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High-Res Public Domain Children’s Images — Public Domain High Resolution Images “Imagine yourselves, my dear readers, seated on a wild winter night in a Silesian hut in the Riesengebirge, several thousand feet higher than the surrounding valleys, with snow, fathoms deep, everywhere. The wild storm rages through the desolate mountains. Within, however, everything is warm and comfortable, and as the matrons and maidens busily spin, in fancy, you can listen with pleasure to their tales of the mighty Mountain Lord.” How’s that for a set up? Liber Libræ sub figura XXX sub figura XXX The Book of the Balance 0. Learn first - Oh thou who aspirest unto our ancient Order!

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RMC - Collections > Rare Book & Manuscript Collections > European History & Culture > The Rhaeto-Romance Collection The Rhaeto-Romance Collection, like the Fiske Icelandic Collection and the Dante and Petrarch collections, is a bequest of Daniel Willard Fiske, Cornell's first university librarian and a singularly energetic book collector. The term Rhaeto-Romance describes a group of closely related dialects rather than a coalesced, national language. The dialect caught the interest of Willard Fiske while he was on an expedition to the baths of Tarasp in the Lower Engadine.

Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press The University of California Press e-books collection holds books published by UCP (and a select few printed by other academic presses) between 1982-2004. The general public currently has access to 770 books through this initiative. The collection is dynamic, with new titles being added over time. Readers looking to see what the collection holds can browse by subject. Books Available Books (and Other Materials) The following two books are immediately available: Theomatics II By Del Washburn Published by Scarborough House UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA 4720 Boston Way Lanham, Maryland 20706 Phone: (301)459-8696 Theomatics II is actually two books in one.

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