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Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot

Richard Cannon

Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849.The conduct of the Briti..

Magic Shadows - The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

Martin Quigley

The audience for the first screen performance was as distinguished as any that has since graced a Hollywood production. Other professors of the Roman College were there to note for themselves on which..

The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 7, May 1888

Trinity College

Among the latest features of the present system of teaching English in our colleges, may be mentioned the introduction of what is generally known as “parallel reading.” Formally the student was requir..

The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 8, June 1888

Trinity College

The reasoning of the early writers, which finally culminated in the abstruse discussions of the schoolmen, developed some remarkable doctrines. They discovered that all holding offices in the Church, ..

Picturesque Spain - Architecture, landscape, life of the people

Kurt Hielscher

The Spaniards have coined a proud sentence: “Quien no ha visto Granada, no ha visto nada!” He who has not seen Granada has seen nought! And I should like to add: He who has seen Granada and the Alhamb..

The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1934

Charles D. Hornig

For the past few years the Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., of London, has been publishing a collection of weird tale books under the title, The Creeps Series, a Collection of Uneasy Tales. Included in t..

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 5, Vol. I, February 2, 1884

Chambers' Journal

Among the crowd of nonentities that frequent the Hampstead Wells there is one notable figure, that of Richard Steele. In 1712, Steele retired from London to a small house on Haverstock Hill, on the ro..

Heir Apparent

Alan Edward Nourse

Bart nodded excitedly. "That's right. Dillon got the government to back his contracts and research, and he'll be tripling the number of ships in space within the next five years. He needs men—the best..