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The Early History of the Airplane

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Short Stories
Chapter: 3 | Listen: 2

The Brothers Orville (1871 – 1948) and Wilbur (1867 – 1912) Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot to steer the aircraft, which made fixed wing powered flight possible. The Early History of the Airplane consists of three short essays about the beginnings of human flight. The second essay retells the first flight: “This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.” (Introduction by Availle) [chương_files]

Psalms and Odes of Solomon

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Poetry, Religion
Chapter: 5 | Listen: 4

One of the Pseudepigrapha, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) that are not part of any scriptural canon (they are, however, found in copies of the Peshitta). The Psalms of Solomon were referenced in Early Christian writings, but lost to modern scholars until a Greek manuscript was rediscovered in the 17th century. Politically, the Psalms of Solomon are anti-Maccabee, and some psalms in the collection show a clear awareness of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem under Pompey in 63 BCE, metaphorically treating him as a dragon who had been sent by God to punish the Maccabees. The Odes of Solomon is a collection of 42 odes attributed to Solomon. Various scholars have dated the composition of these religious poems to anywhere in the range of the first three centuries AD. The original language of the Odes is thought to have been either Greek or Syriac, and to be generally Christian in background. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 082

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Poetry
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 180

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Poetry
Chapter: 50 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 078

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen:

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of April 2009. [chương_files]

Damn! A Book of Calumny

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature, Satire
Chapter: 5 | Listen: 3

Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the “Sage of Baltimore”, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the “Monkey” trial.” [chương_files]

Essays, Second Series

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. [chương_files]

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 3)

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Poetry, Sonnets
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 2

Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of several years. (Summary from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose Collection

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
Chapter: 48 | Listen: 3

A collection of 48 prose and poetry selections written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English language or are in English translation. [chương_files]

The New Jerusalem

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Religion
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 4

“On the road to Cairo one may see twenty groups exactly like that of the Holy Family in the pictures of the Flight into Egypt; with only one difference. The man is riding on the ass.” “The real mistake of the Muslims is something much more modern in its application than any particular passing persecution of Christians as such. It lay in the very fact that they did think they had a simpler and saner sort of Christianity, as do many modern Christians. They thought it could be made universal merely by being made uninteresting. Now a man preaching what he thinks is a platitude is far more intolerant than a man preaching what he admits is a paradox. It was exactly because it seemed self-evident, to Muslims as to Bolshevists, that their simple creed was suited to everybody, that they wished in that particular sweeping fashion to impose it on everybody.” [chương_files]