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Current Superstitions

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Fanny Dickerson Bergen


No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

Christmas and Christmas Lore

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Thomas G. Crippen


For above forty years I have been a diligent collector of history, tradition, legend, custom, or folklore, whether from familiar or unfamili…

Shadowings

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Lafcadio Hearn


This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on various Japanese subjects. The first part "Stories From Strange Books…

My Chinese Marriage

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Mae Franking


Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…

Essays on Work and Culture

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Hamilton Wright Mabie


The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For examp…

A Japanese Boy

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Shigemi Shiukichi


The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments,…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

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Arthur L. Hayward


This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …

They Who Knock at Our Gates

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Mary Antin


In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had ar…

Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by a Member of t…

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Anonymous


The title of this work sufficiently indicates the nature of its contents. The Usages of Good Society relate not only to good manners and to …

The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States

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Winfield Hazlitt Collins


This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…

With the Empress Dowager of China

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Katharine Carl


Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…

Revolted Woman

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Charles George Harper


One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He pai…

California Sketches New And Old

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Oscar Penn Fitzgerald


Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps,…

Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

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Albert Bigelow Paine


This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …

Woman and War

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Olive Schreiner


Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…

The Measurement of Intelligence

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Lewis Terman


An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the solois…

Oracles of Nostradamus

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Charles A. Ward


Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of …

Anno 2070: een blik in de toekomst

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Pieter Harting


Een schrijver die vrij hardhandig met de nukken en grillen van de toekomst kennis maakte, was de negentiende-eeuwse professor Pieter Harting…

The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2

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James Frazer


The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …

Americans All, Immigrants All

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U. S. Department Of The Interior Office Of Education


The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …

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