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The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass


Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

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…

Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin

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Frank Tilton


The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…

Ch 7: Catastrophe and Social Surplus

In Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax D…

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Samuel Henry Prince


The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb."The following pages [are] the result of an o…

Introduction

In The Art of Music - Volume 02: Classicism and Romanticism

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The National Society of Music and The National Society Of Music


Volume 2 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the Classical and …

Intro

In Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico

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Julian Corbett and John M. Corbett


This U.S. National Park Service historical handbook from 1962 introduces the reader to the history, geography, and archaeology of the Aztec …

Christmas in the Heart - Read by VV

In Christmas in the Heart

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Christmas in the Heart by Paul Laurence Dunbar.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for De…

Loving v. Virginia

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098

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United States Supreme Court


"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…

Epílogo

In La gente cursi: novela de costumbres ridículas

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Ramón Ortega Y Frías


Novela satírica sobre la sociedad española en el siglo XIX, en particular la clase media que aspiraba a nobleza, pero a quiene…

Library Statistics

In Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries

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Arthur Elmore Bostwick


This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…

Chapter 2, Part 1, Solar Myths and Christian Festivals

In Pagan & Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning

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Edward Carpenter


In this work from 1921, Carpenter analyzes the origin of Christian beliefs, arguing that they are derived from pre-Christian myths and relig…

Federal Register, Vol. 28 Numbers 137-139

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 005

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Various


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…

Woman: The Serf

In Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes

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Edward Carpenter


"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among …