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Fall asleep to history. Every week, a calm 2-hour deep dive into something ordinary — salt, bread, glass — narrated slow and low, made specifically to help you sleep, not stay awake. No jump scares, no loud music, nothing on screen but soft visuals to drift off to. New episode every week, guaranteed. Boring on purpose.

Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African life long before knowledge of this continent was available to most people throughout the world. Summary by BettyB.Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive.

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861-1862 he travelled throughout the Canadas and the United States to ascertain firsthand their customs, the various societies, the institutions and politics of this young country. In Volume 2 you will hear his comments and opinions on the Constitution of The United States, the Government and its Financial Position, the Law Courts and Lawyers as well as his feelings towards American Hotels, Literature, the Post Office and of course the Civil War. As in Volume 1 many of you will ...

Lubaale – Ekinonoggo is a documentary podcast dedicated to preserving and explaining the indigenous spiritual knowledge, cultural heritage, and ancestral traditions of the Buganda Kingdom through authentic teachings rooted in oral history and lived experience.Hosted by Ssemwanga Kivumbi Bantubalamu, an author and respected cultural educator, the series explores the meaning of Lubaale, Ekinonoggo, ancestral lineages (Okusika), traditional Buganda beliefs, rituals, symbolism, and the wisdom passed down through generations.Each episode examines cultural questions that are often misunderstood, ...

Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a brief history of pyrotechnics from origins in the East through the present. Part II delves more into a description of the fireworks themselves, there manufacture, and some modern uses, and a tribute to his brother, Wing-Commander Frank Arthur Brock, R.N.A.S. Killed at Zeebrugge April 23rd, 1918. From his introduction: “My object has not been to write a text-book on firework-making, but rather to trace the art from earliest times, and to give a description of the development and process of manufacture. . . . My excuse for adding another ...

"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives and labours of inventors and explorers, not of our own country alone, but of others, for knowledge is of no country, but of all. The object of the collector has been rather to present the popular than the strictly scientific side of his subject, to furnish materials of interest and amusement, as well as instruction; and if now and then he has been tempted to stray into bye-paths of anecdote and gossip, excuse may readily be found in the fact that the private life...

Tussen 1986 en 1996 interviewde journalist Jaap Stiemer de Nederlandse rockster en kunstenaar Herman Brood diverse keren en had hij bijzondere ontmoetingen met het fenomeen. Het is dit jaar 25 jaar geleden dat Herman Brood overleed en hij zou 80 jaar zijn geworden. Ter gelegenheid daarvan praat Marc van Biezen in deze podcast met Jaap Stiemer over zijn ontmoetingen met Herman Brood en zijn er fragmenten van de interviews te horen.De Herman Brood Tapes is een productie van Studio a Go Go in Hoorn. Opname, montage en artwork: Jaap Stiemer. Interviews: Marc van Biezen. Voice over: Sophia Sintos....

Esther — the first of Racine's two sacred dramas — is a tragedy in the Aristotelian acceptation of the term, as being concerned with a great and noble action, and calculated to excite generous pity and fear, though the denouement is a happy one for the heroine and her compatriots. It was composed by Racine when he was in his fiftieth year, and acted at the Maison de Saint Cyr in 1689. The incidents are in strict accordance with the Biblical narrative. In " Esther " Racine for the first time introduces a Chorus, as in the ancient Greek drama, whose songs set to music by Moreau gratefully ...

In The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope recounts his experiences traveling around the area of what is now known as the Caribbean and Central America. Some of the places he describes are Jamaica, Cuba, the Windward Islands (modern-day Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), British Guiana (modern-day Guyana), Trinidad, St. Thomas (now one of the U.S. Virgin Islands), and New Grenada (modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela). Please note that the text includes the use of racial slurs that modern readers may find offensive. - Summary by Elsie ...

The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873) was his most popular book. A series of letters to a friend, "They are," wrote William Dean Howells, "the lightest, sweetest, wildest, freshest things that were ever written about the life of that summer ocean." Stoddard also wrote The Lepers Of Molokai (1885), a book that brought Father Damien and his charges to public notice. - Summary by David Wales

Déclassifié vous plonge au cœur des plus grandes opérations secrètes qui ont marqué l'histoire contemporaine. À partir de documents déclassifiés, de témoignages et d'enquêtes, la série révèle les coulisses de la CIA, des services de renseignement, de la Guerre froide, de la guerre psychologique, de la désinformation et des opérations clandestines qui ont influencé la géopolitique mondiale. De MK-Ultra à Mockingbird, de Northwoods à Peter Pan ou Condor, chaque épisode décrypte comment la raison d'État, la manipulation de l'information et les stratégies d'influence ont ...

It Makes You Move* calls up 100 years of rock ‘n’ roll history, looking only at songs that will make your body move... dance music that's irresistible. *IMYM focuses on the ROCKING and the ROLLING, but also on song impact, where to find specific songs today, and the history of pop culture, 1927 to 2027. Discover song creation and popularity information, song excerpts, and additional dance and pop-rock songs from each year! Note, IMYM is the subjective view of one music super-fan, who welcomes other people's ideas. Listen to an episode for contact information. #rockhistory #rockmusic #...

From Napoleon to nuclear war, War Is Hell unravels the brutal rise of total war and its devastating impact on soldiers and civilians alike. General William Tecumseh Sherman said it best during the American Civil War: “War is hell” – for soldiers as well as for civilians. As a pioneer and...

Two foul-mouthed British punks have broken into a cabin outside Kiruna, wired into a stolen radio mast, and started broadcasting. Between blasts of raucous punk, Gaz and Degsy stagger through real Swedish history — the Stockholm Bloodbath, Nils Dacke's uprising, the warship that sank in a puddle — getting the drinking and the details gloriously out of hand, yet somehow keeping the facts straight. Pirate Radio Kiruna: history lessons you didn't ask for, at a volume you can't ignore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by John W. Peace II and Melanie Davis, Back Porch Tales & Travels celebrates the history, folklore, travel destinations, and remarkable people of Appalachia and rural America. From museums and historic sites to authors, local legends, and forgotten stories, every episode invites you to slow down and enjoy the journey.

Histories of things that disappeared. Cities that emptied in days, companies that ruled the world and evaporated, technologies everyone used — gone without a funeral. One real, researched case file every day. Narration is AI-assisted and disclosed; the history is verified.

Generation Diddl ist DER Podcast über Diddl. Für alle, die Diddl-Blätter gesammelt haben wie Wertpapiere. Wir sind Julia Knörnschild und Lisa Golinski, als Millennials sind wir natürlich in der großen Diddl-Ära geboren. Wir erzählen die Geschichte der Diddl Maus: Von den ersten Postkarten über Plüschmäuse, Blockblätter, legale Schulhof-Tauschgeschäfte und das Merchandise-Imperium bis zum großen Diddl Comeback 2026. Dazu gibt es 90er- und 2000er-Nostalgie: No Angels, GZSZ, Polly Pocket, Gelstifte, Stickeralben, Eastpak und alles, was früher in unseren Kinderzimmern und auf dem ...

A bombing kills 11 people attending the Remembrance Sunday commemorations in the small town of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A twelfth victim would die in a coma 13 years later. No one has ever been charged.A lifetime later, The Times’s reporter Mario Ledwith returns to his hometown, asking who carried out these bloody murders, how the authorities failed to fully investigate, and why a silence continues to surround what happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Samuel Phillips Day traces the history of tea from Asia to England, exploring some of the romance of this treasured drink and its place in British culture. - Summary by Larry Wilson