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The Girls' Book of Famous Queens

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Lydia Hoyt Farmer

In the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have …

Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 4

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Anna Maria Porter

Now living peacefully with his young family as an anonymous exile, Don Sebastian has just received word that the queen of England will back …

Bound for the Arctic

In The Young Ice Whalers

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Winthrop Packard

Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…

Ports of the Far East

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 11

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.

The Court of Love (no longer believed to have been written by Chaucer)

In The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…

The Jubilee of the Constitution - John Quincy Adams

In The World's Best Orations, Volume 1

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Various

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…

CHAPTER XX. THE ARRAIGNMENT Part 2

In The Inside of the Cup

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Winston Churchill

John Hodder, stepping into the large shoes of his predecessor, is the new rector at St. John's, a church in a fashionable section of town th…