Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 101
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- Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
- The Battle of Stone River (1862-1863)
- Colonization of Palestine - The Unit System (1921)
- A Drop of 4000 Feet
- Edmund Campion, Letter to the Lords of Her Majestie's Privy Council (1580)
- Edward J. Tobin: Good Looking Teachers Get Best Results (1921)
- The Effects of the Weather Upon Death Rate and Crime in India (1884)
- English Animals In Snow
- Executive Order to Eliminate Woke, Anti-Women Words from Arkansas State Government and Respect Women (2023)
- The Geographic Aspect of Culture (1910)
- History of Syphilis (1908)
- Japan's Ultimatum to Germany (1914)
- Murdering English (1921)
- The Present Crisis in China From the Standpoint of a Christian Chinese (1900)
- Proclamation Establishing Eight Hour Workday (1869)
- Proclamation 179—Granting Full Pardon and Amnesty for the Offense of Treason Against the United States During the Late Civil War (1868)
- Property (1792)
- The Puzzle of Mexico in Revolt (1911)
- Thomas A. Edison, Greatest of Inventors (1893)
- Treaty of Shimonoseki Concluding the Sino-Japanese War (1895)
"Of all effects of weather, snow makes the greatest change in animal economy in the countryside, and weeks often pass before the old order is restored." [English Animals in Snow.] Many of the reader-chosen selections in vol. 101 look at disruptions in the status quo. Weather features in A Drop of 4000 feet; Geographic Aspect of Culture; and Effects of Weather Upon Death Rate and Crime in India. The impact of disease is made clear in The History of Syphilis. The disruptive power of technology is shown in Thomas Edison, Greatest of Inventors. Societal and religious strife are examined in Property (1792); Executive Order to Eliminate Woke, Anti-Women Words; Murdering English; Good Looking Teachers Get Best Results; Proclamation Establishing the 8-hour Workday; and Edmund Campion, Letter to Her Majestie's Privy Council. War and its aftermath are the subject of The Present Crisis in China; Treaty of Shimonoseki; Japan's Ultimatum to Germany; Colonization of Palestine; Mexico in Revolt; Battle of Stone River; and Pardon for the Offense of Treason Against the United States During the Late Civil War. Summary by Sue Anderson
Note: "The Treaty of Shimonoseki was co-signed, for Japan, by Itō Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu, and, for China, by Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang.
Note: "The Treaty of Shimonoseki was co-signed, for Japan, by Itō Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu, and, for China, by Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang.
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