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Alaska is the largest state of the United States of America; occupying the extreme northwestern part of North America and the adjacent islands. In the dialect of the natives first encountered by the Russian explorers, the peninsula was called Al-áy-es-ka, the name having become changed through Alaksa...

This book presents how to conserve energy in advanced years and preserve our beauty. "Old age has been tritely described as a purely relative term; senility is to be recognized in many persons young in years and is often absent in those of late middle, or even of advanced age. There is no time...

“Passions are penchants, inclinations, desires and aversions carried to a certain degree of intensity, combined with an indistinct sensation of pleasure or pain, occasioned or accompanied by some irregular movement of the blood and animal spirits, are what we call passions” According to this definition,...

Galileo Galilei, known as the father of Science, is a famous astronomer, philosopher and mathematician who played an important role in the scientific revolution. He was accused of blasphemy and impiety after his discoveries and reasonings about the solar system. The purpose of this prosecution by...

The history of education in England is a subject of profound interest and of singular importance; for it is intimately associated with all the great crises of the national life, and exhibits, as no other subject can, the effects of the interplay of religion, learning and politics upon the sociological...

The ghost in fact plays in the ideas of early man the same part that guano and phosphates play today in the ideas of the educated scientific farmer... Furthermore, another connection may be shown to exist between plants or trees and ghosts. We know that it is a frequent practice deliberately to put...

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF LIFE INSURANCE. "Among the nations of antiquity, the Romans were the first to make an effort to arrive at a law of mortality. To this they were led indirectly by their highly developed system of jurisprudence. It became necessary at times to fix the value of life-estates,...

As indications of precocity we shall select any manifestations in childhood or youth of an exceptional aptitude and bent corresponding to the special direction of the later development of the genius; in the case of musicians, writers, artists and scientists ...

The history of mankind for thousands of years has been a history of incessant warfare and the new economic and industrial conditions which have made war irrational are not more than about one hundred years old, while the human brain is practically the same old brain of our fathers and forefathers,...

The Lapses of Speech and the Lapses of Consciousness. This book proposes to indicate such of the habits, and particularly of the lapses of speech, as reflect the subconscious processes that participate in its normal functioning. Psychologically, speech is but one of several modes of indicating...

From very early times the art of prolonging life, and the subject of longevity, have engaged the attention of thinkers and essayists; and some may perhaps contend that these topics, admittedly full of interest, have been thoroughly exhausted. It is true that the art in question has long been recognized...

Vegetarianism, as the term is popularly understood at the present time, is a system of living which teaches that the food of man should be derived directly from the plant world. Considered in the light of its history, however, vegetarianism involves something more than a mere dietetic program...

A Study of Effects of Smoking on physical and mental aptitude. The use of tobacco prevails throughout the whole world. Smokers are numbered by hundreds of millions. “As a whole, tobacco is harmless to the mind, but it may have a mischievous influence on the health, and may cause serious...

"If one has not been told what to expect, the first effects of hasheesh pass by unnoticed; these consist of a certain motor and sensor excitability of the spinal cord. There is a twitching in the nape of the neck, the back and the legs, and a shivering that extends over the whole body. It is...