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Checkers or draughts is the name of several different board games. All of these games are similar. In every kind of checkers, the other player's pieces can be taken by being "jumped" over. "Checkers" is the American name. In British English, and in various other English-speaking nations, these games are called "draughts." The rules and championships are controlled by the World Draughts Federation. ...

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Excerpt: The Tragedie of Hamlet; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two Centinels. Barnardo. Who?s there? Fran. Nay answer me: Stand & unfold your selfe. Bar. Long live the King. Fran. Barnardo? Bar. He. Fran. You come most carefully upon your houre. Bar. ?Tis now strook twelve, get thee to bed Francisco. Fran. For this releefe much thankes: ?Tis bitter cold, And I am sicke at heart. Barn. Have you had quiet Guard? Fran. Not a Mouse stirring. Barn. Well, goodnight. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, the Riuals of my Watch, bid them make hast. Enter Horatio and Marcellus. Fran. I thinke I heare them. Stand: who?s there? Hor. Friends to this ground. Mar. And Leigemen to the Dane. Fran. Give you good night. Mar. O farwel honest Soldier, who hath reliev?d you? Fra. Barnardo ha?s my place: give you goodnight. Exit Fran. Mar. Holla Barnardo. Bar. Say, what is Horatio there? Hor. A peece of him. Bar. Welcome Horatio, welcome good Marcellus. Mar. What, ha?s this thing appear?d againe to night. Bar. I have seene nothing. Mar. Horatio saies, ?tis but our Fantasie, And will not let beleefe take hold of him Touchin...

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Table of Contents: The Tragedie of Hamlet, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 5 -- Scena Tertia., 11 -- Actus Secundus., 20 -- Scena Secunda., 23...

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption....

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Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It lost popularity during the Victorian era because of its gore, and it has only recently seen its fortunes revive....

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In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices and his brother, Eteocles, decided to rule alternately, switching at the end of every year. However, at the end of his year as king, Eteocles refused to turn power over to his brother and exiled him, fulfilling his father's curse that the two brothers could not rule peacefully. In the action of the play, Polynices and a group of Argive soldiers are attacking Thebes so that he can take his place as ruler. Eteocles must combat both the foreign forces outside the walls and the crazed, frightened women within. Note: The ending of this play is suspect. The lines Antigone and Ismene's entrance to the end may have been added later, either after Sophocles' Theban plays became popular or in the Middle Ages. (Summary by Libby Gohn)...

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Ancient Texts, Play, Tragedy, Classics (antiquity)

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King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion to their professed love of him. His plan misfires when Cordelia, his youngest and favourite daughter, refuses to flatter her father; she is disinherited and banished. This recording marks the 400th anniversary of the first performance of the play, on December 26th 1606. (Summary by David Barnes)....

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Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry the daughter of King Creon, and the lovesick Medea plots how to take her revenge. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The King banishes Posthumus, who goes to Rome, where he falls prey to the machinations of Iachimo, who tries to convince him that Imogen will be unfaithful. Meanwhile, the Queen (Imogen's stepmother) plots against her stepdaughter by trying to plan a match between Imogen and her worthless son Cloten. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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Excerpt: CHAPTER I; Down the Rabbit-Hole -- ALICE WAS BEGINNING to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ?and what is the use of a book,? thought Alice ?without pictures or conversation?? So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisychain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ?Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!? (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a ra...

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Table of Contents: I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, 2 -- II. The Pool of Tears, 10 -- III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, 18 -- IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, 26 -- V. Advice from a Caterpillar, 35 -- VI. Pig and Pepper, 46 -- VII. A Mad Tea-Party, 57 -- VIII. The Queen?s Croquet-Ground, 66 -- IX. The Mock Turtle?s Story, 76 -- X. The Lobster Quadrille, 85 -- XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, 93 -- XII. Alice?s Evidence, 101...

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The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. The Millenium Collectoin; built to help you and your library reach even greater heights....

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The library. An academic institution’s most vital resource. Now, The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection is enabling your library to be even more vital. Hello. My name is Mia. I’m here today to introduce you to the World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection and tell you exactly how the Millenium Collection can benefit your institution. The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. Five of the top universities in the world have made available more than 700 years of engineering eBooks for a total of 73,120 works. The Millenium Collection has a total of 146,620 engineering eBooks. More than twice that of these 5 top ranked universities combined. ...

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Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one king.[2] The goal of the game is for each player to try and checkmate the king of the opponent. Checkmate is a threat ('check') to the opposing king which no move can stop. It ends the game. During the game the two opponents take turns to move one of their pieces to a different square of the board. One player ('White') has pieces of a light color; the other player ('Black') has pieces of a dark color. There are rules about how pieces move, and about taking the opponent's pieces off the board. The player with white pieces always makes the first move.[4] Because of this, White has a small advantage, and wins more often than Black in tournament games. ...

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The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. The Millenium Collectoin; built to help you and your library reach even greater heights. ...

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Hello. My name is Mia. I’m here today to introduce you to the World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection and tell you exactly how the Millenium Collection can benefit your institution. The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. Einstein’s theory of relativity. World War I and II. Man’s journey to the moon and beyond As well as the Internet. The Millenium Collection has gathered the millions of primary written sources directly documenting or inspired by events such as these; and made them available through a single eBook portal. ...

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This is a step-by-step presentation on how to download eBooks to your Kindle eBook reader. This tutorial covers the Kindle Fire HD device.

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Today we are going to learn how students, teachers and librarians can download eBooks, from the School eBook Library, for viewing on Kindle Fire HD or Fire HDX devices. To get started, you will need: An Amazon Kindle Fire HD or HDX device An internet connection or data service And an eLibrary card for the School eBook Library Let’s begin: If your school gave you a direct link to the library, please skip this part of the tutorial, otherwise open a browser and type schoollibrary.org into your search bar. Now, open the menu and select Sign In. From here you can enter an offsite access code provided to you by your school or enter your username and password and tap “Sign In” After you log in, the homepage of the School eBook Library will load. Your homepage may look different than this one but everything in our tutorial will work the same way. Before we talk about downloading books, let’s investigate some of the exciting discovery tools for students, on the homepage. First, our eBook Finder. This is a great tool for finding interesting resources quickly. Simply type in a search term and tap search. We also have ...

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Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one king.[2] The goal of the game is for each player to try and checkmate the king of the opponent. Checkmate is a threat ('check') to the opposing king which no move can stop. It ends the game. During the game the two opponents take turns to move one of their pieces to a different square of the board. One player ('White') has pieces of a light color; the other player ('Black') has pieces of a dark color. There are rules about how pieces move, and about taking the opponent's pieces off the board. The player with white pieces always makes the first move.[4] Because of this, White has a small advantage, and wins more often than Black in tournament games. ...

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The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. The Millenium Collection; built to help you and your library reach even greater heights. - See more at: http://worldlibrary.net/details.aspx?bookid=3437268#sthash.FlNjYVi1.dpuf...

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Hello. My name is Mia. I’m here today to introduce you to the World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection and tell you exactly how the Millenium Collection can benefit your institution. The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. Einstein’s theory of relativity. World War I and II. Man’s journey to the moon and beyond As well as the Internet. The Millenium Collection has gathered the millions of primary written sources directly documenting or inspired by events such as these; and made them available through a single eBook portal. - See more at: http://worldlibrary.net/details.aspx?bookid=3437268#sthash.FlNjYVi1.dpuf...

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Space Invaders (スペースインベーダー Supēsu Inbēdā?) is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible. In designing the game, Nishikado drew inspiration from popular media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds, and Star Wars. To complete it, he had to design custom hardware and development tools. It was one of the forerunners of modern video gaming and helped expand the video game industry from a novelty to a global industry (see golden age of video arcade games). When first released, Space Invaders was very successful. The game has been the inspiration for other video games, re-released on numerous platforms, and led to several sequels. The 1980 Atari 2600 version quadrupled the system's sales and became the first "killer app" for video game consoles. Space Invaders has been referenced and parodied in multiple televis...

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The Read it LOUD Foundation is promoting literacy for all. We are focusing on young kids, by encouraging families to read together, and also on K-12 students by working with School eBook Library to provide eLibrary cards for EVERY K-12 student in the state, giving them access to millions of classic literature, audio books, journals, historical documents, and graphic novels, all at the touch of a button, with downloading and printing capabilities. All at no charge to the school or student, through grants. This campaign will launch January of 2014 and we are looking for community support. We will be working with every school in the state, from K-12, DOE schools, private schools, Catholic Schools and charter schools. Over 300 schools total, from Waianae to Waimanalo....

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Visit www.ReadItLoud.org to access fantastic reading material and more videos. Today, his name is a household word. His most recent venture is, Chip & Cookie, a retail store, on Oahu, in Kailua Town, Hawaii and an e-Commerce business featuring five flavors of cookies and two chocolate chip cookie plush character dolls, Chip & Cookie, created by Christine Harris-Amos. Wally & Christine founded the Chip & Cookie Read Aloud Foundation in 2005 urging parents and caregivers to read aloud to children for at least 10 minutes each day. Ten percent of the net profits realized by Chip & Cookie LLC will benefit the foundation, an IRS (501)(3C), to support its efforts to promote Children's Literacy. In August 2006, using Savannah as their pilot city, they launched Read It Loud! Savannah. In 1994 he co-founded the Uncle Wally's Muffin Company which produces a full line of muffins. As founder of Famous Amos Cookies in 1975 and father of the gourmet chocolate chip cookie industry, he has used his fame to support educational causes. Wally was National Spokesman for Literacy Volunteers of America from 1979 until 2002 when they merged with Laubac...

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Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their malignant enemy returns to England. (Summary by Elaine Tweddle)...

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Fiction, Adventure, Mystery

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Excerpt: The Phantom ?Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling.

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Contents THE PHANTOM ?RICKSHAW ...................................................................................................... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY................................................................................................ 25 THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES ................................................................... 33 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING........................................................................................... 54 ?THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD? ................................................................................. 87...