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Eminent Doctors: Their Lives And Their Work

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 Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work contains biographical accounts of notable men of medicine whose contributions have made medicine and surgery what they are today.
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&Quote;We&Quote; The Famous Flier'S Own Story Of His Life And His Trans-Atlantic Flight, Together With His Views On The Future Of Aviation

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 Charles A. Lindbergh’s life is chronicled in this autobiography. It includes the events leading up to his May 1927 New York to Paris solo trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. An appendix by Fitzhugh Green entitled, A Little of what the World thought of Lindbergh, describes the post-flight welcomes Lindberg received in Paris, Brussels, London, Washington, New York, and St. Louis.
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Men Of Invention And Industry

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 This book, originally published in 1884, chronicles men of invention and industry up to the end of the 19th century. The early chapters relate to the history of a very important branch of British industry—that of Shipbuilding. A later chapter, kindly prepared by Sir Edward J. Harland of Belfast, relates to the origin and progress of shipbuilding in Ireland. The author provides as accurate an account as possible of the Invention of the Steam-printing Press and its application to the production of newspapers and books,—an invention certainly of great importance to the spread of knowledge, science, and literature, throughout the world. The last chapter consists of a series of autobiographies. It may seem at first sight to have little to do with the leading object of the book; but it serves to show that a number of active, earnest, and able men were comparatively hidden throughout society, ready to turn their hands and heads to the improvement of their own characters, if not to the advancement of the general community of which they formed a part.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art And Work

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 Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work is an early 19th-century biography written in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and later translated by Charles Sanford Terry.
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Journal Of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume- 1895-1899)

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 The ultimate meaning of the Russian Revolution which took place on March 7, 1917, can be best understood through the pages of the Journal of Leo Tolstoi which is here printed. The spiritual qualities which make up the mind and personality of Tolstoi are the spiritual qualities which make up the new era among men which is being waged so painfully and so uncompromisingly on the soil of Russia. One holds the key to the other, for no land but Russia could have produced a Tolstoi, and in no land but Russia could Tolstoi have been so embraced and so absorbed.
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Life And Letters Of Robert Browning

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 Robert Browning was one of the greatest English poets of the Victorian era. This biography contains letters Browning wrote to relatives and friends throughout his life, giving an insight into his formation as a poet.
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How They Succeeded: Life Stories Of Successful Men Told By Themselves

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 How They Succeeded is the life-stories of successful men and women Each story contains the elements that make men and women successful; and they are intended to show that character, energy, and an indomitable ambition will succeed in the world, and that in this land, where all men are born equal and have an equal chance in life, there is no reason for despair.
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Women Painters Of The World

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 Women Painters of the World presents an illustrated history of Women painters from the time of Caterina Vigri (1413-1463) to Rosa Bonheur and more.
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Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

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 To strive for liberty and for a democratic way of life has always been a noble tradition of our country. Susan B. Anthony followed this tradition. Convinced that the principle of equal rights for all, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, must be expressed in the laws of a true republic, she devoted her life to the establishment of this ideal. While her goals for women were only partially realized in her lifetime, she prepared the soil for the acceptance not only of her long-hoped-for federal woman suffrage amendment but for a worldwide recognition of human rights, now expressed in the United Nations Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights. She looked forward to the time when throughout the world there would be no discrimination because of race, color, religion, or sex.
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Educational Pioneer In Victorian England: Frances Mary Buss

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 The book draws upon substantial archival data to present a biographical account of the life and career of Frances Mary Buss (FMB). Unlike earlier biographies, written at a different time and for different reasons, I provide a critical and interpretative analysis, applying a research methodology given in Gary McCulloch’s Documentary Research in Education, History and the Social Sciences, McCulloch and William Richardson’s Historical Research in Educational Settings and Louis Cohen and Lawrence Manion’s Research Methods in Education. I investigate FMB’s legacy, nationally and internationally. I present her background, family and raison d’être, including her crucial time at Queen’s College, London. I give an account of the North London Collegiate School she founded in 1850, and her second school, the Camden School for Girls: their functions, the impact of examinations and relationships with teachers, other schools, inspectors and parents. I also engage in her professional inner circle, including Emily Davies, Dorothea Beale, Sophie Bryant, Beata Doreck, W.B. Hodgson, Joseph Payne, David Laing and others. I examine the part played by the Schools Inquiry Commission in the 1870s and FMB’s submission of evidence. I specify her contribution to the College of Preceptors, the Head Mistresses’ Association, the Teachers’ Registration Movement, the Teachers’ Guild, the Cambridge Training College, and the Kensington Society.
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Some Heroes Of Travel

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 There is no pleasanter mode of learning geography than by studying the works of distinguished travellers. The narratives which are contained in this book have been selected with a view to variety of interest. They range over Mexico, Western Australia, Central Africa, and Central Asia. They include the experiences of the hunter, the war correspondent, the geographical explorer; and a lady traveller.
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Famous American Statesmen

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 Famous American Statesmen, published in 1888, is a collection of 10 biographical sketches of America’s most famous statesmen. With the great, one''s thoughts and manners easily become great; ... what this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities," says Emerson. Such lives as are sketched in this book are a constant inspiration, both to young and old. They teach patriotism—a deeper love for and devotion to America. They teach that life, with some definite and noble purpose, is worth living.
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Famous Affinities Of History: The Romance Of Devotion

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 "Famous Affinities of History" by London Orr is collection of biographies that profiles history''s most famous romantic couples. The stories of Antony and Cleopatra; Napoleon and Marie Walewska; Honore de Balzac and Evelina Hanska and other famous couples are dealt with in an interesting manner. This book gives us an insight into the lives and lifestyles of popular figures of history.
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Complete Life Of William Mckinley And Story Of His Assassination: An Authentic And Official Memorial Edition, Containing Every Incident In The Career Of The Immortal Statesman, Soldier, Orator And Pa

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 On Friday, September 6, 1901, the American people were shocked and stunned by the news that their beloved President, William McKinley, had been shot down by a cowardly assassin, while attending the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. This book is a detailed account of the events surrounding the assassination as well as other important events in the life of William McKinley.
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Twelve Years A Slave: Narrative Of Solomon Northup

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 It was Solomon''s fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the "Pine Woods" shows that among slaveholders there are men of humanity as well as of cruelty. Some of them are spoken of with emotions of gratitude—others in a spirit of bitterness. It is believed that the following account of his experience on Bayou Bœuf presents a correct picture of Slavery, in all its lights and shadows, as it now exists in that locality. Unbiased, as he conceives, by any prepossessions or prejudices, the only object of the editor has been to give a faithful history of Solomon Northup''s life, as he received it from his lips.
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Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. Volume V

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 Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. The book provides an honest and thorough account of the man and the society in which he lived.
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Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. Volume Iv

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 Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. The book provides an honest and thorough account of the man and the society in which he lived.
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Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. Volume Iii

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 Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. The book provides an honest and thorough account of the man and the society in which he lived.
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Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. Volume Ii

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 Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. The book provides an honest and thorough account of the man and the society in which he lived.
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Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. Volume I

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 Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. The book provides an honest and thorough account of the man and the society in which he lived.
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Hortense. Makers Of History Series

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 The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of each, gained from the highest authorities obtainable. The book is intended for those who long to know birds intimately and intelligently, and wish to belong to the great army of bird-students who are "doing their bit" to preserve the bird-life of our country.
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Nero. Makers Of History Series

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 In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of the several personages that are made successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original sources of information, and has confined himself strictly to them.
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Louis Philippe. Makers Of History Series

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 It would be difficult to find, in all the range of the past, a man whose career has been so full of wonderful and exciting vicissitude as that of Louis Philippe. His life covers the most eventful period in French history. The storms of 1789 consigned his father to the guillotine, his mother and brothers to imprisonment, and himself and sister to poverty and exile. There are few romances more replete with pensive interest than the wanderings of Louis Philippe to escape the bloodhounds of the Revolution far away amidst the ices of Northern Europe, to the huts of the Laplanders, and again through the almost unbroken wilds of North America, taking refuge in the wigwams of the Indians, and floating with his two brothers in a boat a distance of nearly two thousand miles through the solemn solitudes of the Ohio and the Mississippi from Pittsburg to the Gulf.
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Genghis Khan. Makers Of History Series

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 The word khan is not a name, but a title. It means chieftain or king. It is a word used in various forms by the different tribes and nations that from time immemorial have inhabited Central Asia, and has been applied to a great number of potentates and rulers that have from time to time arisen among them. Genghis Khan was the greatest of these princes. He was, in fact, one of the most renowned conquerors whose exploits history records.
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