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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ... SAPPHO’S JOURNAL Sappho, walking on her island beach, pauses by a broken amphora: With one foot, she nudges the... ... 9 Villa Poseidon, Mytilene 642 B.C. he great storm beats across the island, rattling the olive and the cypress, piling the surf on the beach... ...er, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see ... ... Romans have crucified as many as two thousand men at one time because of religious dedication. Al- most every single one of us has witnessed a cruci... ...g pair, well-trained, handsomely har- nessed. My driver is a stalwart from Rhode Island; he says he used to work in a cotton mill; now, he looks forw...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...583 The Undead and Human Laughter Pg 1585 The Undead and Vlad Pg 1587 The Religious Sale of Indulgences Pg 1589 Darwin’s Natural Selection and ... ...e constant of the speed of light as a holy Tabernacle, as some kind of sacred religious icon. The only reason that the speed of light is ‘constant’... ...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...e is jealously guarded and goes to the grave with them. To be later put into museums. And centuries later…marveled at… as examples of lost artisans... ...fe-energy poured into making any artefact, the more it is revered and put into museums. That is also why we obsess and revere old, dead artefacts th... ...ca: stolen from the German Boers, and the Dutch. The white supremacist nation Rhodesia; created out of the pure greed of one man: Cecil Rhodes…, whi... ...ar history of tectonic plate migration and activity… Just so the residents of Rhode Island would know where the earth they own… originally came from...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? Th...

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...nd made a broad-chested and intelligent man of every Bert Smallways in the islands, had they given the resources they spent in war material to the mak... ...eak English!” “Mother was English—went to school in England. After- wards, Rhodes scholar. German none the less for that. De- tailed for the present, ... ...y’re rotten things. I’ve been trying them for a friend.” “Right O!” The ex-Rhodes scholar whisked out of the room and reap- peared with a considerable... ...ts. It was a sprawl of undistinguished popula- tion. There were, no doubt, museums and town halls and even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical ce... ...d even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical centres of mu- nicipal and religious organisation in this confusion; but Bert could not see them, they... ...k and adventurous with private war. It was the peculiar shape of Manhattan Island, pressed in by arms of the sea on either side, and incapable of comf... ...d territory, strange fed- erations and brotherhoods form and dissolve, and religious fanaticisms begotten of despair gleam in famine-bright eyes. It i...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it be expec... ...now go over that ques- tion again. I then divided the inhabitants of those islands into three classes—the white, the black, and the colored, taking a ... ... the unanimous consent of the States present.”* Twelve States were present—Rhode Is- land apparently having had no representative on the oc- casion—on... ...- self. Where would be the State sovereignty and indi- vidual existence of Rhode Island and Delaware, unless they could maintain, in at least one Hous... ...eneficial in its results, than either statesmanship, professional ability, religious teach- ing, or commerce. And in no part of its national career ha... ... education of the people. We certainly do not expect it to make the people religious, or to keep them honest. And if the Americans with their form of ...

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

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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