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Queensland Railways - Tours in the South Coast District

An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly the area now in the Gold Coast. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 9 minutes

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עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

Action & Adventure Fiction

457

יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner - עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story «Injustice» by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conquest of Palestine by the British troops during WWI. The story takes place on the...

Omri Lernau 1 hour 18 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

524

Mark Twain - Awful German Language (version 2)

This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the...

Kirsten Wever 1 hour 2 minutes

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Clarence Darrow - Industrial Conspiracies

Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles, California. The man, the subject and the occasion...

Richard Kilmer 1 hour 5 minutes

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United States Federal Bureau of Investigation - Unidentified Flying Objects

Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this series of communications has been de-classified and made public. Most names have been omitted, however much information of the sightings of UFOs in 1947 can be...

Roger Melin 1 hour 9 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Of Peace of Mind

How to maintain a tranquil mind amongst social upheaval and turmoil, addressed to Serenus. (Introduction by Jonathan Hockey)

Jonathan Hockey and 2 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Poetry

518

William Wordsworth - Cottager to Her Infant

Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the...

Chris Caron and 12 more 14 minutes

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Albert Einstein - Sidelights on Relativity

Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; and GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE, an expanded form of an address to the Prussian...

Paul Adams 1 hour 3 minutes

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Monadology

The Monadology ( La Monadologie , 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances,...

Gary Geck 52 minutes

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Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth - Living on Half a Dime a Day

How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have money left over to buy books! Tough questions! They were tough questions even...

Sue Anderson 1 hour 16 minutes

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Mark Twain - Treaty with China

«A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an early statement of Twain's opposition...

John Greenman 46 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On Interpretation

Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. On...

Geoffrey Edwards 1 hour 10 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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