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Biografía de Amadou Kandié, jugador de damas senegalés extraordinario, durante su estancia en Francia 1894-1895. By Govert Westerveld

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Amadou Kandié, de 25 años, fue el primer africano que participó en un torneo internacional de damas en París. Nuestro famoso jugador de damas era tejedor de... More > profesión. Era originario de Saint-Louis y había llegado a Europa con un grupo de paisanos para asistir a la Exhibición Senegalesa y de Dahomey. Desde Lyon, Amadou Kandié viajó a París para medir sus fuerzas con los jugadores de esta ciudad. Llegó justo el 12 de agosto, día en el que se comenzó a jugar el Gran Torneo Internacional de Damas de París, de 1894. Quedó en el quinto lugar con únicamente 2 puntos menos que L. Barteling, A. Dussaut y L. Raphaël, quienes obtuvieron 39 puntos. Fue la gran sorpresa del torneo. Su biografía merece un lugar digno en la Historia del Juego de las Damas, puesto que fue el destacado antecesor de los famosos damistas senegaleses Woldouby y Baba Sy.< Less

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Índice General de los Documentos Relativos al Canje de la Moneda Mejicana. 1895-1896. (Expediente sobre canje de moneda mejicana que circula en la isla) By Angel Osvaldo Navarro Zayas

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En Puerto Rico, durante el siglo XIX, hubo grandes problemas económicos debido a la escasez de moneda y confianza en la misma. En el decenio de 1870, se autorizó la circulación... More > oficial de la moneda mejicana para pago de deudas y transacciones comerciales. Los comerciantes y hacendados puertorriqueños no estaban a gusto con el uso de dicha moneda mejicana y peticionaban al gobierno que se cambiara por otra moneda mejor, para uso en la Isla. En 1895, la moneda mejicana en circulación se procedió a cambiar por otra moneda de cuño nacional, la cual se mandó a acuñar en Madrid y se acuñó el Peso Provincial de P.R. Este libro es una breve descripción de 685 documentos referentes al canje de la moneda mejicana. Este Índice documental le facilitará a cualquier investigador con acceso al internet, la búsqueda exacta del documento descrito en el mismo. El uso de archivos digitales es una forma excelente para complementar búsquedas de fuentes primarias manuscritas e impresas para hacer investigaciones históricas.< Less

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Little Red Riding Hood Waltz Ignacio Martinetti - Beginner Piano Sheet Music Tadpole Edition By Silver Tonalities

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1895 Waltz for Beginner Piano Tadpole Edition A SilverTonalities Arrangement! Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!

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The Lure of the Mask By Harold MacGrath

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The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from... More > those trips inspired the novel.A 1908 review of the book summarizes the light plot of the story in overenthusiastic fashion:The story opens with a jump--literally. A young New Yorker, rich, of course, hears from his window on a night of fog and mist a woman's voice singing divinely. He falls in love with it head over heels and he falls downstairs in about the same way, he is such a hurry to see the singer. But by the time her reaches the street, lo! she has vanished, and only a policeman remains. Late on, this young, adventurous Mr. Hillard again meets the young, adventurous singer under most mystifying circumstances. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lure_of_the_Mask Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.< Less

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Dear Enemy By Jean Webster

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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24,... More > 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.Alice Jane Chandler Webster was born in Fredonia, New York. She was the eldest child of Annie Moffet Webster and Charles Luther Webster. She lived her early childhood in a strongly matriarchal and activist setting, with her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother all living under the same roof. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Webster< Less

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Half a Rogue By Harold MacGrath

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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 – October 30, 1932) was... More > a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.Also known occasionally as Harold McGrath, he was born in Syracuse, New York. As a young man, he worked as a reporter and columnist for the Syracuse Herald newspaper until the late 1890s when he published his first novel, a romance titled Arms and the Woman. According to the New York Times, his next book, The Puppet Crown, was the No.7 bestselling book in the United States for all of 1901. MacGrath subsequently wrote novels for the mass market about love, adventure, mystery, spies, and the like at an average rate of more than one a year. He would have three more of his books that were among the top ten bestselling books of the year. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_MacGrath< Less

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Half a Rogue By Harold MacGrath

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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 – October 30, 1932) was... More > a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.Also known occasionally as Harold McGrath, he was born in Syracuse, New York. As a young man, he worked as a reporter and columnist for the Syracuse Herald newspaper until the late 1890s when he published his first novel, a romance titled Arms and the Woman. According to the New York Times, his next book, The Puppet Crown, was the No.7 bestselling book in the United States for all of 1901. MacGrath subsequently wrote novels for the mass market about love, adventure, mystery, spies, and the like at an average rate of more than one a year. He would have three more of his books that were among the top ten bestselling books of the year. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_MacGrath< Less

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Angela's Business By Henry Sydnor Harrison

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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Henry Sydnor Harrison (1880–1930) was an American novelist,... More > born in Sewanee, Tenn. He graduated from Columbia in 1900, and received an honorary A.M. from the same university in 1913. In 1914, he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He wrote under the pen name "Henry Second," and made contributions to the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. Novels written by him include Queed (1911), which was very well received. works include Angela's Business (1915), When I Come Back (1919), Saint Teresa (1922), and Marriage (1923), a volume of short stories. Harrison also wrote a story, called "Miss Hinch", where a daring criminal and the lady after her make their way through New York City streets at midnight. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sydnor_Harrison< Less