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7,118 | Charles Herbert Sylvester | Close Reading—(Concluded) | Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10. | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24857/24857-h/24857-h.htm#CHAPTER_X | 1,922 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Words alone are not a sufficient possession. They must be known in all their relations. A comprehension of the structure of the sentence is always necessary. A sentence is a unit of thought, an idea reduced to its lowest terms. It may not be necessary that each sentence be analyzed strictly by grammatical rules, but it... | 194 | 8 | 1 | -2.133115 | 0.522257 | 53.14 | 11.87 | 12.54 | 13 | 8.75 | 0.35304 | 0.34674 | 9.815273 | 4,386 |
7,361 | Louise Imogen Guiney | The Precept of Peace | "Modern Essays SELECTED BY
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY" | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38280/38280-h/38280-h.htm | 1,920 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The true use of the much-praised Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, has hardly been apprehended: he is simply the patron saint of indifferents. From first to last, almost alone in that discordant time, he seems to have heard far-off resolving harmonies, and to have been rapt away with foreknowledge. Battle, to which all k... | 174 | 8 | 1 | -3.163356 | 0.612588 | 63.37 | 9.89 | 10.59 | 12 | 8.32 | 0.28597 | 0.28248 | 11.054078 | 4,575 |
4,425 | R. E. Raspe | The Savage Boar | THE ELSON READERS
BOOK FIVE
| http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9106/pg9106-images.html | 1,911 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | end | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Once, when I was returning from a hunt, with an empty gun (having used all my ammunition), a raging wild boar rushed at me. Well, you know how unpleasant such an encounter may be, so I am sure none of you will think me a coward for hastily climbing the nearest tree; it was a young birch which could hardly bear my weigh... | 160 | 6 | 1 | 0.260861 | 0.513074 | 82.12 | 7.48 | 8.1 | 9 | 6.55 | 0.14618 | 0.17053 | 19.015583 | 2,319 |
6,205 | Jennie Hall | Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9628/9628-h/9628-h.htm | 1,918 | Info | Lit | 500 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Vesuvius is a dangerous thing, but very beautiful. It stands tall and pointed and graceful against a lovely sky. Its little cloud waves from it like a plume. At night the mountain is swallowed by the dark. But the red rivers down its slopes glare in the sky. It is beautiful and terrible like a tiger. Thousands of peopl... | 178 | 20 | 2 | -0.509111 | 0.439064 | 88.1 | 3.19 | 2.55 | 8 | 5.49 | 0.03165 | 0.04059 | 21.329239 | 3,690 |
2,721 | simple wiki | Viscosity | null | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity | 2,019 | Info | Science | 900 | whole | CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL | G | 1 | 1 | Viscosity is a physical property of fluids. It shows resistance to flow. In a simple example, water has a low viscosity, as it is 'thin'. Syrup or tar, on the other hand has a high viscosity, as it is 'thick'. A way to test for viscosity is the speed at which the substance runs down a slope. Syrup would reach the botto... | 159 | 12 | 4 | -0.77709 | 0.46788 | 67.28 | 7.23 | 5.79 | 9 | 8.4 | 0.22413 | 0.2228 | 17.564624 | 1,136 |
5,712 | Emily Carter | MABEL'S COW | The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII.
A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24478/24478-h/24478-h.htm#Page_129 | 1,873 | Lit | Lit | 700 | end | null | G | 1 | 1 | It was found that the cow had been badly treated by the man who had owned her, and who had been in the habit of milking her. Being a high-spirited beast, she then gave him so much trouble, that he was soon glad to be rid of her.
She would now let no one touch her but Mabel: so Mr. Brittan finally said that the cow shou... | 146 | 8 | 3 | 0.898552 | 0.512523 | 86.3 | 5.85 | 4.98 | 7 | 6.04 | -0.01557 | 0.01023 | 22.570518 | 3,363 |
4,334 | Premier Venizelos set forth the Government's neutral policy in his speech to Parliament on Sept. 15, (28,) 1914 | PRIME MINISTRY’S ATTITUDE | The European War, Vol. 1 - No. 6 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20521/20521-h/20521-h.htm#Greeces_Watchful_Waiting | 1,914 | Info | Lit | 1,700 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | The Government has declared that during this war Greece is to remain neutral, but at the same time it did not conceal the fact that it has obligations toward one of the belligerents, Serbia, and that said obligation it was resolved to fulfill faithfully should the casus foederis arise.
Greece, however, wishes nothing m... | 143 | 4 | 3 | -1.554428 | 0.458488 | 47.52 | 15.64 | 18.55 | 14 | 8.92 | 0.27069 | 0.2912 | 14.830597 | 2,246 |
4,589 | ANTON TCHEKHOV
Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT | THE LADY WITH THE DOG | THE LADY WITH THE DOG
AND OTHER STORIES | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13415/13415-h/13415-h.htm | 1,899 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | A week had passed since they had made acquaintance. It was a holiday. It was sultry indoors, while in the street the wind whirled the dust round and round, and blew people's hats off. It was a thirsty day, and Gurov often went into the pavilion, and pressed Anna Sergeyevna to have syrup and water or an ice. One did not... | 188 | 10 | 3 | -2.337214 | 0.497704 | 72.73 | 7.86 | 9.02 | 9 | 6.82 | 0.14442 | 0.13559 | 12.234922 | 2,432 |
4,306 | Henry James | Notes of a Son and Brother | null | http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/notes-son-and-brother/ | 1,914 | Info | Lit | 1,500 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Life meanwhile I had a good deal of at my side in the person of my brother Wilky, who, as I have had occasion elsewhere to say, contrived in those years to live, or to have every appearance of so doing, with an immediacy that left me far in the lurch. I was always still wondering how, while he had solved the question s... | 146 | 3 | 1 | -2.754824 | 0.526643 | 53.9 | 14.81 | 16.27 | 13 | 8.15 | 0.07613 | 0.12051 | 15.855277 | 2,228 |
3,551 | Ronald Reagan | From 'A Time for Choosing' Speech | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/from-a-time-for-choosing-speech | 1,964 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service ... | 175 | 9 | 4 | -1.491462 | 0.454541 | 56.2 | 10.36 | 10.39 | 11 | 7.62 | 0.20392 | 0.20226 | 14.292972 | 1,829 |
3,029 | Ruth Odondi | Ndalo and Pendo – The best of friends | African Storybook Level 5 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/ | 2,017 | Lit | Lit | 700 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Ndalo's father milks Pendo twice a day. She produces about 24 litres of milk a day, so about 12 litres for each milking. Sometimes Ndalo helps with the milking but it is not as easy as it looks. "One day," he thinks to himself, "I will have my own cows and I will have to do all the milking myself." His father pours the... | 191 | 14 | 1 | -1.652496 | 0.486495 | 94.25 | 3.28 | 2.88 | 5 | 7.16 | -0.00998 | -0.01822 | 22.93057 | 1,406 |
5,121 | Chron. Industr | TEMPERING BY COMPRESSION | Scientific American Supplement, Nos. 360 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8559/8559-h/8559-h.htm#2 | 1,882 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | start | null | G | 1 | 1 | L. Clemandot has devised a new method of treating metals, especially steel, which consists in heating to a cherry red, compressing strongly and keeping up the pressure until the metal is completely cooled. The results are so much like those of tempering that he calls his process tempering by compression. The compressed... | 194 | 8 | 1 | -2.223364 | 0.554222 | 35.7 | 14.3 | 15.62 | 16 | 10.13 | 0.34866 | 0.32454 | 2.316691 | 2,856 |
3,472 | Karen Thompson Walker | What Fear Can Teach Us | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/what-fear-can-teach-us | 2,013 | Info | Lit | 900 | mid | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | As we grow up, we're often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates. And I think it's no accident that we think this way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard-wired to be optimists. So maybe that's why we think of fear, ... | 178 | 13 | 2 | 0.375499 | 0.515281 | 72.46 | 6.59 | 5.73 | 9 | 6.87 | 0.15946 | 0.15815 | 24.139682 | 1,767 |
6,517 | Captain Mayne Reid | The Lone Ranche | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21240/21240-h/21240-h.htm | 1,871 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | There is, or was then, an American hotel in Chihuahua, or at least one conducted in the American fashion, though only a mere posada. Among its guests was a gentleman, stranger to the town, as the country. His dress and general appearance bespoke him from the States, and by the same tokens it could be told that he belon... | 168 | 6 | 1 | -2.129487 | 0.511845 | 50 | 13.24 | 13.97 | 14 | 8.88 | 0.18019 | 0.19053 | 5.604879 | 3,936 |
3,018 | Northern Cape Teacher's Workshop 2016 | Crocodile waits for brains | African Storybook Level 2 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/ | 2,017 | Lit | Lit | 500 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | PG | 2 | 2 | While Dande wondered how to punish Madola, a small black poisonous snake entered one of the gourds unnoticed. Afterwards, Dande sealed the gourds and left. Dande gave Madola one gourd expecting his pay. After tasting, Madola said, "Bring me another gourd and I will pay you." Dande ran for it. Dande brought the second g... | 150 | 18 | 1 | -0.898353 | 0.462964 | 81.06 | 4.02 | 3.14 | 8 | 7.42 | 0.18628 | 0.19516 | 25.509876 | 1,396 |
3,040 | Shelby Ostergaard | Can Television Be Considered Literature and Taught in English Classes? | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/can-television-be-considered-literature-and-taught-in-english-classes | 2,017 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 | G | 1 | 1 | We are now living in the golden era of television. The term "golden era" is what television and media critics call the collection of TV shows from the late 1990s to present day. Commercial television shows have existed since the early 20th century, but as Jason Mitchell notes in his book Complex TV, technological devel... | 188 | 9 | 2 | -0.630886 | 0.45441 | 55.52 | 10.79 | 11.88 | 12 | 9.32 | 0.24831 | 0.22542 | 13.285178 | 1,415 |
2,030 | simple wiki | Emulator | null | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator | 2,020 | Info | Technology | 1,100 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL | G | 1 | 1 | An emulator is a computer program or hardware that makes one kind of computer behave like a different one, so that it can use the same programs or do the same things as the other one. They are best for using old software and games on newer computers. They can be hardware that you add to the computer, or software that y... | 153 | 8 | 2 | -1.411302 | 0.471195 | 60.95 | 9.54 | 8.9 | 12 | 8.18 | 0.23493 | 0.24927 | 21.173002 | 501 |
2,131 | simple wiki | Information | null | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information | 2,020 | Info | Technology | 700 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL | G | 1 | 1 | The word "information" is used in many different ways. Originally, it comes from a word that meant to give a form to something. Information is something that people can learn, know about, or understand. For example, a newspaper contains information about the world. This article contains information about "Information".... | 158 | 13 | 3 | -0.286443 | 0.472696 | 63.21 | 7.5 | 7.45 | 10 | 7.8 | 0.1465 | 0.14116 | 26.697991 | 594 |
3,420 | Tessa Welch | Nozibele and the three hairs | African Storybook Level 4 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/ | 2,014 | Lit | Lit | 300 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | PG | 2 | 1.5 | When they were nearly home, Nozibele put her hand to her neck. She had forgotten her necklace! "Please come back with me!" she begged her friends. But her friends said it was too late.
Nozibele went back to the river alone. She found her necklace and began hurrying home. But, she got lost in the dark.
In the distance... | 190 | 26 | 7 | -0.315435 | 0.478219 | 94.16 | 2.09 | 0.76 | 6 | 5.36 | 0.04789 | 0.03959 | 36.172452 | 1,724 |
7,027 | LOIS WALTERS | EDITH’S TEA-PARTY | Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25359/25359-h/25359-h.htm#Page_269 | 1,920 | Lit | Lit | 700 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | When Tuesday came, Edith's nurse dressed her in a fresh, white frock, and Edith dressed her dolly in her best dress, and went out under the trees where her nurse had set the table for two. And then she sat in a chair at the table and waited. But the big town clock struck four and no Helen came; and then she waited for ... | 150 | 8 | 4 | 0.639665 | 0.561576 | 85.07 | 5.62 | 5.51 | 6 | 5.92 | -0.00893 | 0.00553 | 24.053305 | 4,307 |
3,777 | Rabindranath Tagore | THE POSTMASTER | Stories from Tagore | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33525/33525-h/33525-h.htm | 1,918 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | One noon, during a break in the rains, there was a cool soft breeze blowing; the smell of the damp grass and leaves in the hot sun felt like the warm breathing of the tired earth on one's body. A persistent bird went on all the afternoon repeating the burden of its one complaint in Nature's audience chamber.
The postma... | 169 | 6 | 2 | -0.958668 | 0.474895 | 67.54 | 11 | 13.47 | 10 | 7.99 | 0.21545 | 0.22579 | 9.177155 | 2,000 |
4,432 | William James Lampton | HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON | The Best American Humorous Short Stories | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10947/10947-h/10947-h.htm | 1,911 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The widow ran away like a lively schoolgirl. All the sisters watched her get into the sleigh with the deacon, and resumed the previous discussion with greatly increased interest. But little recked the widow and less recked the deacon. He had bought a new horse and he wanted the widow's opinion of it, for the Widow Stim... | 179 | 9 | 1 | -1.21573 | 0.45923 | 72.27 | 8.12 | 8.55 | 9 | 7.89 | 0.24695 | 0.24695 | 17.74351 | 2,325 |
3,490 | Mark Cartwright | Pompeii | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/pompeii | 2,012 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | PG | 2 | 1.5 | The area around Vesuvius received its first warning sign that the mountain was perhaps reawakening when a massive earthquake struck on the 5th of February 62 A.D. The quake measured 7.5 on the Richter scale and devastated the surrounding towns; even parts of Naples, 20 miles away, were damaged. At Pompeii, few building... | 145 | 8 | 1 | -0.596058 | 0.44986 | 58.91 | 9.54 | 10.69 | 11 | 9.11 | 0.22868 | 0.24535 | 4.330756 | 1,783 |
5,326 | NORMAN C. COOKSON | ON SOME RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN LEAD PROCESSES. | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 299 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8408/8408-h/8408-h.htm | 1,881 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | start | null | G | 1 | 1 | The author began by stating that probably in few trades have a smaller number of changes been made during recent years, in the processes employed, than in that of lead smelting and manufacturing. He then briefly noted what these changes are, and went on to describe the "steam desilverizing process," as used in the work... | 184 | 7 | 1 | -2.036975 | 0.495293 | 59.83 | 11.55 | 12.22 | 11 | 8.09 | 0.26061 | 0.26942 | 9.504672 | 3,025 |
2,109 | wikipedia | Historian | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian | 2,020 | Info | History | 1,100 | mid | CC BY-SA 3.0 | G | 1 | 1 | An undergraduate history degree is often used as a stepping stone to graduate studies in business or law. Many historians are employed at universities and other facilities for post-secondary education. In addition, it is normal for colleges and universities to require the PhD degree for new full-time hires. A scholarly... | 165 | 8 | 1 | -0.605162 | 0.480271 | 34 | 13.13 | 12.84 | 14 | 10.51 | 0.37628 | 0.36101 | 7.098831 | 575 |
2,583 | Hermona Soreq
| Fear, Fat, and Genes: New Answers to Old Questions | null | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00076 | 2,019 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Each cell in our body includes the full copy of the DNA. Only a small part of the DNA in these cells contains genes, that carry the information to make proteins. Other genes hold instructions to produce different kind of molecules called RNA. There are large and small RNA molecules. In our laboratory, we study the newl... | 179 | 11 | 2 | -2.275497 | 0.509998 | 55.56 | 9.98 | 10.61 | 12 | 9.53 | 0.21097 | 0.2005 | 14.200148 | 1,004 |
7,402 | Suraj J Menon | "My fish!" "No, my fish!" | null | https://www.digitallibrary.io/en/books/details/1016 | 2,015 | Lit | Lit | 500 | start | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Kicchu woke up early one morning. "It is time to catch some fish," he said yawning. He met Choru on the way to the pond. They were best friends who played all day long. Munia saw them marching with their fishing rods.
"We are going to the pond to catch fish. Come along Munia, if you wish."
Little Munia thought for some... | 141 | 18 | 7 | -0.013237 | 0.489857 | 94.24 | 2.04 | 1.82 | 5 | 6.17 | 0.08993 | 0.09509 | 25.771266 | 4,606 |
3,347 | Francisco Escondido | Lion gets sick | African Storybook Level 4 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/ | 2,014 | Lit | Lit | 500 | start | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | One day, all the wild animals got together to choose a king.
They saw that it would be good to choose Lion to be the king of the animals.
At that meeting, they crowned Lion the king of the animals. As part of the ceremony, they had a big party that lasted a week.
All of the animals attended the ceremony until the en... | 193 | 17 | 12 | 0.048206 | 0.489442 | 85.01 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 8 | 6.03 | 0.09774 | 0.08574 | 26.919681 | 1,665 |
2,926 | David W. Waite; Siân I. Morgan-Waite; Michael W. Taylor | What Thrives Inside; The World Within the Gut | Frontiers for Young Minds | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2017.00050 | 2,017 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The similarities and differences between the microbiomes of different animals made us wonder if species with similar diets have similar microbiomes, or whether the microbiomes are only similar because the species are related. For example, do a dolphin and a penguin have a similar microbiome because they both eat fish? ... | 192 | 10 | 1 | -1.120507 | 0.438242 | 44.93 | 11.86 | 12.11 | 14 | 9.36 | 0.32065 | 0.30469 | 16.061637 | 1,315 |
6,763 | Susan Coolidge | What Katy Did | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8994/8994-h/8994-h.htm | 1,872 | Lit | Lit | 700 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | A little knot of the school-girls were walking home together one afternoon in July. As they neared Dr. Carr's gate, Maria Fiske exclaimed, at the sight of a pretty bunch of flowers lying in the middle of the sidewalk:
"Oh my!" she cried, "see what somebody's dropped! I'm going to have it." She stooped to pick it up. Bu... | 165 | 16 | 4 | -0.332446 | 0.488867 | 81.95 | 4.83 | 4.82 | 8 | 7.32 | 0.13678 | 0.14179 | 13.008147 | 4,149 |
4,920 | Revue Scientifique | RECENT BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS. | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 430 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8484/8484-h/8484-h.htm#18 | 1,884 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | M. Leclerc du Sablon has published some of his results in his work on the opening of fruits. The influences which act upon fruit are external and internal. The external cause of dehiscence is drying. We can open or shut a fruit by drying or wetting it. The internal causes are related to the arrangement of the tissues, ... | 178 | 10 | 3 | -2.742465 | 0.503407 | 55.09 | 10.05 | 10.63 | 12 | 9.88 | 0.31701 | 0.30094 | 13.020075 | 2,687 |
1,124 | By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. | THANKFUL | Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19909/19909-h/19909-h.htm#THANKFUL | 1,915 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | She wore a blue wool frock and a red cloak. Sarah held her close. She even drew a fold of her own blue homespun blanket around her to shield her from the November wind. The sky was low and gray; the wind blew from the northeast, and had the breath of snow in it. Submit on the wall drew her quilted petticoats close down... | 183 | 10 | 1 | -1.127788 | 0.475471 | 79.7 | 6.76 | 7.94 | 8 | 6.6 | 0.10917 | 0.11393 | 9.230239 | 164 |
4,471 | L. M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45/45-h/45-h.htm | 1,908 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | When Marilla had gone Anne looked around her wistfully. The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness. The floor was bare, too, except for a round braided mat in the middle such as Anne had never seen before. In one corner was the bed, a high, old-fashi... | 177 | 9 | 1 | -1.428522 | 0.480802 | 73.67 | 7.55 | 8.16 | 9 | 6.95 | 0.23125 | 0.22612 | 11.740532 | 2,356 |
5,192 | ? | REMEDY FOR SICK HEADACHE. | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 363 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8452/8452-h/8452-h.htm | 1,882 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | start | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Surgeon Major Roehring, of Amberg, reports, in No. 32 of the Allg. Med. Centr. Zeit., April 22, 1882, a case of headache of long standing, which he cured by salicylate of sodium, which confirms the observations of Dr. Oehlschlager, of Dantzig, who first contended that we possessed in salicylic acid one of the most reli... | 191 | 9 | 2 | -3.195814 | 0.541292 | 51.83 | 12.05 | 12.78 | 13 | 9.64 | 0.24389 | 0.22869 | 6.081613 | 2,912 |
6,441 | Allen Chapman
| The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7899/pg7899-images.html | 1,922 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | One of them, who was apparently the leader of the trio, was a big, unwieldy boy of sixteen, a year older and considerably larger than Bob and Joe. His eyes were close together, and he had a look of coarseness and arrogance that denoted the bully. Buck Looker, as he was called—his first name was Buckley—was generally un... | 185 | 8 | 3 | -0.751905 | 0.457652 | 62.55 | 11.17 | 11.79 | 12 | 8.25 | 0.14585 | 0.15185 | 15.354285 | 3,869 |
899 | Juliana Horatia Ewing | AMONG THE MERROWS | Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16121/16121-h/16121-h.htm#AMONG_THE_MERROWS | 1,882 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Strangely beautiful those prawns are when you see them at home. And that one seems to do in the Great Aquarium; though, I suppose, it is much like seeing land beasts and birds in the Zoological Gardens—a poor imitation of their free life in their natural condition. Still, there is no other way in which you can see and ... | 144 | 5 | 1 | -1.236415 | 0.477508 | 69.68 | 9.5 | 9.99 | 12 | 6.8 | 0.03714 | 0.07358 | 21.124623 | 146 |
4,176 | Woodrow Wilson | AMERICA FOR HUMANITY. | The European War, Vol 2, No. 3 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15480/15480-h/15480-h.htm | 1,915 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | When I think of the flag that those ships carry, the only touch of color about them, the only thing that moves as if it had a settled spirit in it, in their solid structure, it seems to me I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice and strips of blood spilt to vindicate... | 180 | 2 | 2 | -0.925303 | 0.478601 | -3.28 | 36.2 | 43.35 | 18 | 11.27 | 0.29862 | 0.31945 | 4.494735 | 2,175 |
4,558 | O. Henry | Hearts and Hands | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/hearts-and-hands | 1,902 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. Express. In one coach there sat a very pretty young woman dressed in elegant taste and surrounded by all the luxurious comforts of an experienced traveler. Among the newcomers were two young men, one of handsome presence with a bold, ... | 186 | 11 | 3 | -0.474787 | 0.476833 | 69.48 | 8.26 | 9.99 | 10 | 8.42 | 0.16782 | 0.15091 | 9.282028 | 2,412 |
2,938 | Elke and René
Leisink | Cat and Dog
and the egg | African Storybook Level 3 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/# | 2,017 | Lit | Lit | 100 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Cat and Dog walk. They walk in their village. Then they see an egg. The egg is in the grass. The egg is alone in the grass. The egg is all alone. Cat and Dog walk to a bird. They ask the bird, "Is this your egg?" But the bird says, "No, that is not my egg. Ask the owl. Maybe it is his egg." Cat and Dog walk to the owl.... | 164 | 25 | 1 | 1.251857 | 0.532549 | 114.03 | -1.02 | -2.81 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.37043 | 0.37561 | 39.713745 | 1,327 |
2,773 | Ehud de Shalit
| Prime Numbers–Why are They So Exciting? | null | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00040 | 2,018 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Prime numbers have occupied human attention since ancient times and were even associated with the supernatural. Even today, in modern times, there are people trying to provide prime numbers with mystical properties. The well-known astronomer and science author Carl Sagan wrote a book in 1985 called "Contact," dealing w... | 170 | 9 | 2 | -1.457809 | 0.491528 | 44.04 | 11.89 | 13.18 | 13 | 10.07 | 0.20736 | 0.18957 | 13.568181 | 1,184 |
6,781 | Wyn Roosevelt | Frontier Boys on the Coast
or in the Pirate's Power | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25473/25473-h/25473-h.htm | 1,909 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Then, suddenly, his hand struck a stone wall. Groping his way, he turned a sharp corner and followed along a low narrow passageway that obliged him to stoop. Then came the sound of the moaning just ahead. Jack Cales was a brave man but it was all that he could do, to keep from turning and running in panic for the mouth... | 191 | 13 | 3 | -1.149492 | 0.481341 | 85.25 | 5.06 | 5.78 | 7 | 6.66 | 0.0942 | 0.08017 | 17.009861 | 4,165 |
6,179 | James Baldwin | Fifty Famous People | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6168/pg6168-images.html | 1,912 | Info | Lit | 500 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | "Well, then," said the teacher, "you may take your slate and go out behind the schoolhouse for half an hour. Think of something to write about, and write the word on your slate. Then try to tell what it is, what it is like, what it is good for, and what is done with it. That is the way to write a composition."
Henry to... | 188 | 15 | 7 | 0.381252 | 0.51486 | 92.1 | 3.63 | 3.46 | 5 | 5.25 | 0.03504 | 0.03695 | 28.451616 | 3,669 |
4,340 | Saki | The Open Window | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-open-window | 1,914 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | She broke off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with a whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance.
"I hope Vera has been amusing you?" she said.
"She has been very interesting," said Framton.
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7,282 | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Brave Queen of Hungary | Junior Classics Vol. 7 | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6302/pg6302-images.html | 2,004 | Lit | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | In the year 1439 died King Albert, who had been appointed King of Hungary in right of his wife, Queen Elizabeth. He left a little daughter only four years old, and as the Magyars had never been governed by a female hand, they proposed to send and offer their crown, and the hand of their young widowed queen, to Wladisla... | 170 | 5 | 1 | -1.305306 | 0.461432 | 68.81 | 12.11 | 14.36 | 10 | 7.46 | 0.12673 | 0.13357 | 16.456609 | 4,521 |
2,537 | Cristy Phillips
Aaron Baldridge
Colin Phillips
Mehmet Akif Baktir
Atoossa Fahimi | Might Lifestyle Choices Reduce the Risk of Depression? | null | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00137 | 2,019 | Info | Lit | 900 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 2 | Depression is a mental illness that impacts millions of people. It affects the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Depression is more intense than the experience of sadness. Important symptoms of depression include low mood, loss of pleasure, weight loss or gain, low energy, and feelings of hopelessness. These sym... | 141 | 13 | 2 | 1.079362 | 0.596571 | 56.93 | 8.03 | 8 | 10 | 9.4 | 0.24099 | 0.24815 | 15.708523 | 959 |
4,691 | Emma Louise Smythe | Jason and the Dragon | A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7841/7841-h/7841-h.htm#i | 1,896 | Lit | Lit | 300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Thor was always going on long journeys. One day he went off and left Sif alone. She went out on the porch and fell asleep.
Loki came along. He was always playing tricks.
He saw Sif lying asleep. He said, "I am going to cut off her hair."
So Loki went up on the porch and cut off Sif's golden hair.
When Sif woke up and s... | 164 | 27 | 12 | -0.016202 | 0.48089 | 102.83 | 0.59 | -1.15 | 5 | 5.77 | -0.04307 | -0.05398 | 36.264371 | 2,515 |
6,245 | Henry C. Watson | The Old Bell Of Independence; Or, Philadelphia In 1776 | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11506/pg11506-images.html | 1,852 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | start | null | G | 1 | 1 | It was a season of unparalleled enthusiasm and rejoicing, when General Lafayette, the friend and supporter of American Independence, responded to the wishes of the people of the United States, and came to see their prosperity, and to hear their expressions of gratitude. The national heartbeat joyfully in anticipation; ... | 169 | 6 | 3 | -0.830378 | 0.466653 | 33.94 | 15.61 | 18.17 | 17 | 9.39 | 0.19087 | 0.19737 | 3.880314 | 3,726 |
4,033 | H.H. Asquith | Britains Unsheathed Sword | New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15478/15478-h/15478-h.htm#toc_42 | 1,915 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | It is a good rule in war to concentrate your forces on the main theatre and not to dissipate them in disconnected and sporadic adventures, however promising they may appear to be. That consideration, I need hardly say, has not been lost sight of in the councils of the Allies. There has been and there will be no denudat... | 186 | 6 | 1 | -1.953775 | 0.507115 | 51.65 | 13.76 | 15.53 | 14 | 8.74 | 0.23021 | 0.22719 | 11.003923 | 2,122 |
7,121 | Charles Herbert Sylvester | Literature and Its Forms | Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10. | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24857/24857-h/24857-h.htm#CHAPTER_XIII | 1,922 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The great bulk of the writings of the world is in prose. It is the medium of hard sense, of practical knowledge, of argument and of dialogue. Yet often it appeals to the imagination, charms with its beauty and inspires to heroic deeds.
It seems to be generally accepted that four methods of expression are to be found in... | 175 | 7 | 2 | -1.265645 | 0.475417 | 50.09 | 12.52 | 13.36 | 14 | 8.83 | 0.2601 | 0.2601 | 17.277054 | 4,389 |
6,091 | Jessica McBirney | Duke Ellington | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/duke-ellington | 2,017 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Ellington started taking piano lessons at age seven. He did not take the lessons very seriously or practice well for the first few years. He often skipped his lessons in favor of playing baseball because he did not think he was a good pianist. But by the time he was fourteen, he started sneaking into music clubs and li... | 180 | 10 | 2 | 0.218459 | 0.479094 | 59.14 | 9.53 | 9.63 | 11 | 7.32 | 0.03867 | 0.02768 | 19.830801 | 3,638 |
3,544 | Shirley Chisholm | Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Announcement Speech Transcript | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/shirley-chisholm-s-presidential-announcement-speech-transcript | 1,972 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 2 | I have faith in the American people. I believe that we are smart enough to correct our mistakes. I believe that we are intelligent enough to recognize the talent, energy, and dedication that all Americans have to offer. I know from my travels to the cities and the small towns of America that we have vast potential whic... | 198 | 8 | 1 | -0.528373 | 0.489606 | 49.26 | 12.54 | 12.9 | 14 | 8.21 | 0.23662 | 0.22143 | 15.48884 | 1,825 |
2,188 | wikipedia | Light-year | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year | 2,020 | Info | Science | 1,500 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 | G | 1 | 1 | The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.46 trillion kilometres (9.46 x 1012 km) or 5.88 trillion miles (5.88 x 1012 mi). As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year (365.25 d... | 172 | 6 | 3 | -3.256312 | 0.581264 | 56.73 | 11.77 | 13.42 | 12 | 11.29 | 0.19565 | 0.20186 | 9.87412 | 645 |
4,743 | Rebecca H. Davis | A Fox and a Raven | Junior Classics, Vol 6 | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6577/pg6577-images.html | 1,893 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Jenny set the table for the tea party under a big oak. There was a flat place on one of the round roots that rose out of the moss, which was the very thing for a table. So there she spread the little white and gold plates and cups and saucers, with the meat dish (every bit as large as your hand), in the middle, full of... | 179 | 10 | 3 | 0.544241 | 0.522939 | 89.11 | 5.88 | 6.56 | 0 | 5.51 | 0.05307 | 0.0679 | 15.920576 | 2,553 |
3,217 | Apoorva Rajiv Madipakkam, Karin Ludwig, Marcus Rothkirch, & Guido Hesselmann | Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Interacting with Invisible Objects | null | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2015.00004 | 2,015 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Using a method called continuous flash suppression (CFS), which is based on the same principle as binocular rivalry, we can make objects invisible to people who have normal vision. In the CFS method, one eye is presented with the image of interest, also called the target, while at the same time the other eye is made to... | 176 | 6 | 2 | -2.292319 | 0.48191 | 49.75 | 13.65 | 14.59 | 15 | 9.29 | 0.28229 | 0.26922 | 18.322614 | 1,557 |
5,095 | ? | Spinning with a Mule | Scientific American Supplement, Nos. 362 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8687/8687-h/8687-h.htm#2 | 1,882 | Info | Lit | 1,700 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Finally, we claim, by the use of this invention, to be able to spin any fibrous material which can be drawn by draught-rolls, of any required degree of softness of twist, such as can be spun by any mule whatever, and to do this with the attention only of children of from twelve to fourteen years of age.
We also claim a... | 182 | 4 | 3 | -2.463243 | 0.490009 | 39.62 | 19.22 | 22.76 | 14 | 9.6 | 0.23874 | 0.2358 | 3.371089 | 2,836 |
5,198 | ? | COST OF POWER TO MAKE FLOUR. | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 365 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18763/18763-h/18763-h.htm | 1,882 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | "Supposing a mill with six pairs of stones, two pairs of porcelain roller mills, and the necessary dressing, purifying, and wheat cleaning machinery to require a steam motor of 100 indicated horse power to drive it, then the average consumption of fuel in this mill would be 200 lb. of coal per hour. Such a mill working... | 182 | 7 | 1 | -2.470038 | 0.57199 | 60.25 | 13.85 | 15.86 | 12 | 9.01 | 0.21662 | 0.21787 | 12.081438 | 2,915 |
3,279 | Nozizwe Herero, Siya Masuku | Amazing Daisy | African Storybook Level 3 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/# | 2,015 | Lit | Lit | 500 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Daisy wouldn't give up. Every day she practiced by herself, flapping her wings. Flap, flap, flap, she would flap her wings but she couldn't lift off the ground. While she practiced, she imagined herself flying high into the sky and looking at the chickens below. She imagined herself flying past the sparrows and past th... | 177 | 22 | 1 | 0.372501 | 0.500238 | 93.93 | 2.15 | 2.44 | 5 | 5.38 | 0.10032 | 0.09776 | 20.715067 | 1,608 |
5,682 | Alfred Selwyn | THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND | The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII.
A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24476/24476-h/24476-h.htm#Page_65 | 1,873 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The pigeons did not seem to be at all disturbed or frightened by the noise of carriages or the press of people; but would fly down, and light on the peddler's wrist, and peck the food from the palm of his hand.
He had made them so tame, that they would often light on his shoulders or on his head; and, if he put food in... | 184 | 7 | 4 | 0.12689 | 0.490513 | 77.02 | 9.15 | 11.61 | 8 | 6.57 | 0.1123 | 0.11081 | 15.330644 | 3,334 |
4,835 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm | 1,886 | Lit | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Throughout the longest period of human history—one calls it the prehistoric period—the value or non-value of an action was inferred from its consequences; the action in itself was not taken into consideration, any more than its origin; but pretty much as in China at present, where the distinction or disgrace of a child... | 189 | 3 | 1 | -2.360009 | 0.494409 | 28.11 | 21.32 | 24.31 | 16 | 10.28 | 0.25786 | 0.25291 | 6.125592 | 2,624 |
3,162 | USHistory.org | The Rise of Greek City-States: Athens Versus Sparta | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-rise-of-greek-city-states-athens-versus-sparta | 2,016 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | PG | 2 | 2 | The differences between Athens and Sparta eventually led to war between the two city-states. Known as the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.), both Sparta and Athens gathered allies and fought on and off for decades because no single city-state was strong enough to conquer the others.
The whole of Hellas used once to carr... | 187 | 10 | 3 | -1.722547 | 0.496987 | 56.49 | 9.72 | 10.08 | 11 | 8.7 | 0.25711 | 0.23967 | 14.600376 | 1,516 |
4,072 | John W. Burgess | PROF. BURGESS'S SECOND ARTICLE. | The New York Times Current History of the European War | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16702/16702-h/16702-h.htm | 1,915 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | On the 19th day of April, 1839, Belgium and Holland, which from 1815 to 1830 had formed the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, signed a treaty of separation from, and independence of, each other. It is in this treaty that the original pledge of Belgian neutrality is to be found. The clause of the treaty reads: "Belgium... | 142 | 5 | 1 | -1.310669 | 0.482566 | 49.92 | 13.35 | 15.05 | 13 | 10.6 | 0.36136 | 0.3906 | 6.942725 | 2,136 |
4,349 | the following official communication was telegraphed to the foreign press by the Government Bureau on Aug. 9, 1914 | Servia and Her Neighbors | The European War, Vol. 1 - No. 6 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20521/20521-h/20521-h.htm#Servia_and_Her_Neighbors | 1,914 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | end | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | The Serbian mobilization was effected with marvelous order, and once more it proved the good military organization of Serbia, and how much the country can rely on the patriotic devotion of her soldiers.
Notwithstanding the erroneous statements of a part of the foreign press, notwithstanding the speedy development of ev... | 156 | 7 | 3 | -2.024823 | 0.484428 | 43.1 | 12.85 | 14.33 | 14 | 9.95 | 0.23417 | 0.25891 | 7.476017 | 2,257 |
3,594 | T. F. Powys | Alleluia | Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors by Dawson Scott and Rhys | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62347/62347-h/62347-h.htm | 1,931 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Alleluia had come down from Oxford, and his confiding and childlike look, together with his silky moustache, had led him into the bypaths and hedges and so on and on until he reached the village of Wallbridge.
There were, of course, troubles in even so gentle a young man's path; there were difficulties and doubts—litt... | 182 | 10 | 4 | -1.739581 | 0.474856 | 66.08 | 9.12 | 10.64 | 10 | 8.34 | 0.16325 | 0.1398 | 14.137168 | 1,864 |
2,882 | Addison Gifty Naana | Result of disobedience | African Storybook Level 4 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/ | 2,017 | Lit | Lit | 700 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Kwesi's parents were Papa and Maame. Maame always advised her son, "Don't swim in any river or sea because it is dangerous."
During the school vacation, Kweku Twum travelled to Simpa (Winneba). He went to spend the holiday with his uncle, Kobina Amfo who was a very good fisherman. Kobina Amfo had many canoes at Simpa.... | 198 | 19 | 8 | -1.061225 | 0.473119 | 74.06 | 5.52 | 4.47 | 8 | 7.34 | 0.01384 | -0.01219 | 24.749772 | 1,279 |
4,318 | LIEUT. GEN. VON NIEBER | LETTER ADDRESSED ON AUG. 27, 1914, BY LIEUT. GEN. VON NIEBER TO THE BURGOMASTER OF WAVRE | The European War, Vol. 1 - No. 6 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20521/20521-h/20521-h.htm#Why_Belgium_Was_Devastated | 1,914 | Info | Lit | 1,700 | start | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | On Aug. 22, 1914, the General commanding the Second Army, Herr von Bülow, imposed upon the City of Wavre a war levy of three million francs, to be paid before Sept. 1, as expiation for its unqualifiable behavior (contrary to the law of nations and the usages of war) in making a surprise attack on the German troops.
The... | 160 | 4 | 4 | -2.767057 | 0.556905 | 45.06 | 17.1 | 19.15 | 13 | 9.24 | 0.28568 | 0.31195 | 8.850675 | 2,234 |
3,894 | ? | THE FOURTH VOYAGE | The Junior Classics, V5 | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6328/pg6328-images.html | 1,917 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | start | null | G | 1 | 1 | After I had rested from the dangers of my third voyage, my passion for trade and my love of novelty soon again prevailed. I therefore settled my affairs, and provided a stock of goods fit for the traffic I designed to engage in. I took the route of Persia, travelled over several provinces, and then arrived at a port, w... | 188 | 8 | 2 | -1.427392 | 0.46237 | 68.71 | 9.54 | 10.68 | 9 | 8.15 | 0.19083 | 0.19758 | 10.269564 | 2,083 |
6,544 | Henry Beston | THE SHEPHERD OF CLOUDS | The Firelight Fairy Book | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19207/19207-h/19207-h.htm | 1,919 | Lit | Lit | 1,300 | start | null | G | 1 | 1 | Once upon a time a young husband and wife named Giles and Phyllida lived in a cottage in the heart of a great plain. League upon league, the rich land fell away to the west, there to end at a wall of high mountains into whose fastnesses no one had ever ventured. Yet the mountains were very beautiful. In the cold of a c... | 189 | 7 | 1 | -1.220514 | 0.489423 | 71.09 | 10.09 | 12.09 | 7 | 6.98 | 0.1896 | 0.1863 | 5.838568 | 3,961 |
1,963 | wikipedia | Collimator | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collimator | 2,020 | Info | Technology | 1,300 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 | PG | 2 | 1.5 | A collimator is a device that narrows a beam of particles or waves. To narrow can mean either to cause the directions of motion to become more aligned in a specific direction (i.e., make collimated light or parallel rays), or to cause the spatial cross section of the beam to become smaller (beam limiting device).
An En... | 149 | 8 | 4 | -2.536905 | 0.536402 | 51.4 | 10.84 | 10.7 | 12 | 10.47 | 0.26344 | 0.27877 | 6.365693 | 438 |
1,530 | F. J. H. Darton | Horn is Dubbed Knight | Junior Classics Vol. 4 | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6323/pg6323-images.html | 1,909 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | They set out for the king's palace. When they were come thither, Aylmer entrusted them to his steward, Athelbrus, whom he charged to bring them up in knightly ways. They were added to Aylmer's household, and taught all that squires of kings should know. But Horn was to come to greater things than this. He learnt quickl... | 139 | 8 | 3 | -1.61771 | 0.501322 | 84.55 | 5.85 | 7.28 | 8 | 6.75 | 0.03718 | 0.08261 | 17.34636 | 321 |
2,497 | simple wiki | Ancestor | null | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestor | 2,019 | Info | History | 900 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL | G | 1 | 1 | An ancestor is a person from whom one is descended. Usually it refers to a remote person, rather than the immediate parents or grandparents. A very similar word is forebear. A female ancestor may be called an ancestress. The line of people from whom a person descends is referred to as their ancestry.
A second meaning r... | 175 | 14 | 4 | -0.204233 | 0.477578 | 61.33 | 7.86 | 6.16 | 11 | 8.7 | 0.25285 | 0.24676 | 18.629719 | 924 |
1,173 | Angela Brazil | The Luckiest Girl in the School | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18019/18019-h/18019-h.htm | 2,006 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The Camp consisted of a long wooden shelter or shed, the south side of which was entirely open to the air. The boarded floor was raised about three feet above the level of the field, and projected well beyond the roof line, thus forming a kind of terrace. Inside the shelter was a row of small beds, and a space was curt... | 151 | 9 | 1 | -0.645077 | 0.480117 | 77.26 | 6.68 | 7.03 | 8 | 6.55 | 0.14442 | 0.1716 | 8.883552 | 198 |
4,811 | James Mooney | Myths of the Cherokee | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45634/45634-h/45634-h.htm#ch5.4 | 1,888 | Lit | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 2 | When one dreams of being bitten by a snake he must be treated the same as for an actual bite, because it is a snake ghost that has bitten him; otherwise the place will swell and ulcerate in the same way, even though it be years afterwards. For fear of offending them, even in speaking, it is never said that a man has be... | 150 | 5 | 2 | -0.937659 | 0.456861 | 59.09 | 12.52 | 14.07 | 12 | 7.96 | 0.19719 | 0.21601 | 14.131986 | 2,604 |
2,426 | wikipedia | Toad | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad | 2,020 | Info | Science | 1,300 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 | G | 1 | 1 | A toad is any of a number of species of amphibians in the order Anura (frogs) that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and parotoid glands.
A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drie... | 146 | 5 | 3 | -1.067089 | 0.451521 | 30.46 | 16.36 | 17.36 | 17 | 9.8 | 0.38567 | 0.39272 | 4.263446 | 860 |
3,148 | Roni Tibon & Elisa Cooper | When One Is More Than Two: Increasing Our Memory | null | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2016.00011 | 2,016 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | When scientists talk about working memory they mean a kind of memory that works to keep things in our minds for only a very short time, like a few seconds; you only need to hold that information until you deal with the situation or problem, then you can forget it. Unless we do something to keep the information in mind,... | 161 | 6 | 2 | -0.368359 | 0.477596 | 52.87 | 12.76 | 12.92 | 13 | 7.01 | 0.12137 | 0.1201 | 25.598528 | 1,505 |
4,746 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | An Old Town By The Sea | null | http://www.online-literature.com/thomas-bailey-aldrich/old-town/2/ | 1,893 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The town of Portsmouth stretches along the south bank of the Piscataqua, about two miles from the sea as the crow flies--three miles following the serpentine course of the river. The stream broadens suddenly at this point, and at flood tide, lying without a ripple in a basin formed by the interlocked islands and the ma... | 168 | 7 | 1 | -1.502851 | 0.517094 | 69.2 | 9.61 | 11.3 | 10 | 7.64 | 0.18648 | 0.20425 | 4.426455 | 2,556 |
2,204 | simple wiki | Marco_Polo | null | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo | 2,020 | Info | History | 900 | mid | CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Polo went on a 24-year trip to China with his father and uncle during the Mongol Dynasty. He left Venice at the age of 17 on a boat that went through the Mediterranean Sea, Ayas, Tabriz and Kerman. Then he travelled across Asia getting as far as Beijing. On the way there he had to go over mountains and through terrible... | 191 | 13 | 3 | -0.914086 | 0.49324 | 74.82 | 6.53 | 6.59 | 8 | 7.39 | 0.1188 | 0.10444 | 13.432654 | 661 |
4,360 | Wells Hastings | GIDEON | The Best American Humorous Short Stories | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10947/10947-h/10947-h.htm | 1,914 | Lit | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | A now-hallowed attack of tonsilitis had driven him to Florida, where presently Gideon had been employed to beguile his convalescence, and guide him over the intricate shallows of that long lagoon known as the Indian River in search of various fish. On days when fish had been reluctant Gideon had been lured into convers... | 189 | 7 | 2 | -3.02922 | 0.53304 | 48.48 | 13.28 | 14.03 | 13 | 9.04 | 0.22621 | 0.2125 | 10.181127 | 2,264 |
5,812 | Selected and Edited by Andrew Lang | The Story of the Merchant and the Genius | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/128/128-h/128-h.htm | 1,868 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Sire, there was once upon a time a merchant who possessed great wealth, in land and merchandise, as well as in ready money. He was obliged from time to time to take journeys to arrange his affairs. One day, having to go a long way from home, he mounted his horse, taking with him a small wallet in which he had put a few... | 183 | 8 | 1 | -0.434453 | 0.450248 | 76.82 | 8.26 | 9 | 6 | 5.81 | 0.04262 | 0.05444 | 16.564583 | 3,444 |
2,422 | Thomas Pool | Coming of Age Ceremonies Across Different Cultures | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/coming-of-age-ceremonies-across-different-cultures | 2,020 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 | PG | 2 | 1.5 | In the Jewish faith, after years of Hebrew and Torah1 study, 12 to 13-year-old boys and girls participate in a celebration. The ceremony for boys is called a bar mitzvah, and the ceremony for girls is called a bat mitzvah. This literally translates from Hebrew as "son" or "daughter of the commandments."
Jewish historia... | 176 | 9 | 3 | -0.827984 | 0.46021 | 52.59 | 10.89 | 10.27 | 13 | 9.37 | 0.2369 | 0.23567 | 12.394318 | 856 |
3,037 | Shelby Ostergaard | Eleanor Roosevelt: Not Without Her Consent | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/eleanor-roosevelt-not-without-her-consent | 2,017 | Info | Lit | 900 | mid | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, to a prominent American family. In fact, her uncle Teddy Roosevelt had been president of the United States. She was a shy child who experienced great loss at a young age — her mother died when she was just eight, and her father died just two years later. ... | 197 | 12 | 3 | 1.269223 | 0.593606 | 70.88 | 7.47 | 7.46 | 10 | 7.57 | 0.0417 | 0.02283 | 18.662374 | 1,413 |
4,755 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The Solitude of Self | CLD | https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-solitude-of-self | 1,892 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | start | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the c... | 177 | 3 | 1 | -1.379444 | 0.511548 | 17.42 | 25.49 | 29.95 | 18 | 9.51 | 0.32305 | 0.33626 | 8.81663 | 2,563 |
6,235 | Annie Russell Marble | The Women Who Came in the Mayflower | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7252/7252-h/7252-h.htm | 1,920 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Squanto showed the men how to plant alewives or herring as fertilizer for the Indian corn. He taught the boys and girls how to gather clams and mussels on the shore and to "tread eels" in the water that is still called Eel River. He gathered wild strawberries and sassafras for the women and they prepared a "brew" which... | 155 | 6 | 1 | -0.526204 | 0.469633 | 63.31 | 10.89 | 12.52 | 11 | 7.86 | 0.22115 | 0.2482 | 4.746193 | 3,716 |
4,524 | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Benjamin Bunny | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14407/14407-h/14407-h.htm | 1,904 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | One morning a little rabbit sat on a bank.
He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony.
A gig was coming along the road; it was driven by Mr. McGregor, and beside him sat Mrs. McGregor in her best bonnet.
As soon as they had passed, little Benjamin Bunny slid down into the road, and set off—w... | 185 | 11 | 9 | -0.197797 | 0.454965 | 72.06 | 7.73 | 7.13 | 9 | 7.22 | 0.12269 | 0.10359 | 13.910124 | 2,392 |
2,453 | wikipedia | Valley | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley | 2,020 | Info | Science | 1,100 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 | G | 1 | 1 | A valley is a low area between hills, often with a river running through it.
In geology, a valley or dale is a depression that is longer than it is wide. The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys. Most valleys belong to one of these two main types or a mixtur... | 193 | 11 | 3 | -0.388832 | 0.455785 | 74.43 | 7.33 | 7.17 | 8 | 7.49 | 0.33075 | 0.31952 | 13.137447 | 884 |
6,568 | Jacob Abbott | Rollo in London | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24182/24182-h/24182-h.htm | 1,850 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The city—which was the original London—is the most ancient. It was founded long before the days of the Romans; so long, in fact, that its origin is wholly unknown. Nor is any thing known in respect to the derivation or meaning of the name. In regard to Westminster, the name is known to come from the word minster, which... | 159 | 6 | 1 | -0.965469 | 0.5586 | 54.45 | 12.29 | 14.37 | 13 | 9.2 | 0.28376 | 0.29145 | 9.500428 | 3,983 |
5,007 | N. Joly | THE MOTIONS OF CAMPHOR UPON THE SURFACE OF WATER. | Scientific American Supplement, No. 401 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8742/8742-h/8742-h.htm | 1,883 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Starting with this idea, which was as yet a hyphothetical one, we began to wash our hands, glasses, etc., at first with very dilute sulphuric acid, and then with ammonia. Afterward we rinsed them with quantities of water and dried them carefully with white linen rags that had been used for no other purpose; and finally... | 185 | 7 | 2 | -2.434224 | 0.50445 | 52.14 | 12.62 | 13.65 | 13 | 8.09 | 0.18403 | 0.17891 | 10.216564 | 2,760 |
5,330 | PROFESSOR W. CHANDLER ROBERTS, F.R.S., and T. WRIGHTSON. | ON THE FLUID DENSITY OF CERTAIN METALS. | Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8296/8296-h/8296-h.htm | 1,881 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | The authors described their experiments on the fluid density of metals made in continuation of those submitted to Section B at the Swansea meeting of the Association. Some time since one of the authors gave an account of the results of experiments made to determine the density of metallic silver, and of certain alloys ... | 186 | 6 | 1 | -2.291102 | 0.541741 | 37.55 | 15.72 | 16.93 | 15 | 9.93 | 0.2582 | 0.2462 | 5.038109 | 3,029 |
6,276 | Elizabeth Harrison | LITTLE GRETCHEN AND THE WOODEN SHOE | CHRISTMAS STORIES AND LEGENDS | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17770/17770-h/17770-h.htm#Page_13 | 1,916 | Lit | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | "Oh, Granny, Granny!" she exclaimed; "you did not believe the Christmas angels would think about us, but see, they have, they have! Here is a dear little bird nestled down in the toe of your shoe! Oh, isn't he beautiful?"
Granny came forward and looked at what the child was holding lovingly in her hand. There she saw a... | 158 | 8 | 2 | 0.823504 | 0.527618 | 80.26 | 7.06 | 8.35 | 7 | 6.5 | 0.06687 | 0.07741 | 16.594291 | 3,755 |
5,963 | Edgar Allan Poe | THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2147/2147-h/2147-h.htm | 1,841 | Lit | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18—, I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin. This young gentleman was of an excellent—indeed of an illustrious family, but, by a variety of untoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of his character succumbed benea... | 172 | 6 | 2 | -2.675253 | 0.470405 | 43.58 | 14.34 | 14.99 | 15 | 9.08 | 0.25814 | 0.28321 | 2.804325 | 3,554 |
1,186 | Jessie Graham Flower | Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School
The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20472/20472-h/20472-h.htm | 1,910 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Wolves! The name was terrifying enough. But their cry, that long-drawn-out, hungry call, gave the picnickers a chill of apprehension.
"We must take the nearest way out of the wood, Reddy," exclaimed Tom. "They are still several miles off, and, if we hurry, we may reach the open before they do."
All started on a run, Da... | 177 | 12 | 6 | -0.324015 | 0.452465 | 80.52 | 5.86 | 6.1 | 8 | 7.22 | 0.08749 | 0.08088 | 16.582659 | 211 |
5,206 | ? | Eddystone Lighthouse | Scientific American Supplement, Nos. 286 | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8297/8297-h/8297-h.htm#5 | 1,881 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | In the latter part of April fifty-three courses of granite masonry, rising to the height of seventy feet above high water, had been laid, and thirty-six courses remained to be set. The old lighthouse had been already overtopped. As the work advances toward completion the question arises: What shall be done with John Sm... | 203 | 6 | 1 | -2.755437 | 0.500409 | 44.27 | 15.61 | 17.52 | 15 | 9.4 | 0.3349 | 0.30224 | 10.307394 | 2,921 |
3,658 | William H. Ukers | All About Coffee | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28500/28500-h/28500-h.htm | 1,922 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 1.5 | Coffee first appears in the official records of the New England colony in 1670. In 1683, the year following William Penn's settlement on the Delaware, we find him buying supplies of coffee in the New York market and paying for them at the rate of eighteen shillings and nine pence per pound.
Coffee houses patterned afte... | 172 | 9 | 4 | -0.268395 | 0.48357 | 69.14 | 8.45 | 10.1 | 10 | 8.66 | 0.09462 | 0.09156 | 12.42667 | 1,913 |
2,671 | simple wiki | Parliament | null | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament | 2,019 | Info | History | 1,100 | start | CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL | G | 1 | 1 | A parliament is a type of legislature.
The most famous parliament is probably the one in the United Kingdom, which is sometimes called the "Mother of all Parliaments". The word "parliament" comes from the French word parler, which means a talk.
The Althing, the national parliament of Iceland, was founded earlier (930 A... | 178 | 10 | 4 | -1.326655 | 0.453352 | 56.19 | 9.92 | 9.52 | 13 | 9.25 | 0.19051 | 0.18655 | 16.351647 | 1,087 |
6,241 | H. E. Marshall | This Country of Ours | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3761/pg3761-images.html | 1,917 | Info | Lit | 900 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | In days long long ago there dwelt in Greenland a King named Eric the
Red. He was a man mighty in war, and men held him in high honor.
Now one day to the court of Eric there came Bjarni the son of Heriulf. This Bjarni was a far traveler. He had sailed many times upon the seas, and when he came home he had ever some fres... | 164 | 10 | 5 | -1.310668 | 0.513293 | 86.59 | 4.98 | 4.83 | 7 | 5.8 | 0.04092 | 0.04366 | 23.82783 | 3,722 |
5,306 | M. J. TAYLOR | BERTIE AT HIS UNCLE'S | The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX
A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40753/40753-h/40753-h.htm#Page_50 | 1,881 | Lit | Lit | 700 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | Bertie is a brave little boy: so he marches straight up to the door,—which stands open,—and looks out. Then he claps his chubby hands, and shouts, "Oh! it was my uncle Frank under the table. I forgot he was such a funny man. Oh, uncle Frank! How can you get in the house and out of the house, and nobody see you?"
"Look ... | 151 | 14 | 2 | -0.603442 | 0.46508 | 91.24 | 3.25 | 2.72 | 5 | 6.04 | 0.05672 | 0.07477 | 17.42952 | 3,006 |
3,280 | Oku Modesto,
Salim Kasamba | Elders | African Storybook Level 3 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/# | 2,015 | Lit | Lit | 500 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Then he would say to the next child, "I am old enough for meat. Here is yours. Wait until you are older." Each small portion became even smaller. It went like this for all the children. The youngest child got a tiny piece of meat. The father kept the big pieces of meat for himself and his wife. The children were quiet ... | 191 | 21 | 1 | 0.51236 | 0.502434 | 92.19 | 2.66 | 2.64 | 5 | 0.78 | 0.02366 | 0.01568 | 29.918396 | 1,609 |
2,542 | Devon S. Heath
Dana A. Hayward | Does Everyone Pay Attention to People in the Same Way? | null | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00130 | 2,019 | Info | Lit | 1,300 | mid | null | G | 1 | 1 | By filtering out any unimportant background information, attention helps you focus on different tasks like drawing a complex scene, playing video games, or reading this article. Attention can also help direct you to especially important information, like a siren or your name, so attention is a very necessary skill for ... | 185 | 7 | 2 | -0.268543 | 0.450272 | 39.77 | 14.31 | 15.67 | 16 | 8.1 | 0.17054 | 0.14845 | 19.907614 | 964 |
3,584 | Wilbur S. Peacock | Prey of the Space Falcon | null | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62546/62546-h/62546-h.htm | 1,943 | Lit | Lit | 900 | mid | null | PG | 2 | 2 | Curt Varga's throat muscles tightened as he sent his inaudible questions to his brother in the curtained booth across the room.
"Is there any suspicion that you are working with me?" he asked. "If so, then this arrangement must be broken; I can't ruin your career, too."
The bean-sized amplifier imbedded so cunningly in... | 188 | 12 | 5 | -1.480371 | 0.462594 | 65.41 | 8.49 | 8.57 | 11 | 8.84 | 0.20933 | 0.18747 | 10.667196 | 1,856 |
2,270 | Ntokozo Tshabalala, Kenneth Boyowa
Okitikpi | A crying
unknown baby | African Storybook Level 3 | https://www.africanstorybook.org/# | 2,020 | Lit | Lit | 700 | start | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | There was a boy who was named John. He lived with his grandparents in a village called Daveyton Village in Free State. John grew up. He took a walk around the village and he saw a crying baby. He rushed there called for help. The community of the village rushed to him and asked him what happened. John replied "I was ta... | 143 | 13 | 1 | 0.179809 | 0.513993 | 86.43 | 3.74 | 2.94 | 6 | 7.12 | -0.00752 | 0.01312 | 28.364816 | 721 |
2,928 | Diana Gutiérrez, Lucía Fernández, Beatriz Martínez, Ana Rodríguez, and Pilar García | Bacteriophages: The Enemies of Bad Bacteria Are Our Friends! | Frontiers for Young Minds | https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2016.00030 | 2,017 | Info | Lit | 1,100 | mid | CC BY 4.0 | G | 1 | 1 | Antibiotics have been used for almost a century to treat bacterial diseases in humans and also in animals. Throughout this time, bacteria have been looking for strategies to survive antibiotic treatment. Imagine a battlefield, where a population of bacteria is attacked by small bullets (antibiotics). If one of the bact... | 172 | 10 | 1 | 0.145879 | 0.459837 | 47.2 | 11 | 10.77 | 14 | 8.4 | 0.21326 | 0.20688 | 16.406884 | 1,317 |
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