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From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.The story begins with a collection of artillerymen and war veterans left idle after the end of the American Civil War. The first proposal they come up with for something to do is to start a new war, but their leader, President Barbicane, puts forward a plan to send a projectile to the moon - for scientific purposes.The whole "Gun Club", as this Baltimore society calls itself, bursts into cheers, and soon the rest of the world has become involved in the project.When a French adventurer and two of the club's members more or less demand to go along, it becomes so much more and bigger than just an extra-large cannonball to be launched into space.The novel was Jules Verne's third, following the 1863 debut Five Weeks in a Balloon and the previous year's To the Centre of the Earth. (From Wikipedia).Translated by Louis Mercier.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.The story begins with a collection of artillerymen and war veterans left idle after the end of the American Civil War. The first proposal they come up with for something to do is to start a new war, but their leader, President Barbicane, puts forward a plan to send a projectile to the moon - for scientific purposes.The whole "Gun Club", as this Baltimore society calls itself, bursts into cheers, and soon the rest of the world has become involved in the project.When a French adventurer and two of the club's members more or less demand to go along, it becomes so much more and bigger than just an extra-large cannonball to be launched into space.The novel was Jules Verne's third, following the 1863 debut Five Weeks in a Balloon and the previous year's To the Centre of the Earth. (From Wikipedia).Translated by Louis Mercier.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.The story begins with a collection of artillerymen and war veterans left idle after the end of the American Civil War. The first proposal they come up with for something to do is to start a new war, but their leader, President Barbicane, puts forward a plan to send a projectile to the moon - for scientific purposes.The whole "Gun Club", as this Baltimore society calls itself, bursts into cheers, and soon the rest of the world has become involved in the project.When a French adventurer and two of the club's members more or less demand to go along, it becomes so much more and bigger than just an extra-large cannonball to be launched into space.The novel was Jules Verne's third, following the 1863 debut Five Weeks in a Balloon and the previous year's To the Centre of the Earth. (From Wikipedia).Translated by Louis Mercier.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.The story begins with a collection of artillerymen and war veterans left idle after the end of the American Civil War. The first proposal they come up with for something to do is to start a new war, but their leader, President Barbicane, puts forward a plan to send a projectile to the moon - for scientific purposes.The whole "Gun Club", as this Baltimore society calls itself, bursts into cheers, and soon the rest of the world has become involved in the project.When a French adventurer and two of the club's members more or less demand to go along, it becomes so much more and bigger than just an extra-large cannonball to be launched into space.The novel was Jules Verne's third, following the 1863 debut Five Weeks in a Balloon and the previous year's To the Centre of the Earth. (From Wikipedia).Translated by Louis Mercier.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. The story begins with a collection of artillerymen and war veterans left idle after the end of the American Civil War. The first proposal they come up with for something to do is to start a new war, but their leader, President Barbicane, puts forward a plan to send a projectile to the moon - for scientific purposes.The whole "Gun Club", as this Baltimore society calls itself, bursts into cheers, and soon the rest of the world has become involved in the project.When a French adventurer and two of the club's members more or less demand to go along, it becomes so much more and bigger than just an extra-large cannonball to be launched into space.The novel was Jules Verne's third, following the 1863 debut Five Weeks in a Balloon and the previous year's To the Centre of the Earth. (From Wikipedia).Translated by Louis Mercier.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"The House that Jack Built" is a standard of juvenile literature that delights children and adults alike with the increasingly lengthy sentences, stretched to the breaking point, that make up its narrative. Through a chain of events, beginning with a rodent eating some grain and culminating in a festive wedding, children learn that playing with grammar can be fun! You can read along with this recording here:https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type2035.htmlAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun smoke dissipated, leaving a little crossroads town in Pennsylvania heir to the human tragedy of over 7,000 corpses and 21,000 men suffering wounds. It was a most unnatural disaster.On November 19, the chief executive made the trip to the still-dazed, shot-torn community to deliver, almost as an afterthought (for he was not the keynote speaker), an address that clarified his belief that the Negro race should be liberated from their slavery, and that despite the loss of so much blood and life, the Union should hold to the goal of completing this emancipation.That he knew the eyes of the nation would rest of him was evident; this address was the first speech since his inauguration that he prepared in advance. But these carefully crafted words - only 269 of them - became a vital part of our nation's identity, and are a signature to the bedrock of our beliefs.THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESSFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.—Abraham LincolnAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety of harrowing circumstances. Using their knowledge of Morse code, the science of telegraphs, and the operation of railroads, the boys stir in native resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and when the occasion demands it, raw courage - to effect rescues, thwart thieves, and solve mysteries. If Tom Swift had lived in the nineteenth century, he could not have had more exciting escapades! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety of harrowing circumstances. Using their knowledge of Morse code, the science of telegraphs, and the operation of railroads, the boys stir in native resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and when the occasion demands it, raw courage - to effect rescues, thwart thieves, and solve mysteries. If Tom Swift had lived in the nineteenth century, he could not have had more exciting escapades! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety of harrowing circumstances. Using their knowledge of Morse code, the science of telegraphs, and the operation of railroads, the boys stir in native resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and when the occasion demands it, raw courage - to effect rescues, thwart thieves, and solve mysteries. If Tom Swift had lived in the nineteenth century, he could not have had more exciting escapades! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy