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Seizou graduated from high school and becomes an elementary school teacher. He got tuberculosis and died young.
Arthur Zapp war ein „Vielschreiber“, der zu seinen Lebzeiten sehr bekannt war und auch viel gelesen wurde. Eine gewisse Trivialität ist seinen Werken nicht abzusprechen.
Im vorliegenden Roman beschreibt Zapp detailliert und spannend die Ermittlungs- und Auflkärungsarbeiten zur Aushebung eines Falschmünzerringes.
Die Möglichkeiten der Kriminalpolizei waren um die Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert entsprechenden dem damaligen technischen Entwicklungsstand sehr beschränkt.
Observation von Personen und Objekten, Vernehmung von Straftätern, Analyse von Strafprozessakten und der Einsatz verdeckter Ermittle...
By J. Erskine Clarke, M.A.
CRUISERS IN THE CLOUDS.
In the chimney corner of a cottage in Avignon, a man sat one day watching the smoke as it rose in changing clouds from the smouldering embers to the sooty cavern above, and if those who did not know him had supposed from his attitude that he was a most idle person, they would have been very far from the truth. It was in the days when the combined fleets of Europe were thundering with cannon on the rocky walls of Gibraltar, in the hope of driving the English out, and, the long effort having proved in vain, Joseph Montgolfier, of whom we have spoken, fell to wondering, as he sat by the fire, how the great task could be a...
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá’u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith. This work is written partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. The Hidden Words is written in the form of a collection of short utterances, 71 in Arabic and 82 in Persian, in which Bahá’u'lláh claims to have taken the basic essence of certain spiritual truths and written them in brief form. Bahá’ís are advised by `Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of Bahá’u'lláh to read them every day and every night and to implement its latent wisdom into their daily lives. He also said that “The Hidden Words is a treasury of divine mysteries” and that when one ponders its contents, “the d...
Premier de l’an, jour si triste pour les uns, si beau pour les autres, je vais essayer d’esquisser ta physionomie ; et je te traiterai aussi bien que possible. Je te redoute trop, moi qui suis une de tes victimes ordinaires, pour ne pas me montrer indulgent envers toi !
Je ne te demande q’une chose, c’est qu’il te plaise de me rendre la pareille.
Cher lecteur, puisse mon cadeau du jour de l’an vous plaire !
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First Day of the Year, so sad to some, so lovely to others, I shall attempt to portray you ; and I shall be as gentle as can be. I, one of your usual victims, fear you too much not to be lenient with you!
I onl...
Dit is het tweede van zes boeken over Dik Trom, of eigenlijk in dit boek de zoon van Dik Trom, die in sommige gevallen het tegenovergestelde van zijn vader is, maar in de meeste gevallen precies hetzelfde.
This is the second of six books about Dik Trom, or in this book Dik Trom’s son, who is in a few ways the opposite of his father, but in most ways exactly the same.
The Turmoil is the first novel in the ‘Growth’ trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version based on volume 2, also titled “The Magnificent Ambersons.”
The trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes...