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The World's Best Orations

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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…

The Poisoned Loving-Cup

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Charles Grant Miller



"ANGLO-AMERICAN accord is splendid sentiment. America ever rises gladly to this toast. But we must drink from our own crystal chalice o…

Stories of South Pole Adventure

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Frank Mundell



The famous search for the North-West Passage led many daring pioneers to penetrate into the unknown and to brave the dread perils of the Arc…

Adventures In Research




The story of the first regularly scheduled radio broadcast in history, in 1920, when Pittsburgh's KDKA broadcast the presidential election c…

Mémoires d’outre-tombe

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François-René de Chateaubriand



Livre 13 : « Le heurt que le Génie du Christianisme donna aux esprits, fit sortir le dix-huitième siècl…

Epochs of American History

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Albert Bushnell Hart



The second volume follows the principles of growing social and political ideals in the transition from colony to independent nation.

The Song of the Indian Wars

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John Neihardt



The Song of the Indian Wars is part of Neihardt's Cycle of the West, a series of 5 epic poems relating the appropriation of the West in the …

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