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The Gettysburg Address


Abraham Lincoln - 1863
    President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated the Confederates at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.

The Gettysburg Address


Abraham Lincoln - 1863
    They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Switzerland together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker


Karl Baedeker - 1863
    The chief object of the book is to enable the traveller so to employ his time, his money, and his energy that he may derive the greatest amount of pleasure and instruction from his visit. The systematic arrangement of Baedeker’s handbooks has proved itself the most acceptable to travellers, and the most flattering testimony to its merits is that some places has been it had been adopted in other works.The new edition has been thoroughly revised and in some places (especially in N. and W. Switzerland) enlarged. It is based on the personal observations of the Editor, and most of the country described has been repeatedly explored by him and his staff, with the result that it now embodies the most recent information, down to June 1928, obtained from the most trustworthy sources. …”81 Maps, 30 Town Plans and 15 Panoramas.