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In Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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Isabella L. Bird


Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…

Diplomacy

In Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

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Lafcadio Hearn


Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Koko…

Part I, Chapter IX

In Dead Souls

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, translated by D. J. Hogarth and Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

Chapter 28

In The Humbugs of the World

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P. T. Barnum


P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

Preface and Hippocrates

In Fathers of Biology

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Charles McRae and Charles Mcrae


An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…

The Sentence of the Inquisition on Galileo

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014

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Cardinals of the Inquisition


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independentl…

The Flowers

In Short Poetry Collection 082

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Aldous Huxley


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009.

The Rosetta Stone (Excerpt)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 096

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E. A. Wallis Budge


"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President R…

Sympathetic inks for secret correspondence

In A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments

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Unknown


This collection of projects and experiments was submitted by Rufus Tuttle, following an Act of Congress promoting education and learning. Th…

Meteorology and the State (1920)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 099

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Anonymous


"Instead of letting ourselves, at the thought of mealtime, fall into a state of chronic mental flutter that incapacitates us for any se…

HOROLOGY AND INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION.

In Inventions in the Century

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William Henry Doolittle


The author was an Expert and Patent Solicitor, Ex-Examiner in the Patent Office and AssistantCommissioner of Patents at Washington, Writer o…

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…

THE FALSE HEREDITARY PRINCE OF BADEN

In Claimants to Royalty

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John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

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