Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 091


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"Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles." Store purchases by tube was one of John Watkins Jr's predictions for What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years, written in 1900. Man and womankind's achievements, and their failures, are central to many of the reader chosen nonfiction pieces in vol. 091 (Racial Geography, Airmail Pilots, The Skeleton in the Closet, On Noise, Progressive Party Platform, Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, Haroun Al-Raschid, Plea for Atheism, Cry of the Children, Address to Medical Students, The Brotherhood of the Kingdom, Fallacy of Success, and Carranza's Tragic Flight). Broadening the gaze are selections on science, poetry, myth, art, and imaginative writing (Evolution of the Stars, Solar Myths, Landscape Painting, Robert Burns, and Algeron Blackwood). Summary by Sue Anderson
(9 hr 57 min)

Chapitres

Algernon Blackwood - An Appreciation 10:07 Lu par Ben Tucker
The Brotherhood of the Kingdom (1892) 6:04 Lu par progressingamerica
Carranza's Tragic Flight to Death (1920) 35:22 Lu par Sue Anderson
The Cry of the Children 37:36 Lu par Mary in Arkansas
Doctors: An Address Delivered to Medical Students (1908) 8:55 Lu par David Wales
Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth, Part 1 (1914) 54:59 Lu par Flavo Davo
Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth, Part 2 (1914) 37:53 Lu par Flavo Davo
The Fallacy of Success (1909) 14:16 Lu par Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
The History of Haroun Al-Raschid 29:08 Lu par Rapunzelina
History of the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: Excerpt 25:27 Lu par ktolber76
Letters on Landscape Painting #5 14:36 Lu par Sue Anderson
On Noise 11:15 Lu par Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
A Plea for Atheism 1:08:00 Lu par Availle
Racial Geography of Europe (1896) 37:55 Lu par Flavo Davo
Robert Burns 42:48 Lu par William Allan Jones
The Skeleton in the Closet 33:51 Lu par William Allan Jones
Solar Myths and Christian Festivals 31:19 Lu par Verla Viera
Tales of the Airmail Pilots 43:06 Lu par ktolber76
Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Progressive Party Platform (1912) 33:27 Lu par progressingamerica
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years (1900) 21:23 Lu par TriciaG