Richard Middleton
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"The Ghost Ship" is a 1912 short story by English author Richard B. Middleton. A chilling ghost story with unforgettable characters and a masterful narrative, this classic example of vintage supernatural fictional is sure to leave any lover of ghost stories and horror fiction with an almost unquenchable thirst for more of Middleton's marvelous and macabre work. Richard Barham Middleton (1882 – 1911) was an English author and poet most famous for...
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David slew Goliath with his slingshot: for millennia that was the norm, as men used a variety of non-explosive weapons to fire small stones and carefully rounded bullets of clay, glass, and even steel and lead. This unusual study explores in practical detail the many ways, old and new, in which man shot projectiles without recourse to gunpowder. They include the bow and arrow, a favorite for the last 10,000 years; pump-up air guns; blowpipes; catapults;...
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2023
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English
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Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author, known primarily for his short ghost stories, in particular The Ghost Ship. Stories in this collection include: "The Ghost Ship", "A Drama of Youth", "The New Boy", "On the Brighton Road", "A Tragedy in Little", "Shepherd's Boy", "The Story of a Book", "The Bird in the Garden", "Children
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The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland
Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738-1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India-and he has long been associated with the...