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This briefly annotated list of prosecutions under war statutes and cases of mob violence due to the war was originally published in 1919. This list of cases involving the rights of free speech, free press and peaceful assemblage is compiled from the correspondence and press clippings of the National Civil Liberties Bureau from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919.

Marine Physical Readiness Training for Combat is intended for use by all Marines. It provides the information and references necessary to establish and conduct physical conditioning programs to prepare Marines for the physical demands of combat.Contents:Physical Readiness Leadership Role of Physical Fitness in Combat Fundamentals of Physical Fitness Goals of Physical Readiness Training Leadership RolesPhysical Readiness Training Programs Development of a Program Remedial Physical TrainingPhysical Conditioning Activities Marching under Load Conditioning Drills One, Two, and Three Rifle and Log Drills Grass Drills Guerrilla Exercises Running Circuit Training Basic Physical Skills and Obstacle Courses Individual Exercise ProgramsCombat Water Survival Marine Corps Water Survival Program Water Sports and Competitive Activities The Battle Swimming TestCompetitive Conditioning Activities Organization of Competitive Activities Combatives Relays Team Contests and AthleticsEvaluation of Performance During Training Objectives of Combat Readiness The Physical Fitness Test Other Methods of Evaluation Responsibility Commander's Physical Fitness Program Other Formal Tests Physical Readiness Test Airborne Trainee Physical Fitness Test Battle Fitness TestThe Human Body General Systems of the Body The Skeleton The Muscles Functioning of the Skeleton and Muscles The Circulatory and Respiratory Systems Cardiovascular FunctioningAppendix. Instructor Hints and Instructor TrainingIndex

Marines must have the versatility, flexibility, and skills to deal with any situation at any level of intensity across the entire range of military operations. Whenever the situation warrants the application of deadly force, a Marine must be able to deliver well-aimed shots to eliminate the threat. A Marine who is proficient in pistol marksmanship handles this challenge without escalating the level of violence or causing unnecessary collateral damage. It is not enough to simply provide Marines with the best available firearms; we must also ensure that their training prepares them to deliver accurate fire against the enemy under the most adverse conditions without hesitancy, fear, or uncertainty of action. A well-trained Marine is confident that he can protect himself, accomplish the mission, and protect his fellow Marines. To be combat ready, a Marine must be skilled in the tactics, techniques, and procedures of pistol marksmanship and diligent in the proper care and maintenance of the M9, 9-mm service pistol.Pistol Marksmanship is the Marine Corps' source document for pistol marksmanship and provides the doctrinal basis for Marine Corps pistol marksmanship training. This publication provides all Marines armed with a pistol with the tactics, techniques, and procedures for range and field firing the M9, 9-mm service pistol.

The National Detector Dog Manual covers background information, procedures, health care, and training related to detector dog activities.This manual is divided into five chapters:IntroductionProceduresHealth CareTrainingGlossaryAlso included are appendixes and an index.

An edition combining The Sin Eater (1895) and The Washer of the Ford (1896) with four added tales not in the first editions - including the remarkable weird fantasy "Ahaz the Pale" about an Amazon warrior. This omnibus includes some of the best Macleod weird tales. "The Washer of the Ford" is a winnower of souls; "The Harping of Cravetheen" is one of the most grotesque heroic fantasies ever written; "The Dan-nan-ron" regards the musical power to control the moods & will of others; "Green Branches" is a tale of a murdered brother's ghostly return; "Sin-Eater" regards Celtic magic; and many other great tales. A Scottish poet and man of letters, William Sharp (1855-1905) wrote a series of well-regarded novels representative of the "Celtic Twilight" school popularized by William Butler Yeats under the nom-de-plume Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym that Sharp never publicly acknowledged. Sharp even composed a fictional biography of Macleod for publication in "Who's Who" and exchanged correspondence with such notables as George Meredith, Robert L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Dante G. Rossetti, sometimes as William Sharp, and sometimes as Fiona Macleod. In part two of this memoir, compiled by Sharp's wife from his diaries and letters, the story of his dual-identity is made public and explained for the first time.

Jose Echegaray was a Spanish scholar and dramatist, born in Madrid about 1835. In 1858 he became professor of mathematics and physics in the School of Engineers in his native city, in which capacity he published many valuable works on science and mathematics. In 1868 he was made minister of commerce, minister of public instruction in 1873, and minister of finances in the following year. It is by his dramatic works, however, that he is best known, both at home and abroad. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904.

Essays on the Alps, the delights of the Alpine rambling, and a young man's expeditions - the piece on Switzerland in winter is perhaps his finest. This is considered to be one of the landmark books of mountaineering literature, and ranks among the best in climbing literature. The book describes 16 of the author's climbs and rambles in the Alps, including chapters on "The Schreckhorn," "The Jungfrau-Joch," and "The Alps In Winter" - a classic of mountain climbing that influenced generations of climbers.Sir Leslie Stephen is one of the most famous personalities in mountaineering, one of the most respected mountaineers and men of letters Britain has produced. His first ascent was in 1857 (Col du Géant). He was president of the Alpine Club from 1865 to 1868, and editor of the Alpine Journal.

CONTENTSDedicatory Introduction The Sunset of Old TalesThe Sunset of Old Tales - The Treud Nan Rbn - The Man on the Moor - The Woman at the Cross-ways - The Lords of Wisdom - The Wayfarer - Queens of Beauty - Orpheus and Oisin - The Awakening of Angus agChildren of WaterChildren of Water - Cuilidh Mhoire - Sea-magic - Fara-ghaol - Sorrow on the Wind - The Lynn of Dreams - MäyaFor the Beauty of an Idea Prelude - Celtic - The Gaelic HeartAnima CelticaThe Gael and His Heritage - Seumas: A Memory - Aileen: A Memory - The Four Winds of Eirinn - Two Old Songs of May - "The Shadowy Waters" - A Triad - The Ancient BeautyThe Winged Destiny

Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is admired today as the creator of a new tradition of humor. The Garden of Priapus is undoubtedly the best novel of Jarry's mature period. It is historical romance in episodic form, a series of tableaux of Rome in her decadence.

A sweeping novel of the time when the Holy Land was torn between the Crescent and the Cross. In this historical fiction set against the Crusades, the hero O'Neill, his sacrifice for the Arab girl he loves, and the treachery of the Knights Templar Grand Master, all play a part. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne) was born in New York City. Shortly after his birth, however, his parents took him back to the land of his forefathers. There he was educated and came to know the people of whom he wrote so magically. At Dublin University his love for the Irish language and for a good fight won him many prizes, first as a writer in Gaelic and second as the University's lightweight boxing champion. After continuing his studies at the Sorbonne and the University of Leipzig, he returned to the United States, where, in 1911, he married and established a home in Brooklyn Heights. He earned his living, while trying to write short stories, as an editor of dictionaries. Soon his tales began to attract attention and he added to his collection of boxing prizes many others won in short-story contests. When Messer Marco Polo appeared in 1921 his reputation in the literary world was firmly established. Thereafter, whatever he wrote was hailed enthusiastically by his ever-growing public, until 1928, when his tragic death in an automobile accident cut short the career of one of America's best-loved story-tellers.

In 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, published A Home for All, or a New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building in which he announced that the octagon house with its eight sides enclosed more space than a square one with equal wall space. The octagonal form had been used in public buildings in the past, but now as a concept for domestic architecture it had a dedicated and convincing champion. Fowler's books, stressing the functional and stylistic advantages of the octagon house, found many readers and several hundred followers who sprinkled the landscape from New England to Wisconsin with eight-sided houses, barns, churches, schoolhouses, carriage houses, garden houses, smokehouses, and privies. Fowler's creative idea for an octagon house came to him while contemplating a design for his own home. He wondered why there had been so little advancement in architectural design, particularly given the preponderance of scientific advancements. Looking for a radical change in house style, Fowler questioned why the spherical form that is predominant in nature was not employed in architecture. The constraint of right angles for the framing of houses was the obvious reason. Fowler thought "Why not have our houses six-, eight-, 12-or 20-sided? Why not build after some mathematical figure?" The solution: the octagon. Since octagons enclose more floor space per linear foot than comparable squares or rectangles, Fowler claimed they cost less to build and reduced heat loss. He also insisted octagons allowed in more sunlight and had better ventilation than conventional houses; owners of these unusual homes found that the improved light and ventilation went into the triangular closets and pantries that occupied the octagons' angles.

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. To one familiar with all Turgenev's works it is evident that he possessed the keys of all human emotions, all human feelings, the highest and the lowest, the novel as well as the base. But there was in him such a love of light, sunshine, and living human poetry, such an organic aversion for all that is ugly, or coarse and discordant, that he make himself almost exclusively the poet of the gentler side of human nature. We may say that the description of love is Turgenev's speciality.

CONTENTSHistorical Monuments of FranceThe Cathedral of AmiensBeauvais and ChartresToursCaenRouenMont St. MichelCarcassonneAigues-MortesCustodians of French Churches and MonumentsThe Templar Church of St. Jean de LuzPoitiersTwo Ancient Béarnais ChurchesThe Château of Henry of NavarreThe Château of LangeaisChenonceaux and Azay-le-RideauChinonThe Château of BloisThe Châteaux of Loches and ChaumontThe Châteaux of Amboise and ChambordRoman and Christian Monuments at Nîmes and ArlesBourgesThe Cathedral of RheimsSt. DenisSt. Etienne du Mont, the Church of the Patron Saint of Paris - Notre Dame, and the Panthéon

The comedy of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife was written, or at least begun, merely to entertain the members of the "Society of Rabelaisian Studies" at one of their meetings. But it succeeded so well that it was at once taken up by a regular theatre, the Porte-Saint-Martin, in the spring of 1912, and again at the Theatre de la Renaissance in the autumn. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.

T. Cushing Daniel was a prolific and passionate author. He also wrote Daniel on Real Money about the false gold standard; High Cost of Living, Cause-Remedy, concerning government debt; The Betrayal of the People, criticizing the Federal Reserve; and The Real Issue, Democracy Against Plutocracy and No Plutocracy, Peace But a Domestic Victory. This book purports to "condense the most valuable parts of the foregoing publications in one volume and bringing this most vital question down to date as a text book for the people. Mr. Daniel demonstrates that present conditions have been brought about by a dishonest money system..." T. Cushing Daniel was a monetary expert who testified before Congress regarding banking matters, and who was consulted and quoted by Henry Ford. "The greatest burdens that the people have to bear are interest and dividends on debts."

This book was used as the basis for the movie The Ten Commandments. A fictionalized account of the bondage of the children of Israel in Egypt as seen through the eyes of a young prince of Phoenicia in the form of letters to his mother. It is the first book in the author''s trilogy; the second book is The Throne of David and the third is The Prince of the House of David.A popular novel from this prolific novelist, and minister, from Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the preface: "The materialist conception of history is not only important because it allows us to explain history better than has been done up to now, but also because it enables us to make history better than has been hitherto done. And the latter is more important than the former. From the progress of the practice our theoretical knowledge grows and in the progress of the practice our theoretical progress is proved. No world-conception has been in so high a degree a philosophy of deeds as the dialectical materialism. Not only upon research but upon deeds do we rely to show the superiority of our philosophy. "Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), compiler of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (1905-10), has been rightly considered the successor of Engels in the intellectual leadership of the Marxian School. Kautsky was the founder of Die Neue Zeit and a political leader of the German Social Democrats. He denounced both Germany's aggression in World War I as well as the conduct of Russian Bolshevism after the 1917 Revolution. This book was originally published in 1906.

The text comprises an account of Boone's early history, his daring and remarkable career as the first settler of Kentucky, his thrilling adventures with the Indians, and his wonderful skill, coolness and sagacity under all the hazardous and trying circumstances of Western border life Daniel Boone's autobiography (orig. published 1784) is appended at the end of the book. Daniel Boone is one of the best known and best loved figures in the early history of our country - and his story is one of the most thrilling in its annals. Cecil B. Hartley, the biographer of the Empress Josephine proves a very capable transcriber of some of America's greatest frontier memories.

Originally published in 1897, these characteristic essays by future President Theodore Roosevelt set forth his theory of the obligations, the privileges, and the ideals of good citizenship. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). A Hero of the Spanish-American War, he served as governor of New York (1899-1900) and U.S. Vice President (September 1901) under William McKinley. In addition to holding the elective offices he was also a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Colonel of the Rough Riders, all by the age of 42, at which time he became the youngest man ever to hold the office of President. In 1906 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for this mediation in the Russo-Japanese War.