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"All crows are alike," said a wise man, speaking of politicians. That is quite true--in the dark. By daylight, however, there is as much difference, within and without, in the first two crows one meets as in the first two men or women. I asked a little child once, who was t... Read more...
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For three days the Spring sun had been shining out of a clear sky and casting a gleaming, golden coverlet over the blue waters of Lake Geneva. Storm and rain had ceased. The breeze murmured softly and pleasantly up in the ash-trees, and all around in the green fields the ye... Read more...
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John Muir (/mjʊər/; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914[1]) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada ... Read more...
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A DISCUSSION OF SYPHILIS FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE
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Sir John Heydon Romaine Stokes, KBE (23 July 1917 – 27 June 2003), was a British politician and a Conservative Party Member of Parliament. he son of Victor Romaine Stokes, a stockjobber, Stokes was educated at Haileybury College and Queen's College, Oxford.[1] He stood for... Read more...
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You might say the trouble started at the Ivy, which is a moving picture house in Cave Junction built like a big quonset. It's the only show in these parts, and most of us old-timers up here in the timber country of southwest Oregon have got into the habit of going to see a ... Read more...
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Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when one year old. From early childhood until early adulthood, Paine lived in the village of Xenia in southern Illinois; here he received his schooling. His home in Xenia is still standing. At t... Read more...
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Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and a... Read more...
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Harriet was the eldest of four children born to Seth Mann and Mary (Holbrook) in Auburn, New York. She became an author who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Olive Thorne Miller.[1] In addition to writing on birds and their behavior, she contributed to the journal of the ... Read more...
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Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) was an American writer, ornithologist and folklorist. She was born on June 18, 1865 in Brewer, Maine, and attended Bangor High School and Smith College. She died in Brewer on December 31, 1946. She was the daughter on Manly Hardy, a noted fur trader.[1]
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Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality –... Read more...
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