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# The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley. It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green a first year undergraduate at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman. The same characters reappear in a sequel entitled Little Mr Bouncer and His Friend Verdant Green.
Though Bradley's Verdant Green has become something of a cult book about Oxford, he had previously produced a series of pen and ink drawings entitled 'Ye freshmonne his adventures at University College, Durham'. He altered the setting on the advice of Mark Lemon at Punch. Drawings of 'Durham Student Life' survive in College Life published in Oxford, Cambridge and Durham in 1850.
[Note: Placeholder "book." Part I and II are from Mr. Verdant Green (1898 edition), while Part III is from Mr. Verdant Married and Done for (1857 edition).]
* Part I: The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford freshman (1853)
* Part II: The further adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford under-graduate (1854)
* Part III: Mr. Verdant Green Married and Done for
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# The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican

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American animated television series that debuted on local stations in Chicago in 1950, widely considered one of the worst animated series of all time

## Episodes

* "Piggy Bank Robbery" (originally aired September 11, 1950)
* "Two Wet Bears" (originally aired September 18, 1950)
* "The Land of More" (originally aired September 25, 1950)
* "Pirate Pete" (originally aired October 2, 1950)
* "Swania Foiled Again" (originally aired October 9, 1950)
* "Plum Valley" (originally aired October 13, 1950)
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Works published in 1950 could have had their copyright renewed in 1977 or 1978, i.e. between January 1st of the 27th year after publication or registration and December 31st of the 28th year. As this work's copyright was not renewed, it entered the public domain on January 1st, 1979.
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# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Badia y Leblich, Domingo

Edition of 1879. See also Ali Bey al-Abbasi on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
BADIA Y LEBLICH, Domingo, a Spanish traveller, known as Ali Bey, born in 1776, died near Aleppo in 1818. He learned Arabic at Valencia and London, and under the name of Ali Bey and in the disguise of a Mussulman spent two years (1803-'5) in Morocco on terms of high favor with the emperor. He then made a pilgrimage to Mecca, stopping some time in Tripoli, Cyprus, and Egypt, afterward visiting
Jerusalem and prominent places in Syria, and reaching Constantinople in the autumn of 1807. He was there for the first time suspected of not being a real Mussulman. He fled, and returning home in 1809 entered the public service under King Joseph Bonaparte, on whose expulsion he was forced to leave the country. He published an account of his travels at Paris in 1814, under the title Voyages d'Ali Bei en Afrique et en Asie pendant les années 1803 à 1807, in which he described places and things which no Christian before him had seen. Four years later he set out on a second journey to the East, but died soon after his arrival in Syria.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Baltimore Bird

Edition of 1879. See also Baltimore Oriole on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
BALTIMORE BIRD, or Baltimore Oriole (yphantes Baltimore, Vieill.), a bird belonging to the family of sturnidæ (starlings), and peculiar to the American continent, which it inhabits from Canada to Brazil. It is the most beautiful of our summer visitors, and is universally
admired, both for the richness of its plumage and the sweetness of its song. It is also called “golden robin,” “hang bird,” and “fire bird.”
Baltimore Oriole.
The adult male has the head, neck all round, fore part of the back, wings, and tail, black; quills, excepting the first, margined with white; the whole under parts, the lesser wing coverts, and the posterior part of the back, bright orange, tinged with vermilion on the neck and breast; the tips of the two middle tail feathers, and the ends of the others, of a dull orange; bill and feet, light blue; iris, orange; length, 7¾ inches; extent of wings, 12 inches. This is the plumage of the third year, before which the colors are less bright, and more or less mixed with olive, brown, and white. The female is half an inch shorter, with the head, neck, and fore part of the back brownish black, mixed with dull yellow; hind part of the back light brownish yellow, brightest on the rump; lower parts duller than in the male. The orioles enter Louisiana, probably from Mexico, in early spring, and gradually make their way north, to return in autumn. Their motions are very lively and graceful. They are often seen clinging by the feet in search of insects, which form their principal food in the spring. Their song consists of from four to ten loud, full, and mellow notes, very agreeable to the ear. The nest is placed at the bottom of a very skilfully constructed network of strings and fibres, suspended, like a pouch, from the end of a branch, and shaded by overhanging loaves. The eggs are from four to six in number, about an inch long, of a pale brown color, spotted, dotted, and lined with dark brown. The period of incubation is 14 days. In Louisiana two broods are reared in a season. During migration their flight is high and straight, and mostly during the day. (See Oriole.)
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Baltimore (county)

Edition of 1879. See also Baltimore County, Maryland on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
BALTIMORE, a northern county of Maryland, bounded N. by Pennsylvania and S. by the Patapsco; area, 718 sq. m.; pop. in 1871, 330,741, of whom 47,921 were colored. The
larger portion of the surface is undulating, with wooded ridges enclosing fertile valleys, and with bold hills often rising to a height of 800 ft. above tide water. The principal varieties of rock are granite, gneiss, hornblende, limestone, and a ledge of primitive rock running through the southeastern portion of the county. On the Great and Little Gunpowder, the Patapsco, Gwynn's and Jones's falls are large cotton, woollen, and carpet factories, furnaces, founderies, paper and flour mills. Copper and iron are found in considerable quantities, and in this and Harford counties are the most productive mines of chrome in the United States. In the neighborhood of Texas and Cockeysville are extensive quarries of marble, from which came the large monoliths of the capital at Washington, and the fine-grained alum marble used in building the patent office. The soil is moderately rich. The chief productions in 1870 were 264,568 bushels of wheat, 31,182 of rye, 856,754 of Indian corn, 375,063 of oats, 201,754 of potatoes, 35,791 tons of hay, and 544,888 lbs. of butter. The value of the principal manufactures in 1866 was: flour and meal, $2,425,887; cotton, $2,113,414; machinery, $1,100,000; woollens, $435,250; iron, $612,594; paper, $297,400; hides and leather, $294,981; liquors, $162,277. The county seat was transferred in 1854 from Baltimore to Towsontown.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Baden (towns)

Edition of 1879. See also Baden bei Wien and Baden, Switzerland on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
BADEN. I. A town (anc. Aquæ Pannoniæ) of Lower Austria, on the river Schwechat, 14 m. S. S. W. of Vienna; pop. in 1869, 10,433. It is a favorite summer resort as a bathing place, having 13 hot sulphur springs. The
town has also dye works, and steel, brass, furniture, and other manufactories. II. A town of Switzerland, in the canton of Aargau, on the Limmat, 13 m. N. E. of Aarau; pop. about 3,000. Its hot sulphur springs were well known to the Romans, who built a castle upon the site where the city now stands. The hottest and most celebrated of the springs is called Verenabad. The rocky heights on each side of the river form a portal through which the Limmat runs. Before the gorge was formed, the country above must have been a considerable lake. The railway passes by a tunnel 800 feet long under the castle hill. Baden from the 15th to the beginning of the 18th century was the seat of the Swiss diet. In the town house of Baden Eugene of Savoy, who acted as representative of the emperor of Austria, signed the final treaty of peace terminating the war of the Spanish succession, Sept. 7, 1714.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Baltimore, Lord

Edition of 1879. See also the disclaimer.
BALTIMORE, Lord. See Calvert.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Balaton, Lake

Edition of 1879. See also Lake Balaton on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
BALATON, Lake (Ger. Plattensee), a large lake in S. W. Hungary, in the counties of Zala, Veszprém, and Somogy; length, from S. W. to N. E., about 47 m.; greatest breadth 9 m.; depth from 27 to 36 feet; area, about 450 sq. m. It is fed by the river Szala, and discharges its waters through the Sió, which falls into the Sárviz, an affluent of the Danube. The lake abounds in fish. The fogas, a kind of large perch, is found only in this lake; it frequently weighs 10 to 15 and sometimes 20 pounds. There is also a species of white fish resembling the herring, which appears in large shoals during the winter. Crabs, crayfish, tortoises, and mussels are found. Iron sand occurs on the shores, which exhibits under the
microscope grains of garnet, ruby, topaz, amethyst, and other precious stones.
# The Black Man's Burden/Foreword Part 2b

B—EPISODES IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF POLITICAL CONTROL
FOREWORD
In the story of the French seizure of Morocco, and of the Italian descent upon Tripoli, we are concerned with a set of motives determining European action in Africa entirely different from those we have been examining in the last chapters. We now enter the sphere of purely imperialistic undertakings. We chronicle events and policies which are not the outcome of haphazard circumstance, and which do not respond to the immutable laws of racial expansion. They are precipitated and evolved by statesmen, whose actions are propelled in part by nationalistic impulses, and in part by personal ambitions—by the will-to-power. The driving force behind them is essentially imperialistic, the desire for national dominion and world-power. For a time they incarnate this nationalist sentiment. They alternately use, and are used by, capitalistic finance, by a military caste, by associations of individuals—influences expressing themselves through a purchasable Press, by which public opinion is excited. But these personal and collective influences would hardly suffice to bring about the desired ends, without the presence in a considerable section of the population, of the glowing embers of nationalist arrogance ever ready to burst into flames.
The generating motive of these imperialistic adventures must not be sought in local circumstances alone, but in the complicated game of high politics played by diplomatists in Europe. The African peoples and territories affected are pawns on the diplomatic chessboard of Europe, counters in higher stakes.
The French seizure of Morocco and the Italian descent upon Tripoli are first and foremost chapters in contemporary European history. They are links, and powerful links, Morocco especially, in the chain of circumstances which generated the Great War of 1914. Indeed, it was the decision of France, Britain, and Italy in the years immediately preceding the Great War to treat Mediterranean Africa in the light of their own respective nationalist interests; to partition among themselves an extensive region of the earth's surface of notable economic and strategic importance without the slightest regard to the interests of its native inhabitants, and in defiance of formal international treaties, which produced the condition of international anarchy whence the Great War sprang.
The historian who, in his survey of the underlying causes of the most terrible catastrophe which has befallen civilisation, concentrates his view upon the rape of Belgium, and omits the precedent rape of North Africa, is dishonest with the generation he professes to enlighten. The French seizure of Morocco and the Italian descent upon Tripoli made havoc of the moral law of Europe.
The invasion of Belgium was not the inauguration of an era of Treaty -breaking in Europe. It was the culmination of an era.
# The Black Man (Brown)

THE
BLACK MAN,
HIS ANTECEDENTS, HIS GENIUS,
AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS.
BY
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN,
AUTHOR OF " CLOTELLE," " SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE ABROAD,"
" MIRALDA, OR THE BEAUTIFUL QUADROON," ETC.
EX PEDE HERCULEM.
New York:
THOMAS HAMILTON, 48 BEEKMAN STREET.
BOSTON: R. F. WALLCUT, 221 WASHINGTON ST.
1863.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
TO
The Advocates and Friends
OF
NEGRO FREEDOM AND EQUALITY,
WHEREVER FOUND,
This Volume is Respectfully Dedicated,
BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
The calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation. They delight to descant upon the "natural inferiority" of the blacks, and claim that we were destined only for a servile condition, entitled neither to liberty nor the legitimate pursuit of happiness. The second class are those who are ignorant of the characteristics of the race, and are the mere echoes of the first. To meet and refute these misrepresentations, and to supply a deficiency, long felt in the community, of a work containing sketches of individuals who, by their own genius, capacity, and intellectual development, have surmounted the many obstacles which slavery ​and prejudice have thrown in their way, and raised themselves to positions of honor and influence, this volume was written. The characters represented in most of these biographies are for the first time put in print. The author's long sojourn in Europe, his opportunity of research amid the archives of England and France, and his visit to the West Indies, have given him the advantage of information respecting the blacks seldom acquired.
If this work shall aid in vindicating the Negro's character, and show that he is endowed with those intellectual and amiable qualities which adorn and dignify human nature, it will meet the most sanguine hopes of the writer.
Cambridgeport, Mass., 1863.
CONTENTS.
THE BLACK MAN, HIS GENIUS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Black Man's Burden/End Matter

MANCHESTER:
AT THE NATIONAL LABOUR PRESS, LTD. ALSO AT LONDON.
28778
BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
AFFAIRS OF WEST AFRICA. (Heinemann.)
"There is no one who has, in recent years, done so much to explain West African problems to the British public."—Sir Charles Dilke.
(French edition: "Problèmes de l'ouest Africain" (Hachette). Translated by A. Duchéne, Chief of Staff of the African Department of the French Colonial Office).
THE BRITISH CASE IN FRENCH CONGO. (Heinemann.)
"A more remarkable story has never been related."—Liverpool Courier.
"Were it not that the facts cannot be, and indeed are not disputed, they would be incredible."—Morning Post.
KING LEOPOLD'S RULE IN AFRICA. (Heinemann.)
"An amazing book to be written in the dawn of the twentieth century of the Christian era."—Morning Post.
RED RUBBER. (T. Fisher Unwin.)
" To the author, more than to any man alive, is due the ventilation of this crime against civilisation. He has fought a long, up-hill battle against apathy, misrepresentation and the power of an unscrupulous purse. And he has been successful. He has made Congo Reform a part of the sworn creed of our chief public men."—Spectator.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONGO. (Smith, Elder & Co.)
"Mr. Morel's untiring industry has been by far the most important factor in awakening both public and official opinion to the monstrous iniquity which for the last eighteen years has been perpetrated with ever-increasing cynicism and effrontery in the Congo Basin."—Times.
​NIGERIA: ITS PEOPLES AND ITS PROBLEMS.
(Smith, Elder & Co. John Murray.)
"Mr. Morel's book is not only a vivid picture of a possession second only to India among our tropical dependencies but an eloquent plea for the only policy which can make the partition of Africa a blessing and not a curse to the African. It will, we feel sure, rank in the future as a standard authority on tropical administration."—Economist.
TEN YEARS OF SECRET DIPLOMACY. (National Labour Press; originally published in 1912 by Smith, Elder & Co., under the title of "Morocco in Diplomacy.")
"This book should be in the hands of every member of Parliament, every journalist, whose duty it is to instruct public opinion, and every citizen who desires to form an independent judgment upon a very critical passage in the life of the English State."—Daily News (1912).
TRUTH AND THE WAR. (National Labour Press.)
"I am very much concerned about Mr. Morel. I have read his book with considerable disagreement, with a conviction that he is a perfectly honest as well as a very able man, but above all with a growing apprehension. I am afraid lest, in an essential point of his criticism of our policy, Mr. Morel will be proved to be right."—H. W. M. in the Nation.
AFRICA AND THE PEACE OF EUROPE.
(National Labour Press.)
"Mr. Morel's constructive proposals have a large sweep, but they are nowhere Utopian, and to them or to something very near them every mind, I believe, will come which studies the problem of Africa in its bearings on European peace."—H. N. Brailsford in the Herald.
"No living man has, by pen and voice alone, done so much to influence the destinies of Africa."—The Nation.
# The Black Man's Burden/Foreword Part 2a

PART II
SECOND PERIOD—Invasion. Political Control and Capitalistic Exploitation
A—EPISODES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOIL
FOREWORD
# The Auld Goodman, or, The Goodwife Victorious/Pray, Be Quiet! Do!

BE QUIET! DO!
LONG time with Sylvia have I ſtrove, Oft told her of my faithful love, And vow'd for to be true; Yet the coy fair with feign'd reſtraint, Always reprov'd my fond complaint, With, pray be quiet do! With, pray be quiet. do!
Laſt May-day walking o'er the green, I ſaw her dreſt like ony queen, But when I nearer drew; And told in moving plaints my grief, Begging of her to give relief, She cry'd, Be quiet, Do!She, &c.
Vex'd to the heart at laſt to find, That Sylvia never would be kind, From her I went my way; And ſent a letter to her ſtrait, That I no more on her would wait, Nor longer for her ſtay.Nor, &c.
Well, this ſoon melted all her pride, And then in anſwer thus reply'd, ​Haſte, dear Philander, do; Come, quickly come, I'll be your bride, In Hymen's bands let us be ty'd, For I love none but you. For I love, &c.
Theſe words reviv'd my dying love, I joyful, thank'd the Powers above, In raptures quick I flew To Sylvia, and made her my bride. Now ſhe no more with feigned pride, Cries, Pray, Be quiet, Do! Cries, &c.
Learn, learn from hence ye nymphs & ſwains, That tread the rural flow'ry plains, Come learn like us to love; And may we thro' this mortal life, In ſpite of diſcord, noiſe, and ſtrife, Be bleſſed from above.Be bleſſed, &c.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Auld Goodman, or, The Goodwife Victorious/The Valiant Soldier

THE VALIANT SOLDIER.
COME all you lovers far and near, within bold Britain's dourie, Attentive be, and liſten to me, while I relate my ſtory: ​There's ſome calls me a quiet young lad, and others a wild rover, But I tell you I'm neither of the two, for I'm a jolly ſoldier.
I chearfully left my pipe and pot, to go where drums were beating, That muſic's ſweeter far to hear, than a lover's tales intreating: For woman's cries I do deſpiſe; I love my foes to conquer, And follow the drums where cannons roar, juſt like a valiant ſoldier.
A ſoldier lives the happieſt life almoſt can be enjoyed, Each day to ſpend his frugal pay, his time is moſt employed; So this each day we paſs away, each day and night all over, And so where I will, I go by the name of a loyal hearted ſoldier.
So full of glee, my landlady, will all her joys diſcover, And when my landlord he comes home, I'll play the wanton lover: So this each day I'll paſs away, each day and night all over; Contented and free in unity, bleſt be each jovial ſoldier.
When Britain again has peace proclaim'd, then home I'll be returning, ​Then every ſoul out over his bowl, ſhall drink his former mourning; Let each take his glaſs and then his laſs, and drink to each true lover; Bad luck unto he that would not drink free to every loyal ſoldier.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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