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A Glimpse of the Italian Army

In A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…

Chapter 1 Part 3

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre

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Alexandre Dumas

Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

The Battle of Marathon, BC 490, by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, part 2

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

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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…

Book Third, Chapters 32 to 35. Concerning the island of Scotra. Concerning the …

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa

"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

CHAPTER I.Of the Beginnings of Cities in general, and in particular of that of …

In Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli

In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

19 - Captured

In Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

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Victor Appleton

Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to us…