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Chapter V. The Kosher Problem

In With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

Read by Josh Kirsh

John Henry Patterson

From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …

Sarojini Naidu

In Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

The Sinking of the Titanic

In The Calendar and Other Verses

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Irving Sydney Dix

Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …

John Quincy Adams

In Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

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Jean S. Remy

Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…

A Valentine (Sent to a friend..) - Read by JK

In A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll

This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

I - The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Part 1

In The Frontier in American History

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Frederick Jackson Turner

Frederick Jackson Turner was an extremely influential U.S. historian, who is best known for his "frontier thesis", which proposed …