Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential representative of Romantic philosophy. Many consider him the last great polymath. After he died in 1859, the scientific community began to fragment into different disciplines, each...

Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden, by French and Spanish authors of various eras. - Summary by David Weles....

Twenty stories were originally published in Household and All Year magazine's Christmas editions. Some reports have little to no holiday cheer, instead showing Dickens' anger at his day's social and economic injustice. Some stories are written in collaboration with other authors. The book's editors...

Some states that rebelled against the federal government in the American Civil War issued statements from emerging government agencies explaining why they were trying to secede. Below are the proclamations made by South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, and Georgia in 1860 and 1861. - Summary...

This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines such as the...

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. François-Joseph Fétis (1784 – 1871) was a Belgian musicologist,...

As simple and unpretentious as Francis d'Assisi put it, but full of modern sophistication and humor, this little work will bring joy and refreshment to all who want to escape from the drudgery of work. Moreover, it is one of the most subtle and haunting studies of canine psychology ever written -...

"These memoirs [1911] were written mainly for Americans and appeared in the New York Tribune every Sunday, every Sunday... They dealt mainly with people of special importance and status that I met in America and Europe and events of which I am personally aware. No attempt is made to cover one...

John L. Ransom, the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, was a Confederate prisoner at the notorious Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia, during the American Civil War. Here is his diary, published a few years after the end of the Civil War. Pages 193 to 301 contain...

Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. It is said that he is the prototype of Hercule Poirot written by Agatha Christie and the villain of Sherlock Holmes written by Conan Doyle. The novella The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel (1917) was Harnow's second crime novel. Did the robbery/murder...