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Twelve articles debating pros and cons for using phrenology as a forensic tool.
All Hopi priests are very solicitous that sketches of the Patki altar in the Soyaluna should not be shown to Tewa men or women, and the Tewa men begged me to keep silent regarding their altars while conversing with the Walpi chiefs. There is a very strict taboo between the two peoples at the time of the Winter Solstice ceremony, which is more rigid than at other times.
Secrets of the White House... This one won't be on the History Channel!
This is probably the only study into the Aphrodite statue take from Europe and brought to the private estate of the Rockefellers, by John D. Rockefeller.
The study of the History of Chemistry as an art, or as a science, is one which possesses peculiar fascination for its votaries. It has been the subject of deep research and much discussion, much has been written upon the subject, and many theories have been broached to account for its origin.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercises thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the rights of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Though the topics and themes are much the same as American erotica, the British use of English adds a luster to the stories, missing from the vulgar used in America. Intriguingly, this story could easily have some basis in fact, as historically 'wicked Uncle Gus' Augustus Edward Jessup is known to have exchanged letters with Lady Maude Bowes-Lyon, whose brother was the father of Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
The lady mystic traces the progress of the soul.
Spagyric Preparations for curing disease and conservation of health. Some of the rarest and most valuable secrets of the Ancient Medical and Hermetic Philosophy.
How many of these books and manuscripts were denounced, banned, cursed, no doubt burned and
shredded-and last but not least, lost (and conveniently forgotten) for more than a thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book of Jasher has found its way back into circulation.
What was courting like in early America? Bundling may have been the great past-time for those early lovers.
U. S. Statesman John Calhoun was a strict constitutionalist and free trade policy proponent. This is sort of a manifesto of his ideas for a new political party.
In his letter on religion in politics, President Roosevelt takes the position, I believe, that we may look forward to the day when a Catholic, for instance, may be nominated and elected to the presidency of the United States of America. He also intimates that to refuse to vote for a Catholic on account of his religion would be bigotry!
A bit of romantic fiction by the famed author, Elinor Glyn, from 1903, with proverbs and meanings for the thinking mind.
The student of our early literature and language is indebted to the zeal of Sir Thomas Phillipps, for the discovery of the following interesting Fragment, which appears to have formed part of a volume that contained
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