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The Race Of The Swift

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Edwin Carlile Litsey


This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales

Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona

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Charles F. Lummis


This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…

The Romance Of The Commonplace

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Frank Gelett Burgess


Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …

Strange Stories Of The Civil War

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Various


Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…

A Cathedral Singer

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James Lane Allen


New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…

An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays

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Sir William Osler


Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…

Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

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Herbert Francis Peyser


How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…

Rada; A Belgian Christmas Eve

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Alfred Noyes


This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), publishe…

The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864

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Richard M. Mcmurry


“…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confedera…

South-Sea Idyls

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873)…

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 2

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James Cook


Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was a…

Against Celsus Book 6

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Origen Of Alexandria


Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

Against Celsus Book 5

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Origen Of Alexandria


Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…

The Diatessaron: A Harmony of the Four Gospels

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Tatian


The Diatessaron is such an impersonal work that we do not need to know very much about its compiler. It will suffice here to say that he tel…

Combat Lessons Number 1: Rank And File In Combat: What They're Doing, How They …

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United States Army War College


This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

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James Cook


Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy

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James Moores Ball


Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…

Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

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Frederick Herman Tilberg


The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…

Henry James At Work

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Theodora Bosanquet


Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…

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