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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell Books ...

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...rprints Fingerprints were first used to identify criminals in Bengal, India in the 1890s. The London Metropolitan Police introduced them in 1901. T...

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...ject described a film project involving the history of postcards from the 1890s to 1960s, which on the surface appears to involve many works that ar...

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...ject described a film project involving the history of postcards from the 1890s to 1960s, which on the surface appears to involve many works that ar...

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...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book-...

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...litical events of the time, yet are recast with new political meaning by their inclusion in this collection and in light of politi- cal events of the 1890s. Examples include three mele lamenting the cholera epidemic and a pair of honorific songs for Kalakaua, the brother and predecessor of Queen Lili uokalani. Some of the texts lauding the heroics of Robert Wilcox are a...

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...more than 130 oral history interviews that have been conducted by Kepa Maly over the last twenty-eight years. The interviewees were born between the 1890s to 1950s, and all shared personal knowledge—either in native beliefs, traditions, customs and practices; the locations of, and types of fish caught; or about the changing the conditions of the resources—in Hawaiian fish...

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...nd the steel guitar, believed to have been invented by a Hawaiian in the 1890s. There is hula for amusement, hula ho‘onanā, which imitates the mov...

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... pages, and much fatter Sunday editions became the print sensation of the 1890s. Selling advertising earned publishers extraordinary profits that le...

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... pages, and much fatter Sunday editions became the print sensation of the 1890s. Selling advertising earned publishers extraordinary profits that le...

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...ople on either side can have thought of reform as a realistic option." During the 1890s, IMRO's main sources of income were voluntary (and later, ...

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...ject described a film project involving the history of postcards from the 1890s to 1960s, which on the surface appears to involve many works that ar...

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...lly fulfilled have no need for the pornographic. I have heard that in the 1890s if a man saw a woman‘s ankle protrude from her long dress he got exc...

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...Literary critics see Arthur Machen’s works as a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement of the 1890s, bearing direct comparison to the themes found in contemporary works like Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Whit...

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...rell, which is also the name of a character in the novel. For his role in the Sontag and Evans gang which robbed the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, Morrell spent fourteen years in California prisons (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London's Beauty Ranch....

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...a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the classic period: how they thought, wrote, and organised their lives and loves. Although it dates from the 1890s, there is very little about it that has dated. To its author’s credit, the subject of “Greek love” is dealt with in a sane and factual context - despite the judicial assassination of Oscar Wilde going on in the backgrou...

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...eresting argument especially as to the profitability of wars by showing how the United States, first, emerged as an imperial and a world power in the 1890s; then as the only world’s superpower after World War II. Finally, chapter seven takes a proactive approach by peering into the future of armed conflict, which is likely to take place in new environments: Cyberspace, the...

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...…………………………...200 Profitability of Wars as an Obstacle to World Peace…………………………………….206 How the U.S. Emerged as an Imperial and a World Power in the 1890s……….209 How the U.S. Emerged as the Only World’s Superpower After World War II…………………………………………………………….211 CHAPTER 7: The Future of Armed Conflict…………………………...……………………………………………214 The Doomsday Clock………....………………………….…...