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Why? Get answers to all the questions you have about nature! This insightful, multi-volume audiobook series provides answers to the many questions churning in a young scholar's mind.

Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past 50 years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of processes at work for decades. Providing a new perspective on figures from Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush to the Tea Party and Donald Trump, it shows that the party's lurch to the far right was the product of a volatile mix of a disorganized party structure and a divided and fractious class of American business owners.

Journey back to 1884 with Professor Treves as he shares captivating narratives from his medical practice, including his profound experience with Joseph Merrick, famously known as the Elephant Man. This engrossing book of memoirs not only tells the tale of Merrick, exhibited in a shop near the London Hospital, but also delves into the intriguing world of medical science during the Victorian era through various case studies. Follow Treves as he brings Merrick from the shop to the London Hospital and transforms his life, to his untimely demise in 1890.

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him "The Elephant Man". Then someone speaks to him – and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

In late 1971 John Lennon left London behind and moved to New York, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. Lennon was quickly embraced by radicals and revolutionaries, the hippies and Yippies at odds with the establishment. Settling in Greenwich Village, the heart of Manhattan's counterculture, the former Beatle was soon on the frontlines of the antiwar movement and championing a range of causes and issues.

The Elephant Man is Treves' own firsthand account of how he met and befriended Joseph Merrick (whom he mistakenly calls John Merrick), a young man with very severe physical deformities, who was being exhibited as a sideshow freak, as half man, half elephant. Treves initially invited Merrick to his rooms in the London Hospital so as to examine him, and to ensure Merrick's admittance he gave him his card.

The Elephant & Bear podcast is dedicated to all things Coventry and Warwickshire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How An Elephant Forgets is a storytelling podcast about how working folks got hoodwinked into forgetting the blood, sweat, and strikes that built their rights—and who wanted them to forget it. From company thugs to classroom censors, from cowboys to culture wars, host Marion Cotillard Morrison… no relation… digs through the dust to remember what the powerful tried to bury.

Mémoires D'Éléphant est un podcast qui a pour but de raconter l'histoire de l'Afrique avant la colonisation. Ces histoires sont racontées par Brice Boussari, historien franco-béninois au travers d'échanges avec son fils (Régis Abiola). Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.

Formal Animator, Storyboard Artist from Film Roman and FUNimation Studios, Cartoonist, G'Ronnie created this fun platform, "Elephant In A Bow Podcast” to Socialize with fans and friends etc. Sharing tools of the trades of cartooning. Also chatting away on social events, cartooning, animation, a cartoonist life, inspirational thoughts, toys, comics, comic strips and behind the scenes of his artistry.