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A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 15 of 22, covering from 1800-1815 AD.

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first Greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement. In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their textbook: History of the United States. A ...

For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty, and of faith.

Charles Scott prepared this dramatic version of Dickens' Christmas Carol in 1877. All your favorite characters from the story, as well as a few new faces - er, new voices in this audio recording. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly broker: Larry Wilson Frederick Merry, a nephew to Scrooge: Jon Hunter Bob Cratchit, clerk to Scrooge: David Purdy Ghost of Jacob Marley, dead seven years: Alan Mapstone Spirit of Christmas Past: ShrimpPhish Spirit of Christmas Present: Sonia Mr. Thomas Topper: Alan Mapstone Mr. Henry Snapper: Greg Giordano Mr. Mumford, philanthropic citizen: ...

When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who treats him badly. Oliver runs away and finds himself in the streets of London, where he meets the Artful Dodger and is lured into a gang of young pickpockets, led by the evil Fagin. Even amidst his horrible surroundings, Oliver escapes and finds his way into a loving home. But Fagin's gang are determined to steal him back to their life of crime, coming closer and closer... Dickens' classic tale of an orphan boy who has adventures with pickpockets and ...

This theatrical version of A Christmas Carol was performed at the Surrey Theatre in February 1844 just weeks after the publication of the novella by Dickens in December of the previous year. (There were 7 other adaptations also being shown on stage then, with only 1 version - not this one - being sanctioned by Dickens.) - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Ebenezer Scrooge, the Miser: Greg Giordano Frank Freeheart, his Nephew: Agnes Robert Behr Mr. Cheerly: James R. Hedrick Mr. Heartly: Chuck Williamson Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's Clerk: Beeswaxcandle Dark Sam: Wayne Cooke Characters in the Dream: ...

Anyone who knows her wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Jilly sees the world through a prism of faerie tales. It was years before I came to understand that she wasn’t just being whimsical when she talked so easily about hobs and brownies and various kinds of faerie creatures. They were real. Faerieland, otherworlds, and all the denizens and creatures you might imagine to live there. It was all real. And so were ghosts. I remember when I first realized this. I felt like my head was going to explodeJuniper left her life as a Hollywood actor to live quietly back home in Newford.

Japanisch durch Geschichten zu lernen gehört zu den angenehmsten und effektivsten Methoden, ein natürliches Gefühl für die Sprache zu entwickeln. Dieses Hörbuch wurde speziell für deutschsprachige Lernende auf Anfänger- und Mittelstufenniveau konzipiert und verbindet unterhaltsame Geschichten mit einem sorgfältig aufgebauten Lernansatz. Jede Geschichte folgt einer bewährten Struktur: zuerst auf Japanisch, anschließend auf Deutsch und danach erneut auf Japanisch.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. (Summary by Wikipedia)CastEbenezer Scrooge: Andy MinterFred: mbBob Cratchit: David RichardsonGentleman: Martin LangerJacob Marley: Algy PugGhost of Christmas Past: Tricia GFan/Tiny Tim: rashadaYoung Scrooge/Peter Cratchit: Paul AndrewsSchoolmaster/Man 2: Peter ...

Russisch durch Geschichten zu lernen gehört zu den angenehmsten und effektivsten Methoden, ein natürliches Gefühl für die Sprache zu entwickeln. Dieses Hörbuch wurde speziell für deutschsprachige Lernende auf Anfänger- und Mittelstufenniveau konzipiert und verbindet unterhaltsame Geschichten mit einem sorgfältig aufgebauten Lernansatz. Jede Geschichte folgt einer bewährten Struktur: zuerst auf Russisch, anschließend auf Deutsch und danach erneut auf Russisch.

Belshazzar is an English Oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel to a libretto by Charles Jennens. It was first performed at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket in London in 1745. The story is taken from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and tells the tale of Belshazzar's Feast and "the writing on the wall" which only Daniel can interpret and which foretells the downfall of Belshazzar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone) Cast List: Belshazzar: Greg Giordano Nitocris: ShrimpPhish Daniel: Brian Fullen Cyrus: Algy Pug Gobryas: Larry Wilson Arioch: David Purdy Messenger: Ellen Marie Chorus: dc Chorus: ...

Bartley is to visit his friend Carter for the summer but sends his friend Pelt ahead to a town in New York. Pelt, Carter and Carter's friend from across the ocean, a Scotland yard man Ranville are invited to a dinner with Professor Warren and anthropologist. The dinner never happens as the three find Warren dead inside a locked house. - Summary by Yoganandh T

A technical report of the experiments and observations performed on various species of twining, tendril-climbing, root-climbing, and leaf-climbing plants, with some review of past literature and an emphasis on taking measurements to allow the quantitative comparison of sensitivity and speed of reactions across different genera and species. Conclusions and hypotheses on the fitness advantages, progressive adaptations, and evolutionary relatedness of different species are included.

There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murder. There are reports of a tread on the stairs and shady figures disappearing from view. The servants blame the supernatural, but Quintus Oakes gets to the bottom of the mystery. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell, first published in 3 volumes in 1830–1833. Lyell used geology throughout as a basis to strengthen his argument for Uniformitarianism. He used geological proof to determine that the Earth was older than 6,000 years, as had been previously contested. The book shows that the processes that are occurring in the present are the same processes that occurred in the past.

Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes "facts and calculations." He raises his children, most prominently Louisa and Tom, to eschew imagination and emotion and embrace order and reason. The results are disastrous: Louisa marries out of duty to the supposed self-made man Mr. Bounderby, while Tom grows up dissolute, ultimately commits theft and blames it on an unfortunate laborer, Stephen Blackpool. Set in the fictional Coketown, a mill town in the north of England, Dickens' novel satirizes capitalism, ...

"ANGLO-AMERICAN accord is splendid sentiment. America ever rises gladly to this toast. But we must drink from our own crystal chalice of unsullied truth, and not from a poisoned loving-cup of coalition propaganda!" The Poisoned Loving-Cup investigates and documents the egregious pro-British, anti-American propaganda inserted into public school textbooks following World War I, all in the name of improving British-American relations. (Summary by MamaPhish and the Introduction)

Chuck Wardell was regularly counted out. Even when he was born, the doctor didn’t think he’d make it. But Chuck counted himself in and, despite his struggle with dyslexia, rose to the top: through Vietnam, Harvard, the White House, the State Department and as a corporate CEO. With raw...

Birds, Boughs, and Belonging invites listeners into a quieter America—where meaning is discovered not in noise or ambition, but through attentive companionship with nature. Across gardens, forests, seashores, and mountain vistas, classic American writers—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa...

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