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Children of India

Janet Harvey Kelman

Before America was discovered by Columbus men here had strange ideas about the shape of the world. Men in India had thought of that too, long before anyone in Britain did, and this is the picture of t..

Fombombo

T. S. Stribling

In the capital of Venezuela, ancient usage has given names to the street corners instead of to the streets. This may have been very well in the thinly populated days of the Spanish conquest, but to-da..

Moon of Treason

Emmett McDowell

Vickers had been examined many times. "The peculiarity of your vision," one eminent psycho-biologist had told him, "lies in your ability to see matter as it actually is. Tenuous unmaterial energy. The..

Mystery of the Caribbean Pearls

Andy Adams

He found a room in a small pension, a rooming house, and spent most of the night writing two letters. One of them was addressed to his son in The Netherlands. The other was to Charles Keene on the isl..

Radio-Activity

Ernest Rutherford

The rapid advance of our knowledge of radio-activity has been dependent on the information already gained by research into the electric properties of gases. The action possessed by the radiations from..

Unwelcome Tenant

Roger D. Aycock

The feeling of utter freedom staggered him. For the first time in his life he possessed himself entirely, without doubt or reservation, a complete and serene entity. He could feel his consciousness st..

Nicaraguan Antiquities

Carl Bovallius

Although this sketch is certainly not the place for an account of the history of Central America or Nicaragua, yet I may be permitted to give a brief statement of those few and disconnected notices th..

The Pharaohs and Their People

E. Berkley

The translations I have given are selected and freely rendered from those that have appeared in Records of the Past, after comparison with any others that were available. I am also much indebted throu..