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Is Mars Habitable?

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction, Science
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 3

In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various experts, and produced his own scientific analysis of the Martian climate and atmospheric conditions. Among other things Wallace pointed out that spectroscopic analysis had shown no signs of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere, that Lowell’s analysis of Mars’ climate was seriously flawed and badly overestimated the surface temperature, and that low atmospheric pressure would make liquid water, let alone a planet girding irrigation system, impossible. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 038

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 5

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 038: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Elegies & Odes, Poetry
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 3

In Memoriam is Tennyson’s elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poem over 17 years as a chronicle of his mourning process. The poem became a favorite of Queen Victoria when she was grieving for her husband, and was one of the most popular and artistically influential poems of the Victorian period. (Summary by gloriana). [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 043

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 043: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 028

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 028: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 034

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Poetry
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 034: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Long Poems Collection 006

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Poetry
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 006: a collection of 17 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 033

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 033: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Local Color Collection

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 2

In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. [chương_files]

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald)

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Poetry
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 2

“Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1123). “Rubaiyat” (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) means “quatrains”: verses of four lines.” (summary from Wikipedia.) [chương_files]