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World’s Story Vol VI Russia and the Balkans — 136 episodes

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Historical Tales, Volume VIII Russian-Charles Morris

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Tudor and Stuart Love Songs-John Potter Briscoe

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Address to Free Colored Americans-An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

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Historical Tales, Vol VI French-Charles Morris

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History of Standard Oil Volume 2-Ida M. Tarbell

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Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives-Various

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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827-Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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Damn! A Book of Calumny-H. L. Mencken

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Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa-Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cry From An Indian Wife-E. Pauline Johnson

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 23)-Thomas Babington Macaulay

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October and Other Poems-Robert Bridges

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History of the United States, Vol. VII-Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 20)-Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 8, October 1906-Various

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)-Various

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Notes of An East Coast Naturalist-Arthur Henry Patterson

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Tree of Appomattox-Joseph A. Altsheler

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Journal of John Woolman-John Woolman

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He and I-James Whitcomb Riley

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Poems of American History, The Colonial Era-Various

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Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways-Charles Morris

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Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England-Charles Morris

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Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career-Juliet Bredon

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112 - A Turkish ''What for '' by Demetra Vaka

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111 - Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari by Albert Aublet French artist 1851 painting p 574

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110 - The dancing dervishes by Julia Pardoe

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109 - ''Protestant bread'' by Cyrus Hamlin D D

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108 - Choosing a wife for the son by Lucy M J Garnett

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107 - The first telegraph in Turkey 1854 by Sir J William Whittall

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106 - Turkey Part V Stories of Turkish life and customs Historical note

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105 - A Turkish friendship eighteenth century by Cheliby Yorgaki

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104 - Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja

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103 - ''The lamb bolted'' a legend of Turkish justice

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102 - Turkey Part IV Turkish stories Historical note

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101 - The silent army 1909 by Francis McCullagh

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100 - ''The House of Fear'' 1908 by Francis McCullagh

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099 - The muezzin by Jean Leon Gerome French artist 1824-1904 painting p 528

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098 - The last of the Janizaries 1826 by Maurus Jokai

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097 - Turkey Part III The sick man of Europe Historical note

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096 - Dining with the Sultana 1718 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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095 - A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent sixteenth century translated from a Genoese letter

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094 - The surrender of Rhodes 1522 by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

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093 - The little Janizary about 1453 by James M Ludlow

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092 - The tribute of children by Anonymous

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091 - Turkey Part II Turkey at the height of her power Historical note

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090 - The fall of Constantinople 1453 by Edward Gibbon

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089 - Scanderbeg about 1450 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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088 - The coming of the comet 1402 by Maurus Jokai

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087 - Constantinople a city built to order fourth century by Edward Gibbon

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086 - Turkey Part I To the capture of Constantinople Historical note

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085 - The flight from Lule-Burgas 1912 by Bernard Grant

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084 - The siege of Adrianople 1912 by Philip Gibbs

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083 - Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks by Jaroslav Cermak Bohemian artist

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082 - An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks 1907 by Arthur D Howden Smith

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081 - Montenegro by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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080 - Marko and the Turks fifteenth century an old Servian ballad

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079 - The Balkan States Historical note

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078 - A Csikos race by Alexander Wagner Hungarian artist 1838 painting p 408

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077 - Two Magyar poems

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076 - Stories of the gypsies

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075 - The legend of St Kummerniss by Francois Joseph Heim French artist 1787-1865 painting p 400

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074 - St Kummerniss a legend of the Tyrol

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073 - The poor man and the king of the crows a Magyar folk-tale retold by Jeremiah Curtin

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072 - The dog and the wolf a Bohemian folk-tale retold by Theodor Vernaleken

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071 - Austria-Hungary Part V Stories and poems of Bohemia Hungary and the Tyrol Historical note

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070 - The salt mines of Wieliczka 1850 by Bayard Taylor

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069 - Kossuth's farewell 1849

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068 - The unlucky weathercock 1849 by Maurus Jokai

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067 - After the battle of Szolnok 1849 by Maurus Jokai

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066 - Austria-Hungary Part IV The nineteenth century Historical note

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065 - Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers by Franz von Defregger Austrian painter 1835 painti

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064 - How the French honored Joseph Haydn 1805 by ''Louisa Muhlbach'' Klara M Mundt

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063 - The battle of Austerlitz 1805 by John S C Abbott

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062 - Hohenlinden 1800 by Thomas Campbell

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061 - The command of Maria Theresa by John S C Abbott

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060 - How Maria Theresa of Austria became King 1740 by John S C Abbott

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059 - Austria-Hungary Part III From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon Historical note

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058 - How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks 1683 by John S C Abbott

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057 - Wallenstein and the cuirassiers 1634 by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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056 - Wallenstein the deposed general 1630 by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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055 - The devastation of St Vitus's church 1619-1620 by Marie Hay

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054 - Austria-Hungary Part II The religious wars of the seventeenth century Historical note

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053 - The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker German artist

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052 - A funeral menu of the sixteenth century 1509 from the old chronicles

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051 - The deliverance of Prague 1420 by E H Gillett

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050 - How Naumburg was saved by Jaroslav Cermak Bohemian artist - 1878 painting p 270

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049 - Stories of Rudolf founder of the house of Hapsburg thirteenth century by William Coxe

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048 - How Rudolf the First became Emperor 1273 by John S C Abbott

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047 - The coming of the Tartars 1240 by Louis Felbermann

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046 - Austria-Hungary Part I From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation Historical note

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045 - The fair of Nijni-Novgorod by Edna Dean Proctor

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044 - A little Jewish girl in Russia by Mary Antin

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043 - The races on the Neva river 1870 by Theophile Gautier

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042 - Russia Part VIII Life in modern Russia Historical note

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041 - Coaling at sea 1905 by Commander Vladimir Semenoff of the Imperial Russian Navy

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040 - The capture of a redoubt an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagi

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039 - The taking of the village an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Gars

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038 - The emancipation of the serfs 1861 by Hezekiah Butterworth

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037 - The coronation of Alexander II 1855 by Count von Moltke

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036 - Russia Part VII A coronation and three wars Historical note

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035 - In a Tartar tent about 1909 by Lindon Bates Jr

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034 - A Kirghis warrior by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin Russia 1842-1904 painting p 186

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033 - On the march to Siberia nineteenth century by Baroness M De Packh

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032 - How pardon was won for an exile 1808 by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin

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031 - Yermak a folk-song

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030 - The conquest of Siberia 1579-1584 by Count Leo Tolstoy

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029 - Russia Part VI Siberia Historical note

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028 - The revolt in Warsaw 1861 by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury French painter 1792-1890 painting p 158

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027 - The division of Poland by Sir Edwin Arnold

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026 - Poland or Russia 1793 by Jane Porter

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025 - The surrender of Kamenyetz 1672 by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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024 - Russia Part V Poland Historical note

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023 - Passage of the Beresina by J H Van Papendrecht painting p 130

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022 - The crossing of the Beresina river 1812 by John S C Abbott

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021 - The burning of Moscow by Louis Adolph Thiers

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020 - Borodino 1812 by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin

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019 - A day with Catherine the Great 1794 by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski

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018 - Russia Part IV From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon Historical note

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017 - A supposed letter from an English architect 1715 by Maurice Baring

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016 - How St Petersburg was built 1703 by John S C Abbott

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015 - A morning with Peter the Great early in the eighteenth century by Dmitri Merejkowski

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014 - Russia Part III Peter the Great Historical note

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013 - The kremlin of Moscow by Bayard Taylor

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012 - The false Czar 1605 by Frances A Shaw

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011 - Life at the Setch fifteenth century by Nikolai V Gogol

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010 - Ivan the Terrible 1533-1584 by Frances A Shaw

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009 - How Russia was freed from the Tartars 1480 by John S C Abbott

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008 - Russia Part II In the days of Ivan the Terrible Historical note

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007 - Vladimir in search of a religion about 988 by John S C Abbott

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006 - The vengeance of Queen Olga about 945 from the chronicle of Nestor

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005 - The country and customs of the Scythians fifth century BC by Herodotus

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004 - The story of iron and the poison water from the Kalevala

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003 - The imp and the crust by Count Leo Tolstoy

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002 - Russia Part I Folk-tales and early history Historical note

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001 - Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille France 1848 p