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How to care for and raise beautiful and healthy betta fish! This is not another general fish hobby ebook you come across often. This ebook has valuable information that comes from years of research by many experience experts around the world who share the same interest you and me have........

This is another work by the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who -- before his imprisonment in Siberia -- was trying to decide whether he was E. T. A. Hoffmann or Nikolai Gogol. Polzunkov is an extended anecdote about one Osip Mikhailich Polzunkov who narrates a story of how he tried to pull an April Fools...

Turner's Golden Visions written by Charles Lewis Hind who was a British journalist, writer, editor, art critic, and art historian. This book was published in 1907. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately...

Everything changes for a young schoolgirl in Berlin when Hitler and the Nazis come to power. It suddenly becomes vitally important that her father is Jewish and her mother is Catholic. Religious identity becomes a matter of life and death, and the question is asked: is she Jewish or Christian? In fact, is she even German?

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1848 -1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic modernist painting and a key figure in the revivalist movement. It is ironic, but Viktor, whose name is associated...

Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (1839 — 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki". Many of his historical paintings showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of Academic art.

Fyodor Andreyevich Bronnikov (1827-1902) was a Russian-born history and genre painter who spent most of his life in Italy. He displayed an early affinity for drawing and received his first art lessons from his father, who was a decorative painter. At the age of sixteen, when his father died, he packed...

Alexei Alexeievich Harlamoff (1840–1925) was a Russian painter. Harlamoff became a guest student at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1854. Three years later he was awarded a second class silver medal for a drawing. In 1865 he presented his large scale painting Ananias before the...

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (1848 -1916) was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the best-known paintings in Russia. In his canvases Surikov dealt with many dramatic episodes of Russian history such as the reformation of the church in the mid 17th...

Telma is usually too busy to indulge in the frenetic activities that flying makes her crave when she’s actually working. She has a difficult and demanding job that demands her attention, and a bevy of hot flight attendants to control. A surprise kiss from a regular passenger strikes a match to her...

This little pamphlet looks into a future (the 29th century) and what life is like when there is equality in all things.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route,...

A decent short about a group of married friends, and an encounter they may or may not have had.

This isn't a play or novel itself, but rather a series of short satirical essays on the conventions and cliches of theater. There are essays, for example, on the stage hero, the stage heroine, the stage villain, the stage "adventuress" (read "tramp"), the stage lawyer, etc.