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Roland Schilling Sonnenfels darf nicht untergehen

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Der Ort Sonnenfels am Inn die Personen und Handlungen in dieser Geschichte sind frei erfunden. Echt ist allerdings die große Flutkatastrophe vom Juni 2013. Nach wochenlangem Dauerregen konnten die Flüsse im Süden und Osten Deutschlands die Wassermassen nicht mehr bewältigen und traten über die Ufer. Tausende von Einsatzkräften und freiwilliger Helfer versuchten teils bis zur Erschöpfung das Schlimmste zu verhindern und ihre Gemeinden vor dem Untergang zu bewahren. [mehr]

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Joseph Conrad Chance, Part 1

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I Believe He Had Seen Us Out Of The Window Coming off To Dine In the Dinghy Of A Fourteen-Ton Yawl Belonging to Marlow My Host And Skipper. We Helped the Boy We Had With Us To Haul The Boat Up On The Landing-Stage Before We Went Up To The Riverside Inn, Where We Found Our New Acquaintance Eating his Dinner In dignified loneliness At The Head Of A Long Table, White And Inhospitable Like A Snow Bank. [mehr]

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M. E. Braddon Birds Of Prey (Fiscle Part-Xii) Part 2

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At An Early Hour Upon The Day On Which Valentine Hawkehurst Telegraphed To His Employer, Philip Sheldon Presented Himself Again At The Dingy Door Of The Office In Gray's Inn. The Dingy Door Was Opened By The Still More Dingy Boy; And Mr. Sheldon The Elder--Who Lived In A State Of Chronic Hurry, And Had A Hansom Cab In Attendance Upon Him At Almost Every Step Of His Progress Through Life--Was Aggravated By The Discovery That His Brother Was Out. [mehr]

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Thomas Frognall Dibdin A Bibliographical, Antiquarian And Picturesque Tour In france And Germany, Volume Three (fiscle part-VI)

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Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776 – 18 November 1847), English bibliographer, born at Calcutta, was the son of Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of Charles Dibdin. Dibdin was orphaned at a young age. His father died in 1778 while returning to England and his mother died one of the following two years, and an elderly maternal aunt eventually assumed responsibility for Dibdin.[1] He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and studied for a time at Lincoln's Inn. [mehr]

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Bliss Perry The American Spirit In Literature, A Chronicle Of Great Interpreters

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Excerpt : “We are but strangers in an inn, but passengers in a ship," said Roger Williams. This sense of the transiency of human effort, the perishable nature of human institutions, was quick in the consciousness of the gentleman adventurers and sober Puritan citizens who emigrated from England to the New World. It had been a familiar note in the poetry of that Elizabethan period which had followed with such breathless interest the exploration of America. [mehr]

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Society for Pure English Society for Pure English, Tract 5

The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems

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The English language is an Inn of Strange Meetings where all sorts and conditions of words are assembled. Some [mehr]

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Katherine Stokes The Motor Maids In Fair Japan

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The four famous travelers and their chaperone, Miss Helen Campbell, were always off somewhere in the red motor car. If they were not making a voyage to England with the "Comet" stored in the hold of the ship for immediate use on arrival, or taking perilous journeys across the American continent in the faithful car, they were making excursions to Shell Island or Seven League Island, or down the coast to the Sailors' Inn. [mehr]

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Elkanah Settle The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus

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Elkanah Settle (1 February 1648 – 12 February 1724) was an English poet and playwright.He was born at [mehr]

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Herbert Paul The Life of Froude

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Paul was the eldest son of George Woodfield Paul, Vicar of Finedon, and Jessie Philippa Mackworth.[1] He was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford Union. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1878. He was a leader-writer on the Daily News. In 1883 he married Elinor Budworth, daughter of the Hon. William Ritchie, Legal member of the Viceregal Council at Calcutta.[2] [mehr]

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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales And Other Poems

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The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury[2]) is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. [mehr]

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