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The Lord Of the Golden Water Gourds

In The Story of Japan

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Robert van Bergen and Robert Van Bergen


Robert van Bergen was one of the first Americans to enter Japan after the country opened its borders to foreign visitors following centuries…

Section 16

In The Tower Menagerie

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Edward Turner Bennett


Such is a brief outline of the history up to the present period of the establishment known as the Tower Menagerie. Of the animals contained …

Genoese Surrender to the Venetians, AD 1380 by Henry Hallam

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

The Terrible Old Man

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 051

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H. P. Lovecraft


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Augustus Caesar

In Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 3

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Charles F. Horne


A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…

A Talk on Big Guns

In Marvels of Modern Science

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Paul Severing


The purpose of this little book is to give a general idea of a few of the great achievements of our time. For instance, the flying machine i…

On an Empty House

In On Everything

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Hilaire Belloc


Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs…

Chapter 4 part 2

In Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6

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Edward Lawton Moss


"THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered t…

His Debut in Wittenberg, and at the Leipzig Disputation

In The Life of Philip Melanchthon

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Karl Friedrich Ledderhose


Philip Melanchthon (1497 – 1560) is best known as the theologian of the Protestant Reformation, systematizing and defending much of Martin …

April 2 St. Francis of Paula

In Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 2 (April-June)

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John Gilmary Shea


Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

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