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The Hadhramout: Coasting Eastward by Land

In Southern Arabia

Read by Ken Masters

Theodore Bent

Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to …

Maxims 131-140

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián

300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

Part 3, Ch 6: The Grin

In The Other Side of the Hill, and Home Again

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Frank W. Boreham

Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

A Hottentot's Love for Her Teachers and the Power of Prayer

In Narratives of Colored Americans

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Abigail Mott

Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …

The man without a name, by Frances M. Butler

In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 04 January 1897

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Various

The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Beginning the world

In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 13

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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

A Triumphal March

In The Kobzar of the Ukraine

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Taras Shevchenko

In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tan…

Chapter XXV: The First English Guide-Book

In English Literature for Boys and Girls

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …

Gravissimo Officii Munere (On French Associations of Worship) August 10, 1906

In Encyclical Letters of Pope St. Pius X

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Pope St Pius X

During his eleven year pontificate (1903-1914) Pope St. Pius X wrote 16 encyclicals. The subjects ranged from saints, The Immaculate Concept…