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Memories of Old Montana

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Con Price

Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

Perception

In The Mind And Its Education

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George Herbert Betts

"We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material thing…

John Templeton, Kyneton

In Letters from Victorian Pioneers

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Various

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Jos…

Sir Wilfrid Laurier - On the Death of Queen Victoria

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III

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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

In Time Telling Through the Ages

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Harry Chase Brearley

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock throug…

Abraham Lincoln, December 3, 1861

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1861 - 1868)

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Abraham Lincoln

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Preface

In Fifty Years Ago

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Walter Besant

Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a prolific novelist and historian. He wrote Fifty Years Ago to present a picture of life, manners, and soc…