Category: Biography

Deucalion and the Flood

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Running time: 4 hours, 29 minutes

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Preface

The Gods of Greece

Cadmon and the Dragon’s Teeth

Perseus

Hercules and his Labors

Jason and the Golden Fleece

Theseus

Agamemnon

Achilles

Adventures of Ulysses

Lycurgus

Draco and Solon

Pisistratus

Miltiades the Hero of Marathon

Leonidas at Thermopylae

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Philip of Macedonia

Alexander the Great

Demosthenes

Aristotle, Zeno, Diogenes and Apelles

July 10, 2009June 3, 2012

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill: Do Your Worst

Winston Churchill Biography in Sound on Old Time Radio Programs

Winston Churchill’s famous 1942 speech in the U.S., “Now we are masters of our fate”

brief clip from Winston Churchill’s 1940 speech

Winston Churchill’s speech about the Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches

Churchill’s speech about the German surrender:

Historic footage of VE Day in London, 8th May, 1945

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July 10, 2009December 23, 2010

Famous Men of Rome by Haaren and Poland

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The Horatii and the Curatii

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Preface

Romulus

Numa Pompilius

The Tarquins

Junius Brutus

Horatius

Mucius the Left-Handed

Appius Claudius Caecus

Constantine the Great

End of the Western Empire

July 10, 2009August 7, 2012

The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge

03 – Voyage and Shipwreck

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Total running time: 5 hours, 22 minutes

01 – The Roman World

02 – A Great World Power

04 – The Tragedy of Nero

05 – The Great Fire in Rome

06 – The Destruction of Pompeii

07 – Marcus Aurelius

08 – Decline of the Roman Empire

09 – Christians to the Lions

10 – A New Rome

11 – The Armies of the North

12 – The Dark Ages

13 – King Arthur and His Knights

14 – The Hero of Two Nations

15 – The Hardy Northmen

16 – How the Northmen Conquered England

17 – A Spanish Hero

18 – The First Crusade

19 – Frederick Barbarossa

20 – The Third Crusade

21 – The Days of Chivalry

22 – Queen of the Adratic

23 – The Story of Marco Polo

24 – Dante’s Great Poem

25 – The Maid of Orleans

26 – The Sea of Darkness

27 – Prince Henry, the Sailor

28 – A Famous Voyage

29 – The Invention of Printing

30 – The Stormy Cape

31 – Vasco Da Gama’s Great Voyage

32 – India at Last

33 – The New Trade-Route

34 – Golden Goa

35 – Christopher Columbus

36 – The Last of the Moors

37 – Discovery of the New World

38 – The West Indies

39 – Columbus in Chains

40 – A Great Mistake

41 – Follow the Leader

42 – Discovery of the Pacific

43 – Magellan’s Great Plan

44 – Magellan’s Straits

45 – Round the World

46 – The Finding of Mexico

47 – Montezuma

48 – Siege and Fall of Mexico

49 – Conquest of Peru

50 – A Great Awakening

July 8, 2009December 23, 2010

Famous Men of the Middle Ages by Haaren and Poland

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Chapter 1, The Gods of the Teutons

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Total running time: 4 hours, 40 minutes

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Preface

2, The Nibelungs

3, Alaric the Visigoth

4,Attila the Hun

5, Genseric the Vandal

6, Theodoric the Ostragoth

7, Clovis

8, Justinian the Great

9, Mohammed

10, Charles Martel and Pepin

19, Edward the Confessor

20, William the Conqueror

21, Peter the Hermit

22, Frederick Barbarossa

23, Henry II and his sons

24, Louis IX

25, Robert Bruce

26, Marco Polo

27, Edward the Black Prince

28, William Tell and Arnold von Winkelreid

33, Warwick the Kingmaker

Note: The original version of this book was published by Haaren and Poland in 1904, and is now in the public domain. There is another version which was edited by Rob and Cindy Shearer, and published by Greenleaf Press in 1992 and again in 2007. This newer version contains 5 additional chapters, written by Rob Shearer. The book that Mr. Shearer updated is not in the public domain, but it can be purchased from Greenleaf Press.

The five additional chapters in the newer version of this book are:
Chapter II Augustine of Hippo
Chapter IV Patrick of Ireland
Chapter IX Benedict and Gregory
Chapter XXII Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV
Chapter XXVI Francis and Dominic

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Augustine of Hippo

Patrick of Ireland

We are still looking for audio material to replace content from these other chapters. If we are able to locate suitable content, we’ll post the links here.

July 8, 2009June 3, 2012

Babe Ruth: Farewell to Baseball

Babe Ruth: Farewell to Baseball radio broadcast

Babe Ruth Biography in Sound

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July 6, 2009December 28, 2010

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg Biography in Sound

Carl Sandburg: Selected poems

Fog by Carl Sandburg

Fog e-text

Chicago Poet by Carl Sandburg

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Soup by Carl Sandburg

Soup

I saw a famous man eating soup.
I say he was lifting a fat broth
Into his mouth with a spoon.
His name was in the newspapers that day
Spelled out in tall black headlines
And thousands of people were talking about him.

When I saw him,
He sat bending his head over a plate
Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.

Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes,
Sob on the long cool winding saxophones.
Go to it, O jazzmen.

Sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pans,
Let your trombones ooze,
And go hushahusha-hush with the slippery sand-paper.

Moan like an autumn wind high in the lonesome tree-tops,
Moan soft like you wanted somebody terrible,
Cry like a racing car slipping away from a motorcycle cop,
Bang-bang! you jazzmen,
Bang altogether drums, traps, banjoes, horns, tin cans-
Make two people fight on the top of a stairway
And scratch each other’s eyes in a clinch tumbling down the stairs.

Can the rough stuff …
Now a Mississippi steamboat pushes up the night river
With a hoo-hoo-hoo-oo …
And the green lanterns calling to the high soft stars …
A red moon rides on the humps of the low river hills …
Go to it, O jazzmen.

July 4, 2009December 28, 2010

Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott

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00 – Preface

01 – The Princess Sophia

02 – The Princess’s Downfall

03 – The Childhood and Youth of Peter

04 – Le Fort and Menzikoff

05 – Commencement Of The Reign

06 – The Emperor’s Tour 1697

07 – Conclusion of the Tour

08 – The Rebellion

09 – Reforms

10 – The Battle of Narva

11 – The Building of St. Petersburg

12 – The Revolt of Mazeppa

13 – The Battle of Pultowa

14 – The Empress Catharine

15 – The Prince Alexis

16 – The Flight of Alexis

17 – The Trial

18 – The Condemnation and Death of Alexis

19 – Conclusion

July 3, 2009December 28, 2010

Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William Lighton

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03 – Terms of the Commission

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01 – Characteristics

02 – The Expedition

04 – The Start

05 – With the Sioux

06 – To the Falls of the Missouri

07 – Over the Continental Divide

08 – The Last Stage of the Westward Journey

09 – Winter on the Coast

10 – Homeward: In the Mountains

11 – Recrossing the Divide

12 – Home

13 – After Life

July 2, 2009December 28, 2010

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale from Great Englishwomen by M. B. Synge

Florence Nightingale

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July 2, 2009December 28, 2010

Great Englishwomen by M. B. Synge

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04 – Philippa of Hainault

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01 – Queen Bertha

02 – Maude the Good

03 – Eleanor of Aquitane

05 – Margaret of Anjou

06 – The Lady Margaret

07 – Margaret Roper

08 – Lady Jane Grey

09 – Princess Elizabeth

10 – Lady Rachel Russell

11 – Angelica Kaufmann

12 – Hannah More

13 – Elizabeth Fry

14 – Mary Somerville

15 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16 – Florence Nightingale

July 2, 2009December 28, 2010

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Summary: The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller’s life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to meet her teacher Ann Sullivan, and learned to communicate using the manual alphabet. It then goes on to chronicle her days as a college student. (Summary by Maria for Librivox)

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