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Essays & Short Works

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Lafcadio Hearn - Exotics and Retrospectives

Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just...

William Gavula and 8 more 5 hours 32 minutes

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General

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Unknown - Ontario Public School Geography

This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politically incorrect in some of its descriptions by modern day standards. (Summary...

David Lawrence and 16 more 12 hours 58 minutes

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Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 1

Music

440

Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 1

This collection was a joint effort by the chaplains of the US Army and the Navy to meet the needs of divine services conducted in the Army and Navy, and for, in the compilers' words, «the upbuilding up patriotic...

Carol Box and 8 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4

Earth Sciences

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Irrigation in California Round about Asheville A Trip to Panama and Darien Across Nicaragua with Transit and Machéte...

Rapunzelina and 3 more 2 hours 56 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Education

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John S. Hart - In the School Room

In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class is not necessarily teaching. I have known many teachers who were brimful of...

Joseph Abell and 13 more 8 hours 11 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 5

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 5

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Availle and 17 more 18 hours 43 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Biography & Autobiography

467

William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 1

”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. «Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and...

MaryAnn and 8 more 6 hours 44 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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General Fiction

478

J. S. Fletcher - Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a beautiful woman stops his car to ask for directions to Scotland. Odd time to...

MaryAnn 8 hours 50 minutes

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Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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United States House of Representatives - Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina

In September 2005, the House of Representatives created the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. The Committee was charged with conducting «a full and...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 20 hours 59 minutes United States Government Reports

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Biography & Autobiography

456

Grant M. Overton - Women Who Make Our Novels

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary...

MaryAnn and 13 more 10 hours 20 minutes

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First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians

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G. Campbell Morgan - First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians

G. Campbell Morgan was one of the leading evangelical preachers of his day. He began preaching at age 13 and by age 26 was teaching at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to England in 1904 to...

MaryAnn 4 hours 33 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Pliny the Elder - Natural History Volume 4

Naturalis Historia (Latin for «Natural History») is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and...

Arnie Horton and 11 more 12 hours 1 minute The Natural History by Pliny

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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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