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In United States history, the Gilded Age is a period approximately spanning the final three decades of the nineteenth century; from the 1870s to 1900. The term was coined by Mark TwainThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, satirizing what he believed to be an era of serious socia... Read more...
Keywords: the gilded age, mark twain, american history, satire, american literature, political corruption, economic exploitation
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Nigerian civil war known as Nigeria-Biafra War and its untold History was a civil war in Nigeria from 6 July 1967 to 15 January 1970.During the two and half years of the war, there were about 1000,000 overall military casualties, while between 500,000 and 3 million Biafran ... Read more...
Keywords: History, Civil War, Biafra, Nigeria
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World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global conflict originating in Europe that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars,” it led to the mobili... Read more...
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Two Volumes Annotated
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The History of Tasmania: Two Volumes Annotated by John West.
The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor, the Governor of the Dutch East ... Read more...
Keywords: History, Tasmania, Expedition, Governor, Zoology, Aborigine, Aboriginal, Colony, Tasman, Tribes, Ethnology
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Volume 2
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- 114490 Words
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The South Pole by Roald Amundsen tells the story of the author's trek to the Antarctic region. Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, on December 14, 1911. His account, entitled The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in th... Read more...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female A... Read more...
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The Making of a City
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Ever wonder what it takes to make a city? Here is a wonderful history of the city I was born in and how it came about. This is only the first part of the history and its people, along with how vital it is not just to this state, but the world since this is a great agricultural area.
Keywords: city, history maker, people
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War and Peace (Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ», Voyna i mir) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered as Tolstoy's finest lit... Read more...
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Volume 2
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From Nansen's Introduction
This book owes its existence in the first instance to a rash promise made some years ago to my friend Dr. J. Scott Keltie, of London, that I would try, when time permitted, to contribute a volume on the history of arctic voyages to his series of ... Read more...
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Nine-day Queen Jane Gray, who fell out of the story. What do we know about her ?? The answer is here! Jane was a very kind queen, fair and honest. People like her deserve respect, but the girl has become a puppet in the hands of adults hungry for power. That's always so, in... Read more...
Keywords: Jane, Gray, Queen, England, Mary, Nine
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