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Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Histo…

In The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…

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Eva March Tappan

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Copernicus

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 10

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Edward S. Holden

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

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 …

An Interview with the Prime Minister of China

In Across Asia on a Bicycle

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Thomas Gaskell Allen

In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 …

Chapter 6: Galileo and the Telescope - Notions of Gravity by Horrocks, etc

In History of Astronomy

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George Forbes

An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by re…

The Ancient Mayans

In The American Egypt

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Channing Arnold

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…

The Spirit of Japan

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027

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Rabindranath Tagore

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Introduction

In The Tosa Diary

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Ki no Tsurayuki and No Tsurayuki Ki

Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…

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