CHAPTER III While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the chamber she would put me in, and never let...
-CHAPTER 25 '"This is where I was prisoner for three days," he murmured to me (it was on the occasion of our visit to the Rajah), while we were making our way slowly through...
-CHAPTER 37 'It all begins with a remarkable exploit of a man called Brown, who stole with complete success a Spanish schooner out of a small bay near Zamboanga. Till I discovered the fellow...
-CHAPTER 20 'Late in the evening I entered his study, after traversing an imposing but empty dining-room very dimly lit. The house was silent. I was preceded by an elderly grim Javanese...
Most gamers are familiar with the subtle changing of the name Donkey Kong to avoid copyright infringement from aping (if you'll pardon the pun) the famous movie about the giant gorilla and the...
Mowgli's Brothers Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power,...
Seeing Sharp Bigger is better - at least when it comes to telescope mirrors. But larger mirrors have to be thick, so that they don't deform under their own weight. And really large mirrors...
Global Sustainability: Science, Engineering and Technology for Human Concern Welcome everybody and thank you for coming to this lecture by Douglas Mallette. He is the CEO of the Cybernated Farm...
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. 1] All praises and thanks be to Allah, Who (Alone) created the heavens and the earth, and originated the darkness and the light, yet those...