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In the late Middle Ages, Orontius grows up in poverty in a peasant family. After the sudden death of his mother, his father entrusts him to the vagabond Eberlein to protect him from hunger and hardship. The only condition is that Eberlein and his troupe take Orontius to...
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J. K. Rowling has studied Classics (/Greek and Roman Studies) and this is a short essay on two ancient motifs of "Harry Potter": The motif of the anti-philosopher - referring to Plato's "Phaedo" (the body-loving soul and the fear of death) - and the motif of the whole -...
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This is a hodgepodge of a disordered, systematically arranged collection of the Polish nobility. On these pages you will find out everything about: descent, aristocracy, aristocratic literature, aristocratic name endings, aristocratic association, genealogy,...
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The GDR in the seventies. Many leading politicians live in luxury.The Stasi and the police with the appropriate facilities ensure fear, terror and violence, worse than the inquisition in the middle Ages. Denunciation of people among one another flourishes in all colors,...
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For it is vain and foolish to talk of Knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people...
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Every thinking corporeal living being of the higher spiritual order on habitable planets, including the people from planet earth, determine for themselves what and how much they want to own and how they decide, think and act, also practically to realize. This happens...
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Warum gibt es die Spezies Mensch? Ist den Männern, Frauen und Kindern aus dieser Spezies möglicherweise eine bestimmte Aufgabe im Leben zugedacht? Was ist richtig oder falsch, gut oder böse? Wie sollen sie leben? Und was geschieht nach ihrem körperlichen Tod? Der...
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An essay about aspects of Freemasonry and Ancient Mystery Cults in "Harry Potter". Table of contents:
I. The Great Hall of Hogwarts and its Freemason traditions
II. The Triwizard Tournament as the trials of "The Magic Flute"
III. Freemasonry and its dimensions in "The...
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Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.
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This literary journey begins with the German author Alfred Andersch and ends with film director Fred Zinnemann. On the way, there will be glimpses of selected works by Theodor Fontane, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann and Joanne K. Rowling. The chapters centre around and...
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In this illustrated Young Adult novel, Agent C2C, the millennial-aged, renowned chemistry professor and co-founder of the revolutionary Cradle to Cradle (C2C) design concept, his two adventurous American co-fighters and the U.S. President’s daughter have to save the...
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The Magical Land of Noom by John Barton Gruelle (Johnny Gruelle) was first published in 1922.
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My reader. Perhaps you have had the good fortune to visit Egypt! If such be the case, you have undoubtedly stood among the giant columns of the Temple to the Sun-god Amen in the Northern Apt (Karnak). You have marveled at the ever changing colors which light up the...
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We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together-we others dwelling beyond the Ditch, in the outer darkness of the Mofussil. There are no such things as commissioners and heads of departments in the world, and there is only one city in India. Bombay is too green, too...
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles...
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Having been for many years an ardent and a devoted student of Shakespeare, I discovered long ago that there was no adequate book on the Elizabethan garden and the condition of horticulture in Shakespeare's time. Every Shakespeare student knows how frequently and with...
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In Florence the guild of dyers had their shops hard by the Canonica of Orsanmichele. The houses were disfigured by every sort of shed, outhouse, and projection on crooked wooden supports; tiled roofs leaned so close to each other as almost to shut out the sky, and the...
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About the author: Eugen von Boros actually: Ludwig von Jeney was born on January 25, 1907 in Budapest. He studied law and economics in Munich and Hamburg and, after a short period as a writer, devoted himself to working on his Vatta estate in Hungary at the Hamburg...
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THE first glimmering of dawn rested on Waipio Valley. The moi kane , his great nobles and chief officers of state, his personal attendants, his guards, heralds, priests, diviners, bards, story-tellers, dancers, and buffoons, the whole aialo , even to the lowest menials...
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"Burning Daylight" by Jack London scored record sales immediately after its initial release. The story is inspired by the experiences that London made in its time as a prospector on the Yukon. Typical of London is that his protagonists often depict characteristics of...
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