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Woman and the New Race

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…

The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

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Robert W. Service

Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …

01 - Chapter I. A Crimean Night

In The Four Feathers

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A.E.W. Mason and A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells th…

THE FALSE ZAGA CHRIST OF ABYSSINIA

In Claimants to Royalty

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John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram

A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

Ch. 14 - Old Friends

In Behind the Scenes

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Elizabeth Keckley

This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

22 - Foch, part 2

In Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

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J. Walker McSpadden

These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the s…

05 - Chapter 4: Demons, Fairies, and Ghosts

In Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

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Donald Alexander Mackenzie

Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in t…

01 - A Letter to the Minister of Marine

In War

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Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…