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Katherine Mansfield's life was short but her poetry and story deep. All those who saw her say she was beautiful woman. She seems very slender, with a round face, large deep eyes. Like a child - like...

Charles Martel is generally considered as the Frankish Military Leader who defeated the Moslem army and stopped the great movement of Arab conquest in Europe. His victory during the battle of Tours...

The character of the dress of a person stands so near to the character of the person who is the wearer of it that it is difficult to touch on one without introducing the other. In a word, the dress...

Clovis came to rule over a larger country than any Gaulish chief had ever done and it was a country which was worth governing. He called himself King of the Franks, but I think you had better emember...

Victor Hugo was a great poet, dramatist and romance-writer. The precocious eloquence and ardor of his early works made him famous before his time. That Victor Hugo was one of the greatest poets and...

For a long period of years, a child who was born deaf or blind has been called a defective. The belief that the deaf and blind could not be educated was so universal that within the last century they...

For centuries the blind were regarded as objects of pity and as unfortunate beings. No interest had been manifested in the education of the blind. This book presents how evolved the situation of the...

What are the causes and effects of fear among human and all beings capable of feeling it? What are the signs of fear and the physical phenomena that accompany it? Fear acts in two ways. At times it...

Galileo Galilei, known as the father of Science, is a famous astronomer, philosopher and mathematician who played an important role in the scientific revolution. He was accused of blasphemy and...

This book deals with the prehistoric and historic arts in America, with several illustrations. In America, eminent archaeologists and enthusiastic collectors have eagerly studied all that relates to...

"There are about forty species of grapes in the world, more than half of which are found in North America. A statement of the difference between European and American grapes shows why American...

"The term "bank" was used in the American colonies from the very beginning of the settlement, in the sense of a pile or heap. The first bills of credit, as they were called by a seventeenth century...

This book presents the history of Haiti and its revolution. Haiti is an island in the West Indies. The general history of the island begins with its discovery by Christopher Columbus; and the present...

The Natchez are a tribe of American Indians who lived in the area of the present town of Natchez in Mississippi. The Natchez were people inhabiting that part of America called Florida by the first...

What is life? This question gives a new interest to every department of science that relates to life in any form, and the history of life offers a most suggestive field for research. The paleontology...

How to help the unemployed? This subject developed by Henry George is more relevant to our time when unemployment becomes a major problem. Henry George, famous for his book titled Progress and...

Jeanne d'Arc (Joan the Arc) is a national heroine of France who asserted that she had visions from God which instructed her to recover her homeland France from English domination. She led the French...

Madagascar, that some called the Great Britain of Africa, is one of the largest islands in the world. It is said to have been discovered by Europeans in the year 1506. By the Portuguese it was called...

"A man's power of increasing happiness depends both directly and indirectly on his fitness for the occupations of his life." The object of these papers is to show what sort of moral law is likely to...

This book presents the general history of Napoleon Bonaparte the great Emperor of France: his life, his expeditions and addresses. "Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Napoleon...

"It has been by imitating nature's methods and by augmentation of the natural forces of defense, that good has been achieved..." Common observations early indicated that individuals of all animal...

Nietzsche, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, and Tolstoy, the four great authors discussed in this book stand, respectively, for the determining strains in a great upsetting movement, and that in the...

"Passions are penchants, inclinations, desires and aversions carried to a certain degree of intensity, combined with an indistinct sensation of pleasure or pain, occasioned or accompanied by some...

In all places of the civilized world, and in all classes, the struggle for existence is now more keen than ever it has been during the history. Everywhere men, and women, and children are living at a...

What is the nature of belief? What are the conditions under which it arises? and What are the causes for its appearance? The purpose of this book is to answer these questions and to investigate the...

It is the purpose of this paper to treat of the movements of american arborigenes and their migrations, and to show how it affected Minnesota. Before its explorations by white men, the Minnesota was...

Sea-Sickness symptoms are experienced by many persons when they are subjected to the pitching and rolling motion of a vessel at sea. Plutarch was, perhaps, the first theorist on the subject. He...

Who were the Franks? Anyone who wants to know the history of European nations, must read the history of the Franks. Beyond the Roman Empire, the foundation of medieval Europe also depends on the...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, considered as one of the greatest thinkers of the 19th century. This book treating about the Ice Age and its work, is one of his contributions to...

Among the factors which determine the birth and development of the basic elements of a civilization, one of the most important - perhaps the most important because it represents the synthesis of all...