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Ingersoll on ERNEST RENAN from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 11, Lec…

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Robert G. Ingersoll

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

The Taking of Cities

In The Book of Famous Sieges

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Tudor Jenks

History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in suc…

Ancestry and Early Life in Boston

In The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Version 2)

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Benjamin Franklin

In Benjamin Franklin's lifetime, he kept good record of his life and travels, and although Franklin was never a president, he still plays a …

On the Stairs

In Tales of Mean Streets

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Arthur Morrison

This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty …

A Ghost's Tale

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 040

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Mark Twain

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Revenge, fear, petri…

Fighting Spooks

In Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

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George William Foote

A collection of 51 short essays by George William Foote, who in May 1881 founded the magazine "The Freethinker", which is still pu…

VII. Personalities vs. principles

In Ingersoll on WHICH WAY, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lectur…

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Robert G. Ingersoll

Col. Ingersoll explains the conflict he sees between the natural vs. the supernatural on a variety of philosophical topics; secular vs. theo…