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16/07/2024
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Little Wars (A Game for Boys)

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Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules. While wargaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how “little wars” with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing. “You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realise just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but–the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realisation conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.” Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat. But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the “skirt-swishers”, developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories!     [chương_files]  

16/07/2024
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Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet’s lifetime and it remains so today. Elizabeth was initially hesitant to publish the poems, feeling that they were too personal. However, Robert insisted that they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare’s time and urged her to publish them. To offer the couple some privacy, she decided that she might publish them under a title disguising the poems as translations of foreign sonnets. Therefore, the collection was first to be known as Sonnets from the Bosnian, until Robert suggested that she change their imaginary original language to Portuguese, probably after his nickname for her: “my little Portuguese.” (Summary from Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

16/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 027

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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 027: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.     [chương_files]  

16/07/2024
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中國傳統書籍三本(三百千) / Three Classic Chinese Texts

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This is a collection of three classic Chinese texts: the Hundred Surnames (百家姓), the Thousand Character Classic (千字文), and the Three Word Verse (三字經). 中國傳統書籍三本: 百家姓, 千字文, 三字經.     [chương_files]  

16/07/2024
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Is Mars Habitable?

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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]  

16/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 038

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

16/07/2024
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In Memoriam A.H.H.

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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]  

16/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 043

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

16/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 028

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

16/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 034

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