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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…

Murder in General

In The Technique of the Mystery Story

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Carolyn Wells

For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…

Music-Loving Felines

In Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 2, February 1902

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Various

"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes…

Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100

In The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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Horatio W. Dresser

This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. D…

Hanako by Mori Ōgai

In Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers

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Ōgai Mori

Paulownia is a collection of seven stories by three Japanese authors from the late 19th and early 20th century. Mori Ōgai was an army surgeo…

Chapter II. The Northeast Passage. Part I

In The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators

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Hendrik Van Loon

This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The…

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