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Chapter 18 - Bank Credits vs Government Currency

In U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan."

Read by Melanie D. Young

Alfred Owen Crozier

In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…

The Philosophy of the Radiometer and its Cosmical Revelations

In Science in Short Chapters

Read by Melanie D. Young

W. Mattieu Williams

This is a collection of articles written by W. Mattieu Williams on different subjects, that in his opinion "are likely to be interestin…

Sound and Light

In The Ocean of Air - Meteorology for Beginners

Read by Melanie D. Young

Agnes Giberne

This is an immensely readable book explaining anything to do with air - the atmosphere, wind and clouds, and life. This 1896 explanation has…

The Infamous Volstead Act Part 1

In The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

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Charles Hanson Towne

Subtitle: "The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States" From Chapter 1: &…

Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 2, Part 1

In Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments

Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

Hibernation of the Canals

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…

The Big Southwest Strike

In Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

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Thomas Furlong

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career …

Zoology - Insect Social Communities, Part 1

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany writ…