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Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (August 15, 1787 Boston - January 26, 1860 Brookline, Massachusetts) was an author and abolitionist. She was the daughter of Samuel Cabot of Boston. When he died in 1819, ten years after her mother had died, she and her two sisters established a ... Read more...
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Garrett Putnam Serviss (March 24, 1851 – May 25, 1929) was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He took a law degree at Columbia University but ... Read more...
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fter sitting down a couple of times in water two feet deep, I concluded to stay on shore and cast out into the pool. Following this exhilarating exercise with indifferent success, I noticed approaching a little, old Indian. He was bareheaded and barefooted. His shirt was op... Read more...
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Romance of the Rivers
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At this spot he remained three days, engaged in trading with the natives, and filling his casks with water; and then sailed up the river about twelve miles along its northern shore, where, finding that he could proceed no farther from having taken the wrong channel, he agai... Read more...
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in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection
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If this be not strictly attended to, the plants will not be brought to that degree of perfection, as might reasonably be expected from a bed in its proper heat and condition.[2] After the bed has been laid and dealt with according to the foregoing directions, spread two bar... Read more...
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St George Jackson Mivart (1827 - 1900) was an English biologist. In 1871 his Genesis of Species brought him into the controversy then raging. Though admitting evolution generally, Mivart denied its applicability to the human intellect. Mivart was a critic whom Charles Darwi... Read more...
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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fictio... Read more...
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Robert Goldthwaite Carter (October 29, 1845 – January 4, 1936) was a US Cavalry officer who participated in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars, most notably against the Comanche during which he received the Medal of Honor for his role against a Comanche raiding part... Read more...
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On the Variation of Species, with Especial by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera, by Thomas Vernon Wollaston.Thomas Vernon Wollaston FLS (9 March 1822 – 4 January 1878) was a prominent English entomologist and malacologist, becoming especially known for his studies of Col... Read more...
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The Author of this book is William Platt Ball (1844—1917) who was a freethinker and author.This book is part of the Tredition Classics. Civilization largely sets aside the harsh but ultimately salutary action of the great law of Natural Selection without providing an effi... Read more...
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