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Excerpt: "As far back as I can remember the sea had a strange fascination for me, and if, as is the custom with old people to ask a boy, however small, what he is going to be when he is a man, I invariably answered "a sailor of course." At school the lessons I liked best were geography, and the only books that interested me were those that told of travel in foreign lands. Born in Liverpool, that city by the sea, and living, for the first fourteen...
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Snow on the Headlight: A Story of the Burlington Strike is a novel written by Cyrus Townsend Brady under the pseudonym Cyrus Warman. Published in 1899, the novel is a fictionalized account of the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888, a significant event in U.S. labor history.
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Excerpt: "Christopher Columbus was born at more places and to a greater extent than any other eminent man known to history. He was born at frequent intervals from 1436 to 1446, and at Cogoletto, Genoa, Finale, Oneglia, Savona, Padrello, and Boggiasco. Learned historians have conclusively shown that he was born at each one of the places, and each historian has had him born at a different date from that fixed upon by a rival historian. To doubt their...
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Excerpt: "On the 26th day of September, 1846, the 7th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, commanded by Colonel J. D. Stevenson, sailed from the harbour of New York under orders from the Secretary of War, to proceed to Upper California. The objects and operations of the expedition, the fitting out of which created some sensation at the time, are now too well understood and appreciated to require explanation. This regiment, in which I had the honour...
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Excerpt: "For that matter the whole west coast of Africa is called by the natives The White Man's Grave; and everywhere the fever stalks along the beach like a grim sentinel warning the stranger to stay away and ready to beat him into delirium and death if he lands. But the name, The White Man's Grave, is especially attached to several of the oldest of the coast settlements. Notable among these is Gaboon, in the French Congo, almost exactly at the...
27) Electricity
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Excerpt: "Although the science of electricity is of comparatively recent date, electricity itself has existed from the beginning of the world. There can be no doubt that man's introduction to electricity was brought about through the medium of the thunderstorm, and from very early times come down to us records of the terror inspired by thunder and lightning, and of the ways in which the ancients tried to account for the phenomena. Even to-day, although...
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Excerpt: "The trend of everything in the business world to-day is specialization. To my knowledge, there has never been a book written on the subject of posting. I believed there was room for one-that such a book would be welcome to advertisers, and that such a popular form of publicity as posting should have representation in advertising libraries. That is the only possible excuse I have for offering this volume to the advertising world. There are...
30) Life in Mexico
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Life in Mexico is a travel narrative written by Frances Erskine Inglis, who used the pen name Madame Calderón de la Barca. Originally published in 1843, the book offers a vivid and insightful portrayal of Mexico during the mid-19th century. Madame Calderón de la Barca, the Scottish-born wife of a Spanish diplomat, provides observations on Mexican society, culture, and politics.
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Excerpt: "Some of the flowers described are found along every country highway. It is interesting to note that these wayside flowers may usually be classed among the foreign population. They have been brought to us from Europe in ballast and in loads of grain, and invariably follow in the wake of civilization. Many of our most beautiful native flowers have been crowded out of the hospitable roadside by these aggressive, irresistible, and mischievous...
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The Retreat of the Ten Thousand refers to the historical event documented in Xenophon's "Anabasis." The Anabasis is an ancient Greek work that recounts the journey of a Greek mercenary army, led by Cyrus the Younger, into the Persian Empire and their subsequent harrowing retreat.
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Edward Hutton's "Attila and the Huns" is a historical work that examines the life and impact of Attila the Hun and his nomadic warrior people, the Huns. Published in 1922, the book explores the history and significance of the Hunnic Empire during the 5th century.
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Excerpt: "On the last morning of Queen Anne's life, a man, deep in thought, was slowly crossing Smithfield. The eyes of a clergyman passing in a carriage were bent upon him. The carriage stopped, the wayfarer looked up, and the two men knew each other. The one on foot was the dissenting preacher, whom Queen Anne used to call 'bold Bradbury.' The other was Bishop Burnet. 'On what were you so deeply thinking?' asked the bishop. 'On the men who died...
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Excerpt: "To treat of the practice of fiction is to deal with the newest, most fluid and least formulated of the arts. The exploration of origins is always fascinating; but the attempt to relate the modern novel to the tale of Joseph and his Brethren is of purely historic interest. Modern fiction really began when the "action" of the novel was transferred from the street to the soul; and this step was probably first taken when Madame de La Fayette,...
36) Kleopatra
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Auszug: "Wer jene Park-Vorstadt durchwandert, deren Paläste mitten in die Waldstille des alten Berliner Tiergartens alle Schätze der Kunst und des Reichtums verpflanzt haben, bemerkt noch hie und da in der Reihe der glänzenden Villen neuesten Datums eines jener älteren Landhäuser bescheideneren Stils, die nicht auf den Prunk gebaut, meist von der Straße etwas zurückgezogen, unter dem Schutz alter Ahorn- und Akazienbäume liegen und es verschmähen,...
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Excerpt: "Through the neglect of nature study, the wits of the country child lose just the sharpening they most need, to say nothing of a stimulus and delight which can ill be spared by one whose mental life is apt to be monotonous. The wits of the city child may secure in other ways the sharpening so essential to success in life; yet the training afforded by a logical study of plants, and the pleasure which such a study, rightly directed, is sure...
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Excerpt: "It cannot be denied that an improved system of practical domestic cookery, and a better knowledge of its first principles, are still much needed in this country; where, from ignorance, or from mismanagement in their preparation, the daily waste of excellent provisions almost exceeds belief. This waste is in itself a very serious evil where so large a portion of the community often procure-as they do in England-with painful difficulty, and...
39) Utopia
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Utopia, („Ein wahrhaft goldenes Büchlein, nicht minder heilsam als unterhaltsam, Von der besten Verfassung des Staates und von der neuen Insel Utopia") – ist ein von Thomas Morus (1478–1535) in lateinischer Sprache verfasster philosophischer Dialog, der Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts zunächst in Belgien erschien. Der Londoner Bürger und Undersheriff, spätere Speaker und Lordkanzler stellt darin die Schilderung einer fernen idealen Gesellschaft...
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Excerpt: "A one-room log cabin, with an indolently smoking chimney, squatted in sullen destitution a hundred yards away. Before the door a ramshackle wagon stood waiting for nothing with its load of snow. Down yonder in the brushy draw an all-but-roofless shed stared listlessly upon the dull February sky. With a man-denying look, the empty reservation landscape round about lay hushed and bluing in the cold. Raising the flap of the tepee, with its...