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Cubist Art Will be Investigated (1913)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

Read by Sue Anderson

Anonymous

"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Experiments with Nettles as a Substitute for Cotton in WWI

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056

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Anonymous

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human …

Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

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George Williams Peckham

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…

Chapters 66-70

In Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

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Benvenuto Cellini

Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

07 - Chapter VII

In Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites

Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

The Common Milkweed

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067

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Harriet Louise Keeler

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madi…

The American Tent Caterpillar

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049

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J. M. Swaine

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carniv…

Preface and Introduction

In Gallipoli Diary

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John Graham Gillam

Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

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