The life of the Empress Josephine.

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An imperial victim; Marie Louise archduchess of Austria, empress of the French, duchess of Parma,

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The happy days of the Empress Marie Louise,

Tr. of:Les beaux jours de l'imperatrice Marie-Louise

Marie Louise and the decadence of the empire /

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The book of the short story /

Introduction.--The shipwrecked sailor. About 2500 B.C.--The book of Ruth. About 450 B.C.--Apuleius. The story of Cupid and Psyche. 2d century A.D.--Boccaccio. Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon. 1353.--The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave. 1548.--Cervantes. The liberal lover. 1613.--Defoe. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. 1706.--Voltaire. Jeannot and Colon. 1764?--Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. 1819.--Scott, Sir W. Wandering Willie's tale. 1824.--Mérimée, P. The taking of the redoubt. 1829.--Balzac, H. de. La Grande Bretéche. 1832.--Hawthorne, N. The birthmark. 1843.--Poe, E.A. The cask of Amontillado. 1846.--Turgeneff, I. A Lear of the steppes. 1870.--Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. 1884.--Maupassant, G. de. A coward. 1885.--Kipling, R. Without benefit of clergy. 1890.--A list of representative tales and short stories.

Corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae.

Contents listed in: Potthast, August. Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi. Romae, apud Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-

The Empress Josephine, an historical sketch of the days of Napoleon,

Translation of Kaiserin Josephine.

The secret history of the cabinet of Bonaparte; including his private life, character, domestic administration, and his conduct to foreign powers:

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Recollections of the private life of Napoleon /

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The memoirs of the Empress Marie Louise.

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History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena.

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History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the letters and journals of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and official documents not before made public.

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The secret history of the court and cabinet of St. Cloud: in a series of letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London, written during the months of August, September, and October, 1805.

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Mitochondrial control region diversity of the houbara bustard Chlamydotis undulata complex and genetic structure along the Atlantic seaboard of North Africa

The houbara bustard, Chlamydotis undulata, is a declining cryptic desert bird whose range extends from North Africa to Central Asia. Three subspecies are currently recognized by geographical distribution and morphology: C.u.fuertaventurae, C.u.undulata and C.u.macqueenii. We have sequenced 854 bp of mitochondrial control region from 73 birds to describe their population genetic structure with a particular sampling focus on the connectivity between C.u.fuertaventurae and C.u.undulata along the Atlantic seaboard of North Africa. Nucleotide and haplotypic diversity varied among the subspecies being highest in C.u.undulata, lowest in C.u.fuertaventurae and intermediate in C.u.macqueenii. C.u.fuertaventurae and C.u.undulata are paraphyletic and an average nucleotide divergence of 2.08% splits the later from C.u.macqueenii. We estimate that C.u.fuertaventurae and C.u.undulata split from C.u.macqueenii approximately 430 000 years ago. C.u.fuertaventurae and C.u.undulata are weakly differentiated (F-ST = 0.27, N-m = 1.3), indicative of a recent shared history. Archaeological evidence indicates that houbara bustards have been present on the Canary Islands for 130-170 000 years. However, our genetic data point to a more recent separation of C.u.fuertaventurae and C.u.undulata at around 20-25 000 years. Concordant archaeological, climatic opportunities for colonization and genetic data point to a scenario of: (i) initial colonization of the Canary Islands about 130 000 years ago; (ii) a period of secondary contact 19-30 000 years ago homogenizing any pre-existing genetic structure followed by; (iii) a period of relative isolation that persists today.

Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the QUEBRADA (1969) and SIQUEIROS (1974) expeditions around the East Pacific Rise

Basalt samples obtained from the Siqueiros transform fault/fracture zone and the adjacent East Pacific Rise are mostly very fresh oceanic tholeiite and fractionated oceanic tholeiite with Fe+3/ Fe+2 ? 0.25; however, alkali basalts occur in the area as well. The rocks of the tholeiitic suite are ol + pl phyric and ol + pl + cpx phyric basalts, while the alkali basalts are ol and ol + pl phyric. Microprobe analyses of the tholeiitic suite phenocrysts indicate that they are Fo68-Fo86, An58-An75, and augite (Ca34Mg50Fe16). The range of olivine and plagioclase compositions represents the chemical variation of the phenocryst compositions with fractionation. The phenocyrsts in the alkali basalts are Fo81 and An69. The suite of tholeiites comprises a fractionation series characterized by relative enrichment of Fe, Ti, Mn, V, Na, K, and P and depletion of Ca, Al, Mg, Ni, and Cr. The fractionated tholeiites occur on the median ridge (which is a sliver of normal oceanic crust) of the double Siqueiros transform fault, on the western Siqueiros fracture zone, and on the adjoining East Pacific Rise, while the two transform fault troughs contain mostly unfractionated or only slightly fractionated tholeiite. We suggest that the fractionated tholeiites are produced by fractional crystallization of more 'primitive' tholeiitic liquid in a crustal magma chamber below the crest of the East Pacific Rise. This magma chamber may be disrupted by the transform fault troughs, thus explaining the paucity of fractionated tholeiites in the troughs. The alkali basalts are found only on the flanks of a topographic high near the intersection of the northern transform trough with the East Pacific Rise.