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  • Vampyre (and the other Tales of Macabre)

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    Series series Great Books
    The collection of Victorian Vampire Stories is an anthology of works created in an era when the vampire myth began to actively penetrate literature and popular culture. These stories, written in the 19th century, reflect the fears and fantasies of Victorian society, exploring themes of death, immortality, sexuality and morality through the prism of Gothic literature. The collection includes such ... Read more

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  • General History of Alaska

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    Alaska is the largest state of the United States of America; occupying the extreme northwestern part of North America and the adjacent islands. In the dialect of the natives first encountered by the Russian explorers, the peninsula was called Al-áy-es-ka, the name having become changed through Alaksa and Alashka to its present form, from which last is derived the general territorial designation ... Read more

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  • History of Universities

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    This book deals with the history of the universities.Although the name university is sometimes given to some celebrated schools in Alexandria and Athens, it is generally held that the universities first arose in the Middle Ages. For those that were chartered during the thirteenth century, dates and documents can be accurately given; but the beginnings of the earliest are obscure, hence the legends ... Read more

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  • Cervantes

    the Shakespeare of Spain

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    This book deals with the history of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language.“Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain, led a life of the most romantic and adventurous kind. In fact, no novelist has ever invented a story as fascinating and varied as the bare facts of his most extraordinary career. He was a soldier, a dramatist, a patriot, a slave; ... Read more

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  • History of Centenarians and Lessons from their Habits

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    This book deals with the history of Centenarians and Lessons from their Habits."... as has been well said, "the harmonious development of the many-sided aspects of man is conducive to health and the prolongation of life," and that there need be no fear of entering heartily and actively, and with full interest and energy, into the assigned work of life, physical or mental. The body is made, not for ... Read more

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  • The Incas : Story of their Astronomy and Civilization

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    The Incas Civilization flourished in 15th century A.D. until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1530s. Their empire extended across western South America. It’s described as the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that period...“The proofs that the Incas had a real system of astronomy are scattered, partly in what remains of the monuments that were consecrated ... Read more

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  • The Agatha Christie

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    «The Agatha Christie», by Collection. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: The Mysterious Affair at Styles ; The Secret Adversary ; The Young Adventurers, Ltd ; Mr. Whittington's Offer ; A Set Back. ... Read more

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  • Why Are We Right or Left Handed?

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    Based on the studies of great authors, this book deals with the origin of right or left handedness."The question "why are we right or left handed?" has exercised the speculative ingenuity of many men. It has come to the front anew in recent years in view of the advances made in the general physiology of the nervous system; and certainly we are now in a better position to set the problem ... Read more

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  • The Maya : Civilization, Customs and Superstitions

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    This book deals with the story of the Maya : their Civilization, Customs and Legends.The ancient Maya emerged probably during the first or second century of the Christian Era. In general it may be said that the Maya culture occupied the peninsula of Yucatan, portions of the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, Guatemala, and the northern part of Honduras. That branch of the Mayas who called ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Marathon

    History of a Decisive Struggle

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    Marathon was a plain on the North-East coast of Attica (or Attic Peninsula), divided from the plain of Athens by the range of Pentelicus. It contained four villages: Marathon, Probalinthos, Tricorythos and Oenoe, which originally formed an independent tetrapolis and in historical times still upheld peculiar rites and legendary associations, chiefly connected with Heracles and Theseus. In the 6th ... Read more

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  • Hannibal

    History of a Great Military Tactician and Statesman

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    Hannibal was a Famous Carthaginian General Officer and Statesman. His influence over men is perhaps his most wonderful trait. As a distinguishing mark, we may well call him The Father of Strategy.“Son of Hamilcar Barcas, Hannibal was born in 247 B. C. At this period, Rome and Carthage were rival powers and both seated upon the borders of the Mediterranean Sea. Rome had been in existence about five ... Read more

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  • Buried Treasure and Lost Mines in the Legends of Texas

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    However many legends of other kindsthere may be, the buried treasure or lost mine legend is the typical legend ofTexas…The people who tell these legendsrepresent many standards and strata of life, but the ultimate source of theirlegendary gold and their tales is common: Mexican or Spanish.The nativeTexan frequently makes no distinction between “Spaniard” and “Mexican”; thewealth of legend, however ... Read more

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