Olympic games (Ancient) -- Origin
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Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, by Jane Ellen Harrison (page images at Chicago)
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- The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
- The Origin of Christianity, and a Commentary to the Acts of the Apostles (Cincinnati: Bloch and Co., 1868), by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)
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- The Antiquity of Man, by Charles Lyell, ed. by R. H. Rastall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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- The Last Link: Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898), by Ernst Haeckel, ed. by Hans Gadow
- Man's Place in Nature, and Other Anthropological Essays (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Manual of the Antiquity of Man (ninth edition; Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1880), by J. P. MacLean (multiple formats at archive.org)
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- Preadamites: or, A Demonstration of the Existence of Men Before Adam, Together With a Study of Their Condition, Antiquity, Racial Affinities, and Progressive Dispersion Over the Earth (fourth edition; Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trubner and Co., 1888), by Alexander Winchell
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- The History of Creation: or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by E. Ray Lankester
- The History of Creation: or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by E. Ray Lankester
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- Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen (third, revised edition, in German; Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1877), by Ernst Haeckel (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)
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- The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Ernst Haeckel
- The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study (2 volumes in 1; London: Watts and Co., 1906), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
- The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study (2 volumes; London: Watts and Co., 1911-1912), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
- Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, c1986), by Dan Vogel (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Essay on the Propagation of the Gospel: In Which There Are Numerous Facts and Arguments Adduced to Prove That Many of the Indians in America Are Descended From the Ten Tribes (second edition; Philadelphia: J. Humphreys, 1801), by Charles Crawford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The First Discovery of America, and Its Early Civilization (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1863), by F. Kruger, trans. by W. L. Wagener
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: J. C. Colt.; et al., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (Cincinnati: N. G. Burgess and Co., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoir on the European Colonization of America, in Ante-Historic Times (1851), by Augustus Christian Adolf Zestermann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (first edition; Philadelphia: Printed for the author by J. Bioren, 1797), by Benjamin Smith Barton
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (second edition; Philadelphia: Printed for the author by J. Bioeren, 1798), by Benjamin Smith Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Origin of the Native Races of America: A Dissertation By Hugo Grotius; A Treatise of Foreign Languages and Unknown Islands By Peter Albinus (1884), by Hugo Grotius and Peter Albinus, trans. by Edmund Goldsmid
- The Ten Tribes of Israel: or, The True History of the North American Indians, Showing That They are the Descendants of These Ten Tribes (Springfield, OH: Houck and Smith, 1883), by Timothy R. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
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- Adair's History of the American Indians (edited under the auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America; Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1930), by James Adair, ed. by Samuel Cole Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
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- Asiatic Tribes in North America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Geschichte der Amerikanischen Indianer: Besonders der am Missisippi, an Ost-und Westflorida, Georgien, Sud-und Nord-Karolina und Virginien Angrenzenden Nationen, Nebst Einem Anhange (in German; Wroclaw: J. E. Meyer, 1782), by James Adair, trans. by Schack Hermann Ewald
- The History of the American Indians, Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1775), by James Adair
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- Light and Truth: Collected From the Bible and Ancient and Modern History, Containing the Universal History of the Colored and the Indian Race, From the Creation of the World to the Present Time (Boston: Pub. by a Committee of Colored Men, B. F. Roberts, printer, 1849), by R. B. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
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