A dramatic historical novel of escape during occupation and wartime and of starting life over in a new country.

Escape ’56 is a novel based on the life of young Elizabeth Molnár (the author’s mother) and her family as they lived through the harrowing days of the Hungarian Revolution. The book recounts the story of the inspiring student-led uprising and the shocking Soviet invasion that followed, leading...

This is the 56th issue of the Romantic Adventures series from American Comics Group that debuted in 1949.

Contents: The Life of a Diplomatist Poems and Ballads of Goethe. No. II The Great Drought A Tender Conscience Thierry’s History of the Gauls The Witchfinder. Conclusion My Last Courtship; or, Life in Louisiana Greece under the Romans

Contents: The O'Connell Case My College Friends. No. 1. John Brown The Tombless Man. By Delta French Socialists Marston; or, the Memoirs of a Statesman. Part XIV. Sonnet to Clarkson Letter from the Right Hon. Charles Hope Poems by Elizabeth B. Barrett Up Stream; or, Steam-Boat Reminiscences Westminster Hall and the Works of Art Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe Lamartine

Ya estaba todo preparado, todo decidido: había organizado unas vacaciones muy relajantes, yo solito, en contacto con la naturaleza… Sin embargo, me he visto envuelto en la trepidante búsqueda de un tesoro en las colinas negras, y acompañado de todos los Stilton. Por mil quesos de bola, ¡ésta sí ha sido una auténtica aventura de bigotes!

CONTENTS. AFFGHANISTAN ETCHED THOUGHTS BY THE ETCHING CLUB A LOVE CHASE—IN PROSE ANCIENT CANAL—THE NILE AND THE RED SEA THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER TRADITIONS AND TALES OF UPPER LUSATIA. NO. III. THE DWARF'S WELL SOME REMARKS ON SCHILLER'S MAID OF ORLEANS THE STOLEN CHILD M. GIRARDIN LORD ELDON

Eight years ago I came to the conclusion that I could raise double the number of bushels of corn that I was then raising. I then commenced experimenting on a small scale. I succeeded very well for the first three or four years. I got so that I could raise over ninety bushels per acre. In one year I got a few pounds over 100 bushels per acre. Three years ago my crop began to fail, and has continued to fail up to the present year, with the same treatment....

On the last day of August, he went into the plot with a sickle, and cut two handfuls of aftermath which measured twenty inches in growth. This he tied to a sheaf of the June cutting, and exhibited the same at the State Fair, where it attracted much attention and comment. Here, then, we have, he continues, a grass that will insure a 'good catch' if the seed is fresh; that can endure severe drouth; that produces an abundant supply of foliage; that...

The Professor begins by saying that many works on physics, directly or by implication, assert that the soil, by a well-known physical law, gains moisture from the air by night. One author says 'Cultivated soils, on the contrary (being loose and porous), very freely radiate by night the heat which they absorb by day; in consequence of which they are much cooled down and plentifully condense the vapor of air into dew.' Not all scientific works, however,...

"The Incredible Octopus combines amazing photos with in-depth facts to get kids aged 7 and up excited about octopuses and the underwater world in which they live. Readers are introduced to the fascinating biology of the octopus, from its 3 hearts and 9 brains to suction cups and how they work, and learn all about what it's like to be an octopus!"--