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John Hanning Speke What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile

Fiction
English
99299 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was in fact the first European that reached Lake Victoria and as such is the "discoverer of the source of the Nile". He is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863 - his writings are an example of scientific racism.[2][3] In this hypothesis, he supposed that the Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of the biblical figure, Ham, and had lighter skin and more “European” features than the Bantu-featured Hutu over whom they ruled.[2][4] [more]

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Thaddeus Tadeusz Hutyra Rebel Lovers, Rebel Hearts

Poetry
English
18989 Words
Ages 12 and up
873
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A fascinating retrospective written with the poetic pen. It's a poetry about love, lovers, rebel lovers especially, nature, the world, relationship between lovers and societies, a thorough look into psyche of individuals and people in the wider context, added are marvelous descriptions of the environment and also author's expressing of desire for love and goodness being the engine for all humans in this world. There are also a few poems here in which I express my feelings towards New York City, the greatest town on Earth, one housing descendants from all parts of the world, with great, symphonic atmosphere clearly being felt in every corner of New York City and in the NYC skies. ' Rebel Lovers, Rebel Hearts ' is in all aspects exceptional. [more]

Keywords: poem, poetry, Rebel Lovers, Rebel Hearts, Thaddeus Tadeusz Hutyra, song, rock

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Ernest Dowson And Arthur Moore Dowson And Moore A Comedy Of Masks A Novel

Bibles
English
71160 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Many Years Ago, In The Days Of The First Rainham And Of Wooden Ships, It Had Been No Doubt A Flourishing Ship-Yard; And, Indeed, Models Of Wooden Leviathans Of The Period, Which Had Been Turned Out, Not A Few, In Those Palmy Days, Were Still Dusty Ornaments Of Its Somewhat Antique Office. But As Time Went On, And The Age Of Iron Intervened, And The Advance On The Clyde And The Tyne Had Made Thames Ship-Building A Thing Of The Past, Blackpool Dock Had Ceased To Be Of Commercial Importance. No More Ships Were Built There, And Fewer Ships Put In To Be Overhauled And Painted; While Even These Were For The Most Part Of A Class Viewed At Lloyd's With Scant Favour, Which Seemed, Like The Yard Itself, To Have Fallen Somewhat Behind The Day. The Original Rainham Had Not Bequeathed His Energy Along With His Hoards To His Descendants; And, Indeed, The Last Of These, Philip Rainham, A Man Of Weak Health, Original Rainham Had Not Bequeathed His Energy Along With His Hoards To His Descendants; And, Indeed, The Last Of These, Philip Rainham, A Man Of Weak Health, Whose Tastes, Although These Were Veiled In Obscurity, Were Supposed To Trench Little Upon Shipping, Let The Business Jog Along So Much After Its Own Fashion, That The Popular View Hinted At Its Imminent Dissolution. A Dignified, Scarcely Prosperous Quiet Seemed The Normal Air Of Blackpool Dock, So That Even When It Was Busiest --And Work Still Came In, Almost By Tradition, With A Certain [more]

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Various Author Lippincott'S Magazine, December, 1885

Fiction
English
71288 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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In The Following Article I Propose To Give Some Account Of A Typical Tobacco-Plantation In Virginia And The Life Of Its Negro Laborers As I Have Observed It From Day To Day And Season To Season. Although It Is Restricted To Narrow Local Bounds And Runs In The Line Of Exacting Routine, That Life Is Yet Varied And Eventful In Its Way. The Negro Stands So Much Apart To Himself, In Spite Of All Transforming Influences, That Everything Relating To Him Seems Unique And Almost Foreign. Even Now, When Emancipation Has Done So Much To Improve His Condition, His Social And Economic Status Still Presents Peculiar And Anomalous Aspects; And In No Part Of The South Is This More Notably The Case Than In The Southern Counties Of Virginia, Which, Before The Late War, Were The Principal Seat Of Slavery In The State, And Where To-Day The Blacks Far Outnumber The Whites. This Section Has Always Been An Important Tobacco-Region; And This Is The Explanation Of Its Teeming Negro Population, For Tobacco Requires As Much And As Continuous Work As Cotton. There Were Many Hundreds Of Slaves On The Large Plantations, And Their Descendants Have Bred With Great Rapidity And Show Little [more]

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Various Non Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885

Design
English
71709 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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In The Following Article I Propose To Give Some Account Of A Typical Tobacco-Plantation In Virginia And The Life Of Its Negro Laborers As I Have Observed It From Day To Day And Season To Season. Although It Is Restricted To Narrow Local Bounds And Runs In The Line Of Exacting Routine, That Life Is Yet Varied And Eventful In Its Way. The Negro Stands So Much Apart To Himself, In Spite Of All Transforming Influences, That Everything Relating To Him Seems Unique And Almost Foreign. Even Now, When Emancipation Has Done So Much To Improve His Condition, His Social And Economic Status Still Presents Peculiar And Anomalous Aspects; And In No Part Of The South Is This More Notably The Case Than In The Southern Counties Of Virginia, Which, Before The Late War, Were The Principal Seat Of Slavery In The State, And Where To-Day The Blacks Far Outnumber The Whites. This Section Has Always Been An Important Tobacco-Region; And This Is The Explanation Of Its Teeming Negro Population, For Tobacco Requires As Much And As Continuous Work As Cotton. There Were Many Hundreds Of Slaves On The Large Plantations, And Their Descendants Have Bred With Great Rapidity And Show Little Inclination To Emigrate From The Neighborhoods Where They Were Born. [more]

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James Fenimore Cooper The Wept Of Wish-Ton-Wish (Fiscle Part-4)

Social Science
English
149114 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The Incidents Of This Tale Must Be Sought In A Remote Period Of The Annals Of America. A Colony Of Self-Devoted And Pious Refugees From Religious Persecution Had Landed On The Rock Of Plymouth, Less Than Half A Century Before The Time At Which The Narrative Commences; And They, And Their Descendants, Had Already Transformed Many A Broad Waste Of Wilderness Into Smiling Fields And Cheerful Villages. The Labors Of The Emigrants Had Been Chiefly Limited To The Country On The Coast, Which, By Its Proximity To The Waters That Rolled Between Them And Europe, Afforded The Semblance Of A Connexion With The Land Of Their Forefathers And The Distant Abodes Of Civilization. But Enterprise, And A Desire To Search For Still More Fertile Domains, Together With The Temptation Offered By The Vast And Unknown Regions That Lay Along Their Western And Northern Borders, Had Induced Many Bold Adventurers To Penetrate More Deeply Into The Forests. The Precise Spot, To Which We Desire To Transport The Imagination Of The Reader, Was One Of These Establishments Of What May, Not Inaptly, Be Called The Forlorn-Hope, In The March Of Civilization Through The Country. [more]

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William Elliot Griffis Welsh Fairy Tales (fiscle part-9)

Fairy Tale
English
44689 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Although I Never Saw You, Since You Died In 1804, I Am Glad You Were One Of Those Welshmen Who Opposed The Policy Of King George Iii And That You, After Coming To America In 1783, Were Among The First Sea Captains To Carry The American Flag Around The World. That You Knew Many Of The Free Quakers And Other Patriots Of The Revolution And That They Buried You Among Them, Near Benjamin Franklin, Is A Matter Of Pride To Your Descendants. That You Were Born In Wales And Spoke Welsh, As Did Also Those Three Great Prophets Of Spiritual Liberty, Roger Williams, William Penn, And Thomas Jefferson, Is Still Further Ground For Pride In One's Ancestry. Now, In The Perspective Of History We See That Our Washington And His Compeers And Wilkes, Barre, Burke And The Friends Of America In Parliament Were Fighting The Same Battle Of Freedom. Though Our Debt To Wales For Many Things Is Great, We Count Not Least Those Inheritances From The World Of Imagination, For Which The Cymric Land Was Famous, Even Before The Days Of Either Anglo-Saxon Or Norman. [more]

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George Barr Mccutcheon The Daughter Of Anderson Crow Volume-97

Self-Help
English
80255 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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He Was Imposing, Even In His Pensiveness. There Was No Denying The Fact That He Was An Important Personage In Tinkletown, And To The Residents Of Tinkletown That Meant A Great Deal, For Was Not Their Village A Perpetual Monument To The American Revolution? Even The Most Generalising Of Historians Were Compelled To Devote At Least A Paragraph To The Battle Of Tinkletown, While Some Of The More Enlightened Gave A Whole Page And A Picture Of The Conflict That Brought Glory To The Sleepy Inhabitants Whose Ancestors Were Enterprising Enough To Annihilate A Whole Company Of British Redcoats, Once On A Time. Notwithstanding All This, A Particularly Disagreeable Visitor From The City Once Remarked, In The Presence Of Half A Dozen Descendants (After Waiting Twenty Minutes At The Post-Office For A Dime's Worth Of Stamps), That Tinkletown Was Indeed A Monument, But He Could Not Understand Why The Dead Had Been Left Unburied. There Was Excellent Cause For Resentment, But The Young Man And His Stamps Were Far Away Before The Full Force Of The Slander Penetrated The Brains Of The Listeners. [more]

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Julie Kirtón Chandler The Children of Gavrilek

Fantasy
English
510 Words
Ages 18 and up
9
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Sailing aboard a storm-thrashed vessel from America to Cuba, a young woman (Audrianna) and her mysterious son (Devon) are shipwrecked and left for dead. They survive thanks to the mystical efforts of a small community located on the coast of 1920s Georgia. While in the care of this unique group and its beautiful and loving leader, Kendis, Audrianna comes to discover the secrets of her son’s cognitive powers, his (and Kendis’s) otherworldly origins, and an enthralling, Earth-changing “game” that threatens the existences of both the alien descendants of Gavrilek and the unsuspecting inhabitants of Earth. The key to the universe’s survival lies in the unraveling of Audrianna’s conflicted past and desires, as well as in the seemingly motley collection of castoffs that Kendis has nurtured and trained. Invigorated by mesmerizing prose and fervid imagination, The Children of Gavrilek weaves together world history, science fiction, and romance to unleash a powerful story of wrenching emotion and unexpected relevancy for today’s age. Its author is at the height of her narrative powers and her creation will keep you captivated from the opening pages until the last sentence. [more]

Keywords: ebook, kindle book, historical fiction, paranormal fiction, romance, lesbian/gay literature, adult fiction, sci-fi and fantasy

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Emilia Sherman Awake by Nightfall

Chapters 1-10

Fantasy
English
29269 Words
No Age Recommendation
1535
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Marina Stonehart is stuck between two boys. One named Darien, average looking, is all about protecting her from any dangers. The other named Leon, bad boy, who is all about having fun and doing dangerous things. One is keeping a secret and one is willing to tell the truth. Marina survives a plane crash that kills her parents. She wants to know how she survived and has a feeling it might have a connection to Darien and Leon, and possibly the angels that have fallen. Leon is willing to tell the truth but only if Marina swears to serve him. Darien is only trying his hardest to prove that he could catch his ex-best friend, Leon. He is a Seeker without any gift and is only trying to do his job. Leon, a Fable, has found a way to kill the Fallen and Darien is supposed to catch him before things get out of hand. The only problem is Leon is untraceable. That is until Marina becomes part of the picture. But as Leon is getting closer to Marina, Darien is discovering the truths before him. Someone is creating an army of Nephilim, descendants of the Fallen. Darien is starting to think its not who everyone think it is. The only problem is they want Marina. Darien isnt willing to give her up. [more]

Keywords: fallen angels fantasy fiction romance

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