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Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer


A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Dirge for Two Veterans read by Esther

In Dirge for Two Veterans

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Walt Whitman


In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Vetera…

Chapter 11

In The Alaskan

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James Oliver Curwood


A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode.

Introduction and Dedications

In Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke

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Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma and Antonio Colmenero De Ledesma


The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. "By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, e…

1 - Part One

In History of Farming in Ontario

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C.C. James and C. C. James


This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…

CH.3 STORAGE OF POWER

In Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast

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George Sutherland


This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, pre…

The Bluejay

In The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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Mark Twain


The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

01 - The Young Mohawk

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle …

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Louis Aubrey Wood


'Thayendanegea!' The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name of the Mohawks meaning two sticks of wood bound toget…

THE HUNTER DECLINES HIS QUARRY

In The Daffodil Mystery

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Edgar Wallace


Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 17…

08 - Chapter VIII

In Topsy-Turvy

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Jules Verne


Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889) . This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890…

Chapter 2

In The Madman and The Pirate

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R.M. Ballantyne and R. M. Ballantyne


R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he …

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