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Yorkshire Battles

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Edward Lamplough


Edward Lamplough describes 22 battles that all occurred in Yorkshire over many time periods and political contexts. - Summary by lightcryst…

Chapter 2: The Earliest Smugglers, from "King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855"

In LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

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Edward Keble Chatterton


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

Observations on the Use of Mercury in Treating Venereal Disease, 1772 (excerpt)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092

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Andrew Duncan


Calling men the "Bawling Brotherhood," Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenogra…

Alphonse Legros

In Four Masters of Etching

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Frederick Wedmore


Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour H…

On the Latvian Border

In The Bolshevik Myth

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Alexander Berkman


The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 19…

The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058

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Anonymous


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign - Read by LC

In A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign

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Vachel Lindsay


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay.This was the Weekly Poetry pro…

A Holiday in Bed

In Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations

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J. M. Barrie


This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…

Anglesey

In H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools

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Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kinnersley


Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…

A Trace of the Girl

In The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car

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Laura Lee Hope


In "The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car, Or The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley", one of the girls has learned to run a big motor ca…

Impossibility of Witchcraft (1712)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Unknown


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

The Head Gardener's Story by Anton Checkov

In Love Stories Volume 5

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Anton Chekhov


Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, offered by LibriVox volunteers, covering all kinds of experiences involving romance or oth…

Life in Other Worlds

In Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

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David Todd


The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…

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In Broken Barriers

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Meredith Nicholson


Life abruptly changes for young socialite, Grace Durland., when her father goes bankrupt and she is forced to earn a living. Thrust into a n…

Part 2 - The Doctrine Behind the Veil

In The Illustrated Key to the Tarot

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L. W. De Laurence


L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…