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THE SENIOR FELLOW

In The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, hor…

Contemporary Projects, Chapter 16, Part 3

In Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments


Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

Ch 6 - Better Acquaintances

In Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

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Jules Verne


Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes th…

Amongst the Greeks

In The Three Midshipmen

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William Henry Giles Kingston


This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at …

Section XI - Diotropical Colours of the Second Class - Refraction

In Theory of Colours

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and …

Zeno

In The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers

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François Fénelon


François Fénelon became a priest in 1675, Archbishop of Paris in 1679, was spiritual advisor to Madame Guyon, and was appointe…

Chapter XII

In The Deluge Volume 2

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Henryk Sienkiewicz


The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…

The Cookery of Vegetables

In The Chemistry of Cookery

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W. Mattieu Williams


This book, written in the late 1800s, is a book of chemistry that explains the whys and hows of cooking to trained chefs and laymen alike. T…

Chapter I, part 1

In It Is Never Too Late to Mend

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Charles Reade


A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. Wi…

The Explosion in the Vaughan Pit from 'Facing Death'

In Tales from the Works of G.A.Henty

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G. A. Henty


George Alfred Henty was an English newspaper correspondent who became a prolific author of, predominantly, adventure stories for boys. Most …

Of the Word of God Part I

In Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

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Martin Luther


When Martin Luther promulgated his “95 Theses” 1n 1517, he probably did not envision the initiation of the historical division of the indivi…

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