The dogfish of inland waters belongs to an entirely different group. Two species of sharks...

Harper's Young People, August 22, 1882 - An Illustrated WeeklyEgypt is the most interesting of countries, because it is probably the oldest. We borrow from it nearly all our arts and sciences, and have only improved upon what the Egyptians taught us. Our alphabet...

Biltmore House and Gardens - Biltmore Estate, Biltmore-Asheville North CarolinaApproached from the Biltmore Lodge Gate of Biltmore Estate, along a three-mile drive of paved roads which wind their way through plantations of flowering shrubs and forests of pine, hemlock and hardwood, Biltmore House, for...

Salt ... or No Salt ...A new trend in food and nutrition is the fast-increasing use of fresh lemon juice as an all-purpose table seasoning. Fresh lemons have long been recognized as an indispensable flavoring for pies, tomato juice, tea, fish and seafood. Now...

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, LunaticsPrisons as places of detention are very ancient institutions. As soon as men had learned the way to build, in stone, as in Egypt, or with bricks, as in Mesopotamia, when kings had many-towered fortresses, and...

Hunting the HunCaptain Belton and Lieutenant Odell's book of the war will be read with deep and sustained interest by everyone who wants to understand "the real thing." For myself I confess to being thrilled by the simple, direct, conversational style of the chapters...

The Theory of Stock Exchange SpeculationOur object in writing this book is to endeavour to show to persons who may contemplate trying their hand at Stock Exchange speculation, the improbability of their hopes being realized. Much mischief and trouble would be avoided, and a...

Sink or Swim; or, Harry Raymond's ResolveSink or Swim is the second volume of the Luck and Pluck Series, and, like its predecessor, is designed to illustrate the truth that a manly spirit is better than the gifts of fortune. It does not fall...

The ScamperersThe Earthman, Wellesley, came to Ophir in the season of aphelion, when the binary suns of that remote planet were cold serpent's eyes, dimly seen above the chill mists that shrouded its fern forests and craggy, young mountains, its silent oceans and magnificent...