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Host Vv Steele takes you inside history's most jaw-dropping parties — from surreal masked balls and champagne-soaked multi-day celebrations to legendary annual bashes that became cultural phenomena. Explore the wild stories, eccentric hosts, and over-the-top spectacles that transformed ordinary gatherings into unforgettable events. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.

Power struggles have a constant presence in Martin Sixsmith's story of Russia. Collected here in 50 episodes, he chronicles the Mongol hordes invading in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's re-emergence as a superpower. Sixsmith brings his first-hand experience of reporting from Russia in the 1980s and 90s to his narrative, witnessing the critical moment when the Soviet Union lost its grip on power.

A shocking expose of the reckless proliferation of bioweapon research and development facilities across the U.S. - and the threat this poses to everyday Americans. Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King’s Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America’s biodefense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11.

40 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen ihrer chinesischen Familienchronik »Wilde Schwäne« legt Jung Chang die lange erwartete Fortsetzung des legendären Weltbestsellers vor: In »Fliegt, Wilde Schwäne« erzählt sie die Geschichte ihrer Familie – und damit auch die Geschichte Chinas – vom Ende der Mao-Ära und dem Beginn der Reformen unter Deng Xiaoping bis in die Gegenwart Xi Jinpings weiter: China hat sich von einem heruntergekommenen und isolierten Staat zu einer Weltmacht entwickelt, die die Vormachtstellung der Vereinigten Staaten herausfordert.

This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the most extraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley. Following in his footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Clarence King, Frederick Law Olmsted, Joaquin Miller, and Horace Greeley made their pilgrimages and were moved to recount their observations. Included here as well is the work of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.

Jack Kerouac but make it a girl with braids. Carrie Bradshaw, but without the sex, and also braids. An American Icon. An American Odyssey. American propaganda. Violently so, in some cases. Laura Ingalls Wilder is evergreen. For better or worse. Since the first Little House book was published in 1932, generations of readers have flocked to Laura’s cozy stories of the Ingalls family settling the Western frontier. The series inspired a TV show, pageants, and entire fashion lines. Behind this franchise is a woman who experienced almost a full century of American history. She’d made her first ...

In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled from the original shorthand court reports by an anonymous author. While a more complete account of the trial was published several years later, it omitted the more 'sensational' exchanges. This shorter version was clearly intended for a more prurient reader. In it we hear Wilde's famous defence of "the love that dare not speak its name", and see the evidence mount as a succession of attractive young men step into the witness box to tell their tales. - Summary...

How does it feel to play your last college game and land on the cover of Sports Illustrated? What was it like to be a part of the team that won the University of Kentucky’s first national championship ever? Listeners will find the answer to these questions and so much more in Ryan Clark’s newly updated edition of Game of My Life: Kentucky Wildcats. Clark takes listeners into the arena and onto the court with this in-depth look at the legends of Kentucky basketball.

In the waning years of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, when female power can only come at an unsettling price, four royal women struggle against the shadowy influence of Akhenaten, the infamous heretic pharaoh. Akhenaten wields control of a strange emerging religion unlike anything Egypt has seen. His power can't be denied, but whoever can maintain her grip on the unpredictable pharaoh will hold all of Egypt in her hands - and better still, will remain mistress of her own fate.    

Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts produced by later generations. In the case of Wilde, as presented to us by Frank Harris, we are in a way doubly estranged from the subject. We meet with Oscar the charismatic talker, whose tone of voice can never be reproduced – even if a more scrupulous biographer had set down his words accurately – and we are perhaps already aware of him as Wilde the self-destructive celebrity who...

Welcome to Wise, Wild & Woven, a NSW Rural Women’s Network podcast featuring the incredible women who make country NSW a better place to be. Wise, Wild & Woven is proudly funded by the Rural Women’s Network in the NSW Government. Your program host and producer is Dimity Brassil from A Lasting Tale.

Join acclaimed travel writer and incurably curious hiker Tom Chesshyre in this celebration of the Peak District, Britain’s first National Park, on its 75th anniversary 'Funny, fair and honest, and effortlessly readable' Matthew Parris In the heart of England lies a fascinating landscape of...

Ranger Theo Wilder unravels the untamed history of America's wild mustangs—ancient natives turned Spanish returnees turned modern controversy. Discover how these iconic horses survived extinction, dog food canneries, and bureaucratic battles to thunder across Western ranges today. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Alex Calder strips away Hollywood fiction to reveal the real Wild West—where outlaws were squalid criminals, the cowboy myth was manufactured by East Coast elites, and frontier towns enforced strict gun control. Drawing on documentary evidence, the series exposes how America's enduring mythology was deliberately constructed. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Host Jack Maddox digs into historical records, crime reports, and firsthand accounts from Dodge City's wildest years to separate documented fact from dime-novel legend. Discover how firearms ordinances, buffalo hide commerce, and 18 gunshot deaths in one pivotal year created America's most mythologized frontier town. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

In Wilderlands, archaeologist Eloise Kane unearths 12,000 years of our changing relationship with and influence on the landscape. Through prehistory, Roman occupation, the Middle Ages and beyond, we see the unfamiliar beasts of our old wild make way for species such as brown hare and fallow deer, now romanticised as eternal symbols of the British countryside, but introduced much later than we might think. Places free from our influence haven't existed for a very long time. But Eloise Kane invites us to rethink our definition of the wild - not as separate from us.

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs the Lincoln County War through court records and survivor testimony, exposing the corrupt alliances, economic monopolies, and dueling badges that transformed New Mexico Territory into a lawless battlefield where Billy the Kid became legend and institutional power crumbled into violence. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Discover the shocking truth behind Hollywood's gunfight fantasies as host Jack Maddox dismantles quick-draw myths using documented historical evidence. From fictional buscadero holsters to the chaotic reality of the O.K. Corral, learn why real Old West shootouts were nothing like the movies portray. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

When wealthy Wyoming cattle barons hired an army of assassins with a 70-name death list in 1892, they nearly got away with mass murder — protected by corrupt courts, complicit cavalry, and a president who looked the other way. Host Jack Maddox uncovers the documented conspiracy, explosive trials, and brutal class warfare that defined America's most notorious range war. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.