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The Modern Orchestra

In How to Listen to Music

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Henry Edward Krehbiel


This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers…

Marie Antoinette

In Women of History

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Anonymous


An intriguing look at well known women in history from BC 500 to the mid 1800's. Each chapter is a brief overview of one woman's life. An in…

The Utilization of the Vacant Public Lands

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 02. February 1897

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Crater Lake, Oregon, by J…

Rivers and Valleys by Nathaniel S. Shaler (1841-1906)

In Little Masterpieces of Science - The Skies and The Earth

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George Iles


The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…

The Memory of the Witness, Part 1

In On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime

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Hugo Münsterberg


Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…

Fiammetta Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

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Anonymous


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…

Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus

In Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

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Nicolaus Copernicus and Variousandcharles William Eliot


Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…

An Account of the System of the World (described in Mr Newton's Mathematical Pr…

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

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Isaac Newton


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore,…

The Marsh Hawk

In Bird Stories from Burroughs

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John Burroughs


What a better way to learn about birds than to read this delightful collection of interesting bird stories! John Burroughs was a nature essa…

The Arrival at Babylon by Georg Moritz Ebers

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13

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Various


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 Problem of Gravitation

In The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect

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Herbert Wildon Carr


The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classica…

Chapter XXIII - An Electric Postal System

In The Romance of Modern Mechanism

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Archibald Williams


In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very d…

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