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Excerpt from Supplement to the Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, From July 22, 1878, to the Jubilee, June 20, 1887Mdlle. Dodu decorated with the Legion of Honour in consideration of dexterous telegraphic service rendered to her country during the war with Germany.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from The Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, From the Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1837Billiard match in St. James's Hall be tween Cook, jun., and Roberts, sen., the latter receiving a start of 200 in Cook won with an unfinished break of 268, including no less than 78 spot strokes, which his opponent had been the chief means of introducing and popularizing.The Versailles army captur...

Excerpt from The Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, From the Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1837Billiard match in St. James's Hall be tween Cook, jun., and Roberts, sen., the latter receiving a start of 200 in Cook won with an unfinished break of 268, including no less than 78 spot strokes, which his opponent had been the chief means of introducing and popularizing.The Versailles army captur...

The West of Scotland in History - Being brief notes concerning events, family traditions, topography, and institutions is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of histo...

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Excerpt from The Book of Dumbartonshire, Vol. 1: A History of the County, Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of Families, and Notices of Industries, Carried on in the Lennox DistrictIn addition to the wide sources of information previously accessible to the historian, local, family, and State papers have lately been brought to light in great abundance, and many of them are of supreme interest to all concerned, however slightly, with Dumbarto...

Excerpt from The Book of Dumbartonshire, Vol. 2: A History of the County, Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of Families, and Notices of Industries, Carried on in the Lennox DistrictSee vol. I. P. 58-9. Vol. I. P. 130-4. Maldouen, third Earl of Lennox, had Vol. I. P. 113, 151, 169, 238, 240, 258. Resigned the Castle to King Alexander ll.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Supplement to the Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, , Home and Foreign, From March 20, 1874, to the Occupation of CyprusMurder and suicide at Plymouth, a retired builder, named Thomas, first cutting his wife's throat and then his own, while waiting in a solicitor's office to settle details of a deed of separation.A labourer named Poirier executed at Chartres for a series of crimes known as the Limours ...

Excerpt from Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, From February 28, 1871 to March 19, 1874Feb. 24. - Earl Granville, on the part of her Majesty's Government, endeavours to obtain some modification in favour of France of the war indemnity of six milliards of francs said to be demanded by Prussia. Government, he wrote, felt the difficulties which arise from their ignorance of the offers made on the sid...

Excerpt from The Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, From the Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1837, to the Peace of Versailles, February 28, 1871With the Index renewed care has been taken. It has not only been extended, as was necessary by the introduction of additional matter into the text, but the plan has been so far improved upon as to permit it to be readily used for ordinary historical a...

Excerpt from The West of Scotland in History: Being Brief Notes Concerning Events, Family Traditions, Topography, and InstitutionsPrefatory matter, or Fore-words, as now sometimes used by scholars, better befits the language of explanation than apology. Over two Centuries since a famous Episcopal Puritan, Archbishop Tillotson by designation, wrote of his once popular Sermons, I shall neither trouble the reader, nor myself, with any apology for...

Excerpt from The Book of Scotsmen: Eminent for Achievements in Arms and Arts, Church and State, Law, Legislation, and Literature, Commerce, Science, Travel, and PhilanthropyAbercrombie, John, Horticultural author. Born near Edinburgh, proceeded to London, where he obtained employment in the royal gardens.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is...