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Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published―If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy.

Each episode I tell the story of a Goddess. These are stories that come from the ancient world and from times not so far away.Join me to listen and learn about history and folklore, or perhaps you might also like to breathe and invite the wisdom of the goddesses into your experience.Transcripts are available at www.onceuponagoddess.net

Misterflip (aka Flip Calvi) is an Italian DJ and producer, born in 1960 in Sardinia, in Olbia. He participated in the advent of Private Radio in Italy in the mid-70s and has always carefully followed the world of dancen and Funky sounds. Thanks to the experience of the radios he has a broad musical culture but he too has always looked for new sounds and experimentation. At the end of the 80s the love for house music and electronic music, but also with acid jazz and the first phenomena of hip hop. In the meantime, console work grew in prestige as he was the protagonist of the clubbing ...

Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America.   

Podcast pra conhecer as escrituras sagradas!

Présenté par Yves Calvi. Grand temps de décryptage pour tout comprendre des événements du jour en France et dans le monde. À 18h40, Raquel Garrido et Louis Sarkozy débattent, puis une tribune libre réunit les grandes signatures de la chaîne pour nourrir le jugement de chacun.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Ich bin Luis! Ich bin besonders anschmiegsam, sehr verspielt und oft ganz furchtbar hungrig. Ungewöhnlich ist auch, dass ich nicht schnurren kann. Früher habe ich mich darüber geärgert. Inzwischen weiß ich: Jeder kann etwas anderes gut. Ich zum Beispiel kann wirklich gut Unfug machen. Manchmal hilft mir mein Bruder Leo dabei. Und ihr könnt mir glauben: Langweilig wird es mit uns beiden nie!

Nims Purja è stato un bambino assetato di avventura e di giustizia, partito da un villaggio nepalese per diventare un soldato gurkha e trasformatosi poi, tra combattimenti e scalate, in un alpinista inarrestabile con una sfida da vincere. E con qualcosa da dimostrare: che possiamo spingere più avanti, e più in alto, i confini dell'impensabile. Sotto lo sguardo degli dèi della montagna si svolge così la sua missione impossibile: salire in sette mesi tutti gli Ottomila della Terra («settimana più, settimana meno»: e saranno meno).

When the Second World War began, there were 10 million children living in Britain. Many were evacuated to the countryside, but others stayed behind and witnessed the Blitz close-up in cities around the UK. Blitz Kids tells the remarkable true stories of children who spent their nights in cold, cramped air-raid shelters, hearing the rumble of planes and the crash of bombs overhead.

The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost twice the size of ours from which to...

The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The ‘friendly invasion’ of Britain by over a million American G...

For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany’s, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience—the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make a new...

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. ‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s...