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Introduction
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Hilaire Belloc
In The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers
This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Tho…
Part 4
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Francis Godwin
In The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales to the World in the Moon
Among the earliest sci-fi books known in English, this account of a trip to the moon was originally published in 1638. The version recorded …
Chapters V and VI
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Frank Tilton
In Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin
The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…
Part I, The Exile, V-VI
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W. E. B. Du Bois
In Dark Princess
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…
Catalogs to Sleep By
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Various
Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…
Chapter XXXV Epilogue
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Edward Wright Byrn
In The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
The 1800s saw a meteoric rise in modern technology in many areas. The century set the stage for modern life with developments such as the el…
Federal Register, Vol. 28 Numbers 137-139 (7243-7339)
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United States Government
In Insomnia Collection Vol. 005
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…
Introduction
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The National Society of Music and The National Society Of Music
In The Art of Music - Volume 02: Classicism and Romanticism
Volume 2 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the Classical and …
Pizenous Windies
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Mody Coggin Boatright
In Tall Tales from Texas
Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …
The Canvas-Back Duck
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Various
In Birds, Vol. II, No 1, July 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Intro
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Julian Corbett and John M. Corbett
In Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
This U.S. National Park Service historical handbook from 1962 introduces the reader to the history, geography, and archaeology of the Aztec …
Babiola
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Laura Valentine
In The Old Old Fairy Tales
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may als…
Introduction
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Andrew Forrester
In The Female Detective
This 1864 collection of stories is one of the first books featuring a female detective character. Andrew Forrester (pseudonym of James Reddi…
Introduction
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Guy B. H. Logan
In Dramas of the Dock: True Stories of Crime
Guy Logan is a lesser known but prolific British true crime writer of the early 20th century. In this 1928 compilation, he relates the stori…
Library Circulation at Long Range
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Arthur Elmore Bostwick
In Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries
This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…
Chapter XI: Animals, Insects, and Fish
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Joseph B. Seabury
In Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…
Chapter XXXVII: Veni, Vidi, Vici
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Anthony Trollope
In The Kellys and the O'Kellys
This is the second of Trollope's four Irish novels: A complicated, funny and touching story about family, neighbors and tenants, debt, jeal…
The Same Subject Continued
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Leonhard Euler
In Letters on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 (Letters to a German Princess)
The Letters of Euler to a German Princess have acquired over all Europe a celebrity to which the reputation of the Author, the choice and im…
Chapter XVIII
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Edmund Selous
In The Romance of the Animal World
A description of the animal world, from the smallest protozoa all the way to man eating tigers!