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Letter XXXVII part 2

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…

2-05-The right of Life and Death

In The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

Chapter 37: Who's Afraid! (Stage Fright)

In The Art of Stage Dancing

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Ned Wayburn


Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …

National Dress

In Third Class in Indian Railways

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Mohandas K Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi


Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement…

The Wright Brother's Aeroplane

In The Early History of the Airplane

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Orville and Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright


The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…

The So-Called Jeannette Relics

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896

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William Healey Dall and National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles, along with a few miscellaneo…

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 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 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…

Restoration of Paleolithic Man

In Multilingual 1910 Collection

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Richard Swann Lull


This is a compilation of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction first published in the year 1910, from a personal choice by the readers. Submissio…

kasteel dat er niet was, Wonderlijke historiën - Het

In Korte Verhalen van Louis Couperus

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Louis Couperus


Louis Couperus schreef naast zijn bekende boeken ook een aantal korte verhalen voor diverse kranten en tijdschriften In deze collectie zijn …

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