... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...iption of Marco's travels -- Tale of a devout shoemaker -- How faith removed a mountain -- The sight of a pretty girl's leg causes the loss of an eye ... ... even Cortez wept - - The retreat back to Tlascala -- A desperate fight in the mountain passes -- Capture of the sacred banner -- Cortez recovers from... ...Guatemozin becomes monarch of Mexico -- His energy in putting his capital in a state of defence -- Cortez builds a fleet of Brigantines -- A battle up... ...e indisputable evidence of their former existence, though history may not tell us how they were destroyed, we will now undertake to show that the new ... ... Euphrates he is believed to have had his birth, and from Ararat Genesis tells us Noah stepped forth upon dry land after the flood had drowned all exc... ...he dense jungles of a tropical climate, among the crags and along the mountain ranges, and numbers of trembling wretches were thus apprehended and bro... ...eft Terra del Fuego, and continuing eastward, passed Falkland islands, isle of Georgia, and several others at which he called, so that it was not unti...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...hrough the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Nu... ...ion, my thanks go out to the anonymous donor whose generous donation allowed us to found the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and to Bob You... ... person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the ... ...ion of industrial technologies that threatened the environ- ment also taught us to recognize its value. The explosion of information tech- nologies ha... ...important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subject matter. Yet readers come with different backgrou... ...n there was, for example, a desire of the people living in Denver to see the mountains again. Similarly, the people living in Los An- geles had a desi... ...ntellectual Property Law Affects Musi- cal Creativity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), provides a more comprehensive coverage than I can h...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge ... ...vident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some i... ...thodical order seems to have regulated the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable ami... ...i. Section 8. **See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia. 129 Tocqueville him of his power, is to commit what all the world... ...r. The question was most elaborately considered in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia, and was decided by the majority of the Supreme Court in the affirm... ...es, not palpable to the senses but discovered by the mind, the imagination ranges freely, and poets, finding a thousand subjects to delineate, also fi... ...ide, but its boundaries are de- termined. In democracies ambition commonly ranges in a narrower field, but if once it gets beyond that, hardly any lim...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

...20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ... ... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of enormous power. “The great depths of the ocean are entirely unknown to us. Soundings cannot reach them. What passes in those remote depths—what be... ...t. If we do not know them all—if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conform- able to reason than to admit the existence of ... ...led everywhere. Then by degrees, in the silurian pe- riod, the tops of the mountains began to appear, the islands emerged, then disappeared in partial... ...est of the seven islands that form the group. I saw clearly the cultivated ranges, and the several moun- tain-chains that run parallel with the side, ... ...iva, the largest of the group that belongs to France. I only saw the woody mountains against the horizon, because Cap- tain Nemo did not wish to bring... ... that the debris of shipwrecked vessels had been seen on the coasts of New Georgia. But D’Entrecasteaux, ignoring this communication—rather uncertain,...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...vote being put to any test not found in the laws of Maryland. This brings us to a difference between Missouri and Maryland. With the same reason in ... ...the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, ... ...he House of Representatives, and especially on re- cent military events in Georgia and Tennessee. Y ours very truly, A. LINCOLN. 46 The Writings of A... ...rmity with law, and thus our excellent system is firmly established in the mountains, which once seemed a barren and uninhabitable waste between the A... ...eretofore known, and the coun- try occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains and the subordinate ranges now teems with enterprising labor, whi... ... try occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains and the subordinate ranges now teems with enterprising labor, which is richly remunerative. It... ...r. I am going to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of our mountain ranges, where there is room enough for all. Immigration, which even the wa...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...a good meal after the day’s work, but it would be a good thing for both of us if we took lighter lunches.” “But Georgie, here at home I always do have... ...ave a swell time if you had to eat the truck that new steward hands out to us at the Ath- letic Club! But I certainly do feel out of sorts, this morn-... ...polished granite. It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words. He was, for a spring-enchante... ...air Lewis Zenith could not have told whether he was in a city of Oregon or Georgia, Ohio or Maine, Oklahoma or Manitoba. But to Babbitt every inch was... ...rint, a colored photograph of a New England house, a photograph of a Rocky Mountain, or all four.) It was a room as superior in comfort to the “parlor... ...ay Evening Post—an elm-lined snowy street of these new 90 Babbitt houses, Georgian some of ‘em, or with low raking roofs and—The kind of street you’d... ...nothing to do. Though they had few servants, yet with gas stoves, electric ranges and dish- washers and vacuum cleaners, and tiled kitchen walls, thei...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...i by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. This gives us the age of that piece of country, without any trouble at all—one hundr... ...or the present—I will give a few more of them further along in the book. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its hist... ...eeting of the waters from Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the moun tain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his... ...ulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and grass... ...iece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; I shake my self and crumble the mountains! Contemplate me through leather—don’t use the naked eye! I’m th... ...d a fellow by the name of Crenshaw gathered four good horses and started for Georgia. We got in com pany with a young South Carolinian just before we...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting onc... ...merican people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves; and candid men will ack... ...e United States to that portion of our territory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains. Our title to the coun try of the Oregon is “clear and unquest... ...n, the only means by which the power of the States on this side of the Rocky Mountains can reach them in sufficient time to “protect” them “against in... ...vania the mineral trea sures of the great southeastern and central mountain ranges should have been so tardy in bringing to the smelting furnace and ... ... Democrats reclaimed the White House in the 1976 election. The Governor from Georgia defeated Gerald Ford, who had become President on August 9, 1974,...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

...olume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pe... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .....................................................184 A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS .............................................189 THE SPECTACLES .... ...s, barring only the natural and unavoidable exaggera- tion to which all of us are prone when detailing events which have had powerful influence in exc... ...e mast, on the deck of the cuddy. We flew along at a great rate—neither of us having 8 Poe in Five V olumes said a word since casting loose from the ... ...nant idea. Thus, I never fancied any stationary object, such as a house, a mountain, or any thing of that kind; but windmills, ships, large birds, bal... ... moon. Having thus gone eastwardly to the meridian of the western coast of Georgia, we kept that meridian until we were in the latitude from which we ... ...or some distance, until terminated in the extreme back- ground by gigantic ranges of ice mountains, the one towering above the other. Captain Cook con... ...the floes, aided by currents, into that icy region bounded on the north by Georgia, east by Sandwich Land and the South Orkneys, and west by the South...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

...Contents NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM ..........................................................4 LIGEIA ........................................................................................................169 MORELLA.............................

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ................308 Cavalry Crossing a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 B... ...Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long he... ...’ voyages, Joining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, t... ...fting and flickering around me, Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of, Contact daily and hourly that will not... ... States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor, The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her, The Mississippian ... ...n walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger... ...crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces, The chief gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time, After f...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ical hills, and the horizon is bounded by an irregular chain of more lofty mountains. The scene, as beheld through the hazy atmosphere of this climate... ...eraldic ornaments were the only things in this retired place that reminded us of Europe. The church or chapel formed one side of a quadrangle, in the ... ...oise of their song. One morning the view was singularly clear; the distant mountains being projected with the sharpest outline on a heavy bank of dark... ...In a MS. in the British Museum by Mr. Abbott, who made his observations in Georgia; see Mr. A. White’s paper in the “Annals of Nat. Hist.,” vol. vii. ... ...ot only abuts against its steep sides, but likewise separates the parallel ranges. The uniformity of the colouring gives an extreme quietness to the v... ...ical distribution of the infusoria, which are well known to have very wide ranges, that all the species in this substance, although brought from the e... ...ick with everlasting snow;” and there seems to be scarcely any vegetation. Georgia, an island 96 miles long and 10 broad, in the latitude of Yorkshire...

Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...is publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State University’s ongoing Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty e... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all ... ...importance of what work we do; and yet how much W alden 10 is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not... ...ass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation re quires more than Food and... ... was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man wh... ... glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the northwest, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, and ... ... of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massachusetts, all transient and fleeting phenomena, till I a...

...The book is devoted to roads, their origin and development throughout the centuries. Their history started along with the appearance of humans, their first paths, first attempts to expand the borders of their habitat. The chronicles of road connections should be considered as the history of humankind in the spatial domain at the crossroads of which the fat...

...In those distant times, traveling was always an unsafe business, so every merchant had to consider the risks of it. The road was rarely even, not to mention picturesque. It typically ran through a desert, often stony, with camels’ skeletons strewn all around—eerie marks, indeed, but useful for any traveler to use them for road signs...

...1. World’s Origins. Population Spread 2. First States 3. Ancient Rome. Secrets of the Empire 4. The Middle Ages. Drawing New Boundaries 5. The Age of Great Geographical Discoveries. The New Continent 6. Island Isolationism. Japan 7. The Modern Era. The Automobile 8....

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ur room (the same that Dr. Wallace occupied there) and boarding only costs us four dollars a week. Ann Todd was married something more than a year sin... .... I most heartily wish you and your Fanny would not fail to come. Just let us know the time, and we will have a room provided for you at our house, an... ...om Milledgeville to Athens, and from Warrenton to Decatur, in the State of Georgia (numbered 2366 and 2380), were let to Reeside and Avery at $1300 pe... ...uary 2, 1848 DEAR WILLIAM:—I just take my pen to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consump- tive man, with a voice like L... ...m which they looked at it. It did not look to persons residing east of the mountains as it did to those who lived among the public lands. But, for his... ...ng a real feeling of modesty in addressing an au- dience “this side of the mountains,” a part of the country where, in the opinion of the people of hi... ...have taken a distinct position on the question. We are in a trying time—it ranges above mere party— and this movement to call a halt and turn our step...

...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

...The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Jungle Book by Rudyard Ki... ...cs Series Publication The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... him, was squeaking: “My lord, my lord, it went in here!” “Shere Khan does us great honor,” said Father Wolf, but his eyes were very angry. “What does... ...the winter rains. He will scorch in the sun. What harm can a naked frog do us? Let him run with the Pack. Where is the bull, Bagheera? Let him be acce... ...tle. “The pity of the Monkey People!” Baloo snorted. “The stillness of the mountain stream! The cool of the summer sun! And then, man-cub?” “And then,... ...ed. “He has hidden for a month to throw thee off thy guard. He crossed the ranges last night with Tabaqui, hot-foot on thy trail,” said the Wolf, pant... ...y place on the Equator, where he was nearly baked to death; he went to the Georgia Islands, the Orkneys, Emerald Island, Little Nightingale Island, Go... ...at are screwed together when the time comes to use them. They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful f...

...Excerpt: It was seven o?clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day?s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay ...

......................................................................................................................................... 4 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack ............................................................................................................................ 23 Kaa?s Hunting ..................................................................

...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...nsolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves i... ...prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in al... ...xaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined n... ...grass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation requires more than Food and... ...nd was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man ... ... a glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north west, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, a... ... and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion 205 Mr. —— of Georgia or of Massachusetts, all transient and fleeting phenomena, till I ...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... he concluded, “and the tribe only a quarter of an hour behind. But that saved us; for the second run broke the jam above and shut them out. When they... ...e Man’s canoe and go to the Salt Water. Yes, bad wa ter, rough water, — great mountains dance up and down all the time. And so big, so far, so far aw... ...d least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes of his childhood. And most pathetic w... ...he east his eyes, leaping the miles be tween range and range and between many ranges, brought up at last against the white peaked Sierras — the main ... ...ems that broke through the main trend of the sea of mountains. To the west the ranges fell away, one behind the other, diminishing and fading into the... ...olding more land and islands than he had ever dreamed of, he was landed on New Georgia, and put to work in the field clearing jungle and cutting cane g... ...ach, and sentenced to a fine of fifteen dollars. Then they were sent back to New Georgia, where the white men knocked seven bells out of them all around...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...