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Observ. XX.

In Micrographia

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Robert Hooke

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…

38 - Sinuses of Dura Mater, Ophthalmic Veins, Emissary Veins

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 3 (Gray's Anatomy)

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Henry Gray

Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…

Chapter 4

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

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Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

How to Know a Flatterer From a Friend, part 3

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

09 - Book fifth, The Games of the Fleet, part 1

In The Aeneid, prose translation

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Virgil

The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas,…

The Mask of the Red Death

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 011

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Edgar Allan Poe

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Luella Miller

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 010

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Mary E Wilkins Freeman and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The War with Persia and Carthage

In Hellenic History

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George Willis Botsford

"The purpose of this volume is to present in brief scope the evolution of Greek civilization a culture simple in its essential unity, a…

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