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Book III, Part 3, Verrazzano’s Letter to the King

In A Book of American Explorers

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…

Dill

In Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)

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Maurice Grenville Kains

Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…

Chapter I Olive and Tony at Home

In The World that Never Was

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Arthur St. John Adcock

Olive, age seven and a half, and her brother Tony, who is one year younger, live in London. Because their mother has been sent away ill, the…

Preface

In Workhouse Characters

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Margaret Nevinson and Margaret Nevinson

In 1904, Margaret Nevinson, a respectable lady and active suffragette, joined the board of guardians in Hampstead Heath. The guardians had r…

The State of Nevada - Boundaries and Areas

In A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines

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Dan Dequille

This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…

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