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Niagara Falls are three waterfalls on the border between the United States and Canada. "Any citizen of New York or Ontario may justly take a pride in the magnificent industrial development building up aboutNiagara Falls, even though it is all at the cost of the beauty...
Geographically, Panama is the connecting link between South and Central America. This book originally published under the title “Panama: past and present”; tells the history of Panama and its development. “A hundred thousand years ago, when the Gulf of Mexico...
"In the year 1802, when Napoleon was first consul, there arrived in Paris two artisans of Poitiers. One of these men, Jean Alexandre, had invented a rudimentary form of the electric telegraph, and, with his friend Beauvais, he had left the little country town full of...
Cyrus the great was conqueror and founder of the Persian and Medes empire. In 538 Cyrus, favored by a revolt of some Persian tribes, advanced on Babylon from the southeast, and, after giving battle to the army of Akkad, took Sippona and lastly Babylon without fighting....
Thus it was that leather became more and more an article of general use, and thus it was that by the time Columbus started on his hazardous voyages there had already grown up a considerable industry in England, France, Spain, Germany, and Russia. But despite all this...
This book traces the origin and development of Chinese empire and exposes the problem of religion in the history of China. "The question of the origin of the Chinese has been discussed by several foreign savants: Gust. Schlegel made a comparison between the primitive...
This book presents Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious and The Psychological Analysis of Dreams.
"The name Nihon ("Japan") seems to have been first officially employed by the Japanese government in A.D. 670. Before that time, the usual native designation of the country was Yamato, properly the name of one of the central provinces...
Gold was known by the Indians to exist in the United States long before the white people discovered it, but unlike the Indians of Mexico, the more northern natives did not make elaborate use of it, and it did not seriously attract the attention of the settlers until...
The Philippine Islands were discovered by Magellan in March 1521. This book presents the Peopling, the Agriculture and Industrialization of the Philippines. "Since the days when the first European navigators entered the South Sea, the dispute over the source and ethnic...
The story of the birth and evolution of the hospital is a record of the conquest of barbarism by civilization and of the triumph of Christian altruism over the selfishness of the pagan ideal. The history of American hospitals begins with the hospital erected by …...
"- The History of Ireland; - Commercial History of Ireland; - Historical Monuments of Ireland; - Irish Antiquities; - National Language; - Ireland's People, Lords, Gentry, Commonalty; - Irish Music and Poetry; - The Songs of Ireland ; - Irish Scenery ; - A Chronology...
So great a change ensued in experimental chemistry, and in theory and nomenclature, and such a mass of facts was coordinated and explained by Lavoisier that he has been justly called "the father of modern chemistry." He was the first to explain definitely, the formation...
Louis Pastor was a distinguished French chemist and author of researches in microbial fermentation. He is considered as one of the great scientists of the world mainly for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases.
This book presents (with illustrations) some of the localities in England and France where Monuments of the Late Stone and Bronze Ages have been found.
This book presents the origin and development of writing, and the methods of producing books before our era.
Rome occupies a unique position in the history of the world. The whole Mediterranean basin was at one time merely a Roman lake, and the adjacent countries were Roman in letters, law, religion and the practice of war. Roman roads crossed the continents east and west and...
Rousseau is, from any moral or social or national point of view, a force of much more disintegrating power than Nietzsche can ever be. And he is this for the very reason that his sensual and sentimental nature dominates him so completely. (John Cowper Powys) This...
“Everybody looks for happiness without knowing where to find it; like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.” (Voltaire) This collection aimed to present the works, thoughts and life of the enlightenment philosophers and writers who...
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