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...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...ICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ened arms the cataract that poured in upon the Pit from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota, from the dwindling bins of Illinois and the fast-empt... ... Chicago, but of every city in the Union, exploited him for “stories.” The history of his corner, how he had effected it, its chronology, its re- sult... ... the price of wheat to a dollar and twenty cents, the great flour mills of Minnesota and Wis- consin stopped grinding, and finding a greater profit in... ...on took his taxes, as if by right of birth. Somewhere, in a long-forgotten history of his brief school days, he had come across a phrase that he remem... ...awful—down there, these days. He says that it is the greatest fight in the history of La Salle Street. Has Mr. Jadwin, said any- thing to you? Is he g...

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...cs Series Publication Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... university. 3 Henry David Thoreau Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau THE HISTORY OF THE APPLE-TREE I T IS REMARKABLE how closely the history of the ... ... became orchard-birds, and multiplied more than ever. It was an era in the history of their race. The downy woodpecker found such a savory morsel unde... ... yet been modified by cultiva- tion.” It is found from Western New York to Minnesota and southward. Michaux* says that its ordinary height “is fif- t...

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...Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during 1831. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and attempted to establish that all known ancient ...

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...o look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. The first volume, as well as a portion of the secon... ...d, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually , to advocate “war, pestilence, and f... ..., and famine,” than to act as obstructionist to a war already be- gun. The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable here- after, compared with ... ... had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. These generally knew I had been a captain in...

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...James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama in 1919, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux Klanners at night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where as late as 1963, although African-Ameri...

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...Introduction Body Page [13] Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of the Union Page [13] Chapter 2: The Challenge of Automation Page [33] Chapter 3: The Classless Society Page [42] Chapter 4: The Outsiders Page [46] Chapter 5: Peace and War Page [61] Chapter 6: The Decline of the Unite...

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e through the whole center of the American continent up to Wiscon- sin and Minnesota. To the United States the navigation of the Mississippi was, we m... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...t weakness on one side and pride on the other, is a problem in the world’s history yet to be solved. The most successful child that ever yet has gone ... ...normous wheat-growing districts of the Northwest. St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, is nine hundred miles directly north of St. Louis, the most nort... ...n States of the Union; 116 North America V ol. 1 and the farming lands of Minnesota stretch away again for some hundreds of miles north and west of S...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... side with me in the vote that you seem dissatisfied with. The latter, the history of whose capture with Cassius Clay you well know, had not arrived h... ...alues the evidence of the past. He tells us that at a certain point of our history more than two hun- dred millions of dollars had been applied for to... ..., by way 98 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two of recurring to the history of the past. When was the time to come (he asked) when the States i... ...t States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; also the Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of con- tention, Kansas and Nebraska. Slave... ...ge is employed as in the Ordi- nance of 1787. It directly applied to Iowa, Minnesota, and to the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. Whet... ...ation, could it not have had it as well without as with a repeal? Iowa and Minnesota, to both of which the Missouri restriction applied, had, without ...

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...ectations. But there are a great many unreasonable ones, as I suppose you know--not yours, dear mother, for I am bound to say that you never required of me more than was natural. You see you are reaping your reward: I write to you before I write to any one else....

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... Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Bundle of Letters by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Bundle of Letters by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...ung woman—a girl, a female, I don’t know what to call her—from Vermont, or Minnesota, or some such place. This young woman is the most extraordinary s... ...nowledge—and you know what my knowledge is—unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evoluti...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...eptember 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United States.The nation was unprepared. How did this happen... ...s report as a foundation for a better under- standing of a landmark in the history of our nation. We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal ... ...ational Guard C- 130H cargo aircraft, which had just taken off en route to Minnesota, to iden- “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 25 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM... ...crash into the Penta- gon 27 minutes earlier. It had resumed its flight to Minnesota and saw the smoke from the crash of United 93, less than two minu... ...thousands of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and s... ...ight sim- ulator training at Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota, and by the end of the month, he had received a simulator schedul...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...himself,) Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 12 TO T HEE O LD C AUSE... ...n to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equ... ...y up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless hu... ...round a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet, Earth’s modern wonder, history’s seven outstripping, High rising tier on tier with glass and iro... ...Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then, To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;) Then to Ohio and I...