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Chicken Farm

Chicken Farm

by Ross Rocklynne

Just in from a long haul searching for asteroid juncture points, Harvey entered the lobby of the Hotel de Mars and went straight to the registration desk. The woman at the desk, who was blond, and blue-eyed, and inclining to chubbiness, looked at him, smiled. The smile was of such quality that Harvey's singed brown face set into a mold of utter att..

Dante and the early astronomers

Dante and the early astronomers

by Mary Acworth Orr

Dante’s astronomy, therefore, is of wide and deep significance. To study its history is to learn a chapter in the development of the human intellect; to see the universe with his eyes is to know how it appeared, not only to his contemporaries but to men in many lands and many centuries. The system of Ptolemy was already a thousand years old when Da..

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose

by Willis John Abbott

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose written by Willis J. Abbott is a  complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world-famous canal—the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time.Panama. They say the word means “a place of many fishes,” but there is some dissension about the exact deriv..

Planet in Reverse

Planet in Reverse

by Henry Guth

Darrel Bond allowed himself a grin. The fleet admiral had warned him against straying off the freight lanes. Had, in fact, threatened to break him down to a button-pusher if he did it again. That was a laugh! Button-pusher! What was he now, if not a button-pusher?In the old days, space piloting had been something—a thrill and a challenge. But now—b..

Roman Stoicism

Roman Stoicism

by E. Vernon Arnold

This book is the outcome of a course of lectures delivered by me in successive years to Latin Honours students in accordance with the regulations of the University of Wales. It is therefore primarily intended for the assistance of classical students; but it may perhaps appeal in its present form to a somewhat wider circle.At the time that the book ..

The Origin of the Mound Builders

The Origin of the Mound Builders

by Alfred Oscar Coffin

Let any traveler start from Wisconsin and traverse the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf of Mexico, and cross the country from the Alleghenies to the Western Plateau, and throughout his course he will find thousands of mounds of earth with a conical or pyramidal apex, and containing within their interior relics of human remains and inventions.When a t..

Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions

Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions

by Henry Alford

The Scribes were the guardians of the law, and its readers and expounders to the people.  It is related of Ezra, that he was “a ready scribe in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given: he had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”  But in exercising thi..

Christian Literature

Christian Literature

by John Stoughton

The chapter before us is plainly a supplement to the main history.  St. John concluded that history under a deep conviction that it was far from a full account of his Master’s wonderful ministry.  “Many other signs,” said he, “truly did Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.”  But in this supplem..