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In By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

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Lavinia Honeyman Porter

Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Artists Look at Roads

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093

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Richard F. Weingroff

"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…

A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860

In Specimen Days

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Walt Whitman

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Native Bees

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053

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Beatriz Moisset

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…

20 - Book 8, Chapters 13-22: Dragons; serpents of remarkable size; the animals …

In The Natural History Volume 2

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Byron - A Dog of Scotland

In Dog Heroes of Many Lands

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Sarah Noble Ives

Dogs are great, everyone knows that. And they can be heroes, too! This book brings together eleven dogs from around the world who have prove…

Cubist Art Will be Investigated (1913)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

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Anonymous

"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Experiments with Nettles as a Substitute for Cotton in WWI

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056

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Anonymous

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human …

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