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The Wide, Wide World is a work of sentimentalism based on the life of young Ellen Montgomery. The story begins with Ellen’s happy life being disrupted by the fact that her mother is very ill and her father must take her to Europe, requiring Ellen to leave home to live with ... Read more...
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The first PQ government was known as the "republic of teachers" because of the large number of scholars who served as cabinet members. The PQ was the first government to recognize the rights of Aboriginal peoples to self-determination, insofar as this self-determination did... Read more...
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First published in 1859, by Spottiswoode & Co. for Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts of London Ceylon proved very popular and five editions, variously revised were in published in eight months, the last in 1860. The work is an account of many aspects of the island of Cey... Read more...
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The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. The first scene is a wonderfully dramatic legal thriller. The reader is introduced to Mr. Andrew Vanstone, Mrs. Vanstone and their two daughters Norah, age 26, hap... Read more...
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A confession is a statement made by a person or a group of people acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would prefer to keep hidden. The term is generally associated with an admission of a moral or legal wrong. A legal confession is an admission of... Read more...
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Two Years Of Service In The Zouaves Had Wrought A Change In Anastase Gouache, The Painter. He Was Still A Light Man, Nervously Built, With Small Hands And Feet, And A Delicate Face; But Constant Exposure To The Weather Had Browned His Skin, And A Life Of Unceasing ... Read more...
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On An Early Winter Afternoon, Clear But Not Cold, When The Vegetable World Was A Weird Multitude Of Skeletons Through Whose Ribs The Sun Shone Freely, A Gleaming Landau Came To A Pause On The Crest Of A Hill In Wessex.
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Mr. Samuel Weatherley, Sole Proprietor Of The Firm Of Samuel Weatherley & Co., Wholesale Provision Merchants, Of Tooley Street, London, Paused Suddenly On His Way From His Private Office To The Street. There Was Something Which Until That Second Had Entirely Slipped... Read more...
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The Telephone Was Invented In 1875 By Alexander Graham Bell, A Resident Of The United States, A Native Of Scotland, And By Profession A Teacher Of Deaf Mutes In The Art Of Vocal Speech. In That Year, Professor Bell Was Engaged In The Experimental Development Of A Syst... Read more...
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The Heavens Are Studded With Stars, Works Of An Almighty Creator; Their Pale Rays Give But A Feeble Indication Of The Glorious Brightness Of Worlds, Many Peopled By Beings Of A Beauty, Goodness, And Power Excelling All That Human Understanding Can Conceive.
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