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Charles Hemstreet - Story of Manhattan

The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishes in 1898 when the island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan of...

Guero 3 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

515

Short Poetry Collection 105

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012.

Scott A. Jackson and 22 more 1 hour 37 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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John Henry Ingram - Claimants to Royalty

A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

Guero and 12 more 6 hours 19 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

Nature

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Announcement by the National Geographic Society Introductory Address by the President Geographic...

A. J. Carroll and 4 more 3 hours 40 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Children's Fiction

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Walter De la Mare - Three Mulla-mulgars

Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonderstone for protection, and tells them to follow their father. They embark on...

Amy Gramour and 2 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Favorite Fairy Tales

This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Little Red Riding Hood; Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Ugly...

Nolan Fout and 8 more 5 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, humor, travel, philosophy,...

NoelBadrian and 9 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Sir Isaac Newton - Opticks

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 — 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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James T. Nichols - Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such...

RudeJohn and 12 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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William H. Herndon - Herndon's Lincoln

A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for...

Ralph Kerwin and 9 more 19 hours 5 minutes

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John Phin - Seven Follies of Science

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions,...

tmkenny and 12 more 6 hours 34 minutes

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Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

General Fiction

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Jacob A. Riis - Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital...

Diana Majlinger and 7 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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