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Dive into the captivating history of Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, narrated by the insightful liberal Irish MP, Justin McCarthy. Experience the vibrant personalities of the time—Victoria and Albert, Russell and Peel, OConnell and Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli—as McCarthy chronicles significant events like the Afghan War, the Irish famine, and the Crimean War. All the while, he keeps the hopes and struggles of everyday people at the forefront, painting a vivid picture of an era that shaped a nation.

Original stories of mountain men between 1833 and 1837 traveling from the Missouri River, through the plains and Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific and back, with all the different Indians and Indian wars they observed from the opposite point of view - from Indians themselves, like Zitkala-Sa, in American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends.

Hören Sie vier Perry Rhodan-Abenteuer aus der "Edition Thoregon": "Mission in Fornax" (Perry Rhodan Nr. 1836): In der von politischen Wirren heimgesuchten Milchstraße haben die Tolkander mit ihren geheimnisvollen Igelschiffen eine Invasion begonnen; die galaktischen Großmächte agieren bislang weitgehend hilflos. Planeten wurden von Gazkar, Neezer, Alazar und Eloundar besetzt und von der restlichen Galaxis abgeschirmt. Ein Haluter sucht nun weitere Informationen und geht in eine MISSION IN FORNAX...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of A Winter Evening by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 13, 2022.-----Pushkin is a well-known Russian author and poet. Bianchi, the translator, was the niece of Emily Dickinson and is best known as an editor of Dickinson's poems. - Summary by TriciaG

La prima edizione dei Canti fu pubblicata a Napoli, curata dall'autore, nel 1835. Superficialmente sarebbe potuta apparire un'ennesima raccolta della tradizione classicista italiana. Nulla di nuovo infatti nel contenuto e nel linguaggio. Il pessimismo e la noia sono temi che dall'Ecclesiaste erano apparsi regolarmente nella letteratura occidentale, da quella classica fino al Werther. Le sferzate poetiche contro la decadenza politica e civile della “patria”, le cui prime attestazioni nella tradizione culturale occidentale risalgono ai profeti veterotestamentari, già in Dante e Petrarca ...

In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively 1897 memoir was written from the extensive notes he took during that time. It is highly regarded by later historians. Porter continued in that position with Grant to 1869. From 1869 to 1872 he served Grant as personal secretary in the White House. He was U.S. ambassador to France from 1897-1905. ( David Wales)