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I had some dis-position to be a scholar, and was resolved at least to know my letters: but the master of the workhouse put...

We had but an indifferent passage, for being all confined in the hold, more than a hundred of our people died for want of...

“The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore he knew that I understood my business well, but that I shammed...

Ups and downs When the Second Constitution was promulgated in 1908 at the joint instigation of the Young Turks and the Committee of Union and...

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov, known as Gorky, which signifies “bitter,” was born at Nijni Novgorod in 1868. He was orphaned at nine, and...