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Hieroglyphics And Paintings

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…

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 5: The Discovery of the True Solar System - Tycho Brahe - Kepler

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…

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade (1788)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092

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John Newton

Calling men the "Bawling Brotherhood," Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenogra…

Preface

In Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…

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Hans Gross

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

Discovery of Gravitation, AD 1666, by Sir David Brewster

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12

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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 Earth's Shape

In The Romance of Modern Geology

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Edwin Sharpe Grew

From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the bui…

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