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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Vol 7: Great Women

Book Seven of the series focuses on the women of history and includes George Eliot, Joan of Arc and Madame Recamier. — Summary by KHand

KHand 7 hours 51 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Story of Napoleon

This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately emperor of over half of Europe. This book focuses on his victorious military...

Patrick Saville 2 hours 5 minutes

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E. A. Wallis Budge - Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the soul on its journey to Duat, or Afterlife.

Patrick Saville and 1 more 16 hours 29 minutes

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Agnes C. Laut - Canada: The Empire of the North

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned.... All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the...

Lynda Marie Neilson 18 hours 18 minutes

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History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, September 1909

«The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geography and Economics. It aims to bring to the teacher of these topics the latest...

Sarah Jennings and 6 more 2 hours 31 minutes

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War & Military

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E. Charles Vivian - British Army From Within

This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales

David Wales 3 hours 53 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian

These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although particularly the older tales have become legendary. ( DrPGould)

Kalynda and 7 more 9 hours 6 minutes Historical Tales

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Short Stories

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Joseph Dunn - Glories of Ireland

A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced to the conclusion that the performances of the Irish race in many fields of...

April6090 and 13 more 16 hours 1 minute

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Auguste Comte - General View of Positivism

Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “discovered the principal laws of Sociology." Comte says Reason has become...

LizMorey and 6 more 14 hours 39 minutes

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)

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Olive Gilbert - Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)

Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the...

Holly Jenson 3 hours 58 minutes

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 4

The fourth and final volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume discusses how the Inquisition dealt with mysticism, solicitation of illicit relationships, bigamy, theological propositions,...

Larry Wilson and 14 more 25 hours 46 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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