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            <title>The Sea Fight in the Waters of Japan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the memorable Saturday of May 27, 1905, in far eastern waters in which the guns of war-ships had rarely thundered before, took place an event that opened the eyes of the world as if a new planet had swept into its ken or a great comet had suddenly blazed out in the eastern skies. It was that of one of the most stupendous…]]></description>
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            <title>An Escape from the Mines of Siberia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The name Siberia calls up to our minds the vision of a stupendous prison, a vast open penitentiary larger than the whole United States, a continental place of captivity which for three centuries past has been the seat of more wretchedness and misery than any other land inhabited by the human race. To that far, frozen land a stream of the best and worst…]]></description>
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            <title>The Railroad in Turkestan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the 24th of January, 1881, Edward O&#8217;Donovan, a daring traveller who had journeyed far through the wastes and wilds of Turkestan, found himself on a mountain summit not far removed from the northern boundary of Persia, from which his startled eyes beheld a spectacle of fearful import. Below him the desert stretched in a broad level far away to the distant horizon. Near…]]></description>
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            <title>The Advance of Russia in Asia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Emperor of Russia, lord of his people, absolute autocrat over some one hundred and twenty-five millions of the human race, to-day stands master not only of half the soil of Europe but of more than a third of the far greater continent of Asia. To gain some definite idea of the total extent of this vast empire it may suffice to say that…]]></description>
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            <title>The Nihilists and their Work</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 1861 Alexander II., Emperor of Russia, signed a proclamation for the emancipation of the Russian serfs, giving freedom by a stroke of the pen to over fifty millions of human beings. In 1881, twenty years afterwards, when, as there is some reason to believe, he was about to grant a constitution and summon a parliament for the political emancipation of the Russian people,…]]></description>
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            <title>At the Gates of Constantinople</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From the days of Rurik down, a single desire—a single passion, we may say—has had a strong hold upon the Russian heart, the desire to possess Constantinople, that grand gate-city between Europe and Asia, with its control of the avenue to the southern seas. While it continued the capital of the Greek empire it was more than once assailed by Russian armies. After it…]]></description>
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            <title>The Fall of Sebastopol</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The history of Russia has been largely a history of wars,—which indeed might be said with equal justice of most of the nations of Europe. In truth, history as written gives such prominence to warlike deeds, and glosses over so hastily the events of peace, that we seem to hear the roll of the drum rising from the written page itself, and to see…]]></description>
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            <title>The Charge of the Light Brigade</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Crimean War, brief as was the interval it occupied in the annals of time, was one replete with exciting events. And of these much the most brilliant was that which took place on the 25th of October, 1854, the famous &#8220;Charge of the Light Brigade,&#8221; which Tennyson has immortalized in song, and which stands among the most dramatic incidents in the history of…]]></description>
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            <title>Schamyl, the Hero of Circassia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the region lying between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea rise the rugged Caucasian Mountains, a mighty wall of rock which there divides the continents of Europe and Asia. Monarch of those lofty hills towers the tall peak of Elbrus, called by the natives &#8220;the great spirit of the mountains.&#8221; Farther east Kasbek lifts its lofty summit, and at a lower level…]]></description>
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            <title>The Death-Struggle of Poland</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The French revolution of 1830 precipitated a similar one in Poland. The rule of Russia in that country had been one of outrage and oppression. In the words of the Poles, &#8220;personal liberty, which had been solemnly guaranteed, was violated; the prisons were crowded; courts-martial were appointed to decide in civil cases, and imposed infamous punishments upon citizens whose only crime was that of…]]></description>
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