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Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen

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Jacob Christoph Burckhardt



Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen von Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818 - 1897), herausgegeben von Jacob Oeri (1844-1908). 1905 veröffent…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot



François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a do…

1941 Radio News


WA4CZD and P. G. Wodehouse



News from 1941. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1941 news file …

Signs of Change

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William Morris



In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

Römische Geschichte Buch 8

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Theodor Mommsen



Mommsen erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Römische Geschichte Achtes Buch (Ausgabe v…

A Popular History of the Art of Music

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W. S. B. Mathews



Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compas…

The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Sarah Orne Jewett



The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

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Gaius



The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Vol 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition'

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Robert Falcon Scott



Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time.…

Democracy In America - Single Episodes


Old Time Radio Researchers Group



DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen,…

The Prairie Traveler

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Randolph B. Marcy



Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…

France in the Nineteenth Century

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Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer



Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (S…

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

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Bartolomé De Las Casas



A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…

Pirates of Panama

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Alexandre Exquemelin



This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…

Three Years In Europe

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William Wells Brown



William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…

The Petticoat Commando

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Johanna Brandt



In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

Christmas Comes but Once a Year

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John Leighton



A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds

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William James McGlothlin



37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…

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