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Memories of Old Montana

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Con Price

Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

Preface

In Fifty Years Ago

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Walter Besant

Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a prolific novelist and historian. He wrote Fifty Years Ago to present a picture of life, manners, and soc…

Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

In Time Telling Through the Ages

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Harry Chase Brearley

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock throug…

Sir Wilfrid Laurier - On the Death of Queen Victoria

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III

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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

Our Own Sector

In Our Army at the Front

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Heywood Broun

During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by nota…

Franklin Pierce, December 5, 1853, part 1

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1849 - 1856)

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Millard Fillmore

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Abraham Lincoln, December 3, 1861

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1861 - 1868)

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Abraham Lincoln

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…