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Poul William Anderson


Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen …

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4

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Charles F. Horne


A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history. Volume 4: John Adams, Louis A…

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (Version 2)

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer


The first scholarly biography on the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. Volume 1 - Summary by Realisticspeakers

Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribu…

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Various


Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin.In the…

The Symphony Since Beethoven

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Felix Weingartner and Felix Weingartner


This 1904 book by composer, conductor and pianist Felix Weingartner examines the development of the symphony as a musical form since one of …

Why We Love Music

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Carl Emil Seashore


Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

Some of the Conditions and Possibilities of Agriculture in Alaska

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 04. April 1898

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, April 1898, the Klondike Number.It includes the following articles:The Nor…

Mahayanist Scriptures

In Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2

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Charles Eliot


Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat posted to Asia and his great work was inter…

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In Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commissio…

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National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders


The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst ca…

Parts 9 and 10

In Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lect…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

Behavior of the Polar Caps

In Mars and Its Canals

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Percival Lowell


In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…

Chapter 9 - Part 1

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

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Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Chapter V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE, Introduction Part 1

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

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Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…