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In Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

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Alexander Berkman

In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Cl…

Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, I - Irish, Part I

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08

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William Sharp

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

THE SYREN’S ARTS AND CHARMS

In The Mysteries of London Vol. IV

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George W. M. Reynolds

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. I…

How We Became Home Rulers by James Bryce, M.P., pt 3

In Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question

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James Bryce

The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…

Book 24, Chapters 1-21: The antipathiers and sympathies among trees and plants;…

In The Natural History Volume 5

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Foundation of Constantinople, AD 330 by Edward Gibbon

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03

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Charles F. Horne

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…