Pony Express
The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, mail, and small packages from St. Joseph, Missouri, across the Great Plains, over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento, California, by horseback, using a series of relay stations. During its 18 months of operation, it reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days. From April 3, 1860, to October 1861, it became the West's most direct means of east–west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the country.
The Pony Express was a mail-delivery system of the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Company of 1859, which in 1860 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. This firm was founded by William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell all of whom were notable in the freighting business.
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Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Oconomowoc (#311)
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As John says, Oconomowoc will make you jealous. Wait until you see the homes and the lakes (and the homes on the lakes) and the Batmobile! No kidding -- Batman and Robin live here, didn't you know? Then maybe you also don't know that in Oconomowoc you'll find: The oldest complete stained glass window at Oakbrook Esser (and the other unbelievable windows that Paul makes); Sacred Indian Lotuses that only exist in the U.S. just off Terry and Dirk's pier in Lac la Belle; A marble dog bathtub in the Marjorie Ward estate; The more than 100 million sq. ft. (not a typo!) Roundy's distribution center; and Brownberry Bread being made at the rate of 180 loaves a minute!
In downtown Oconomowoc, kids can learn to cook, adults can mediate and worship, horses can be outfitted and, of course, everyone can eat. See? John was right -- but don't be jealous, just settle in and enjoy this hard to spell town in the heart of Lake Country. Yes, Oconomowoc already has a lot of O's, but let us add one more: O-utstanding!
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The Shadow by Arthur Stringer | Audiobook with subtitles
A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way.
Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and poet. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other books in addition to writing numerous film scripts and articles. See:
This book is unrelated to the 1930s and 1940s pulp magazine and radio series of the same name. (Lee Smalley)
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ch 10) The Other Civil War
chapter 10: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 10, The Other Civil War, covers the Anti-Rent movement, the Dorr Rebellion, the Flour Riot of 1837, the Molly Maguires, the rise of labor unions, the Lowell girls movement, and other class struggles centered around the various depressions of the 19th century. He describes the abuse of government power by corporations and the efforts by workers to resist those abuses.
ШЕРЛОК ХОЛМС И ДОКТОР ВАТСОН (советский сериал все серии подряд)
Все серии легендарного сериала о приключениях легендарного сыщика.
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Winfield Scott Hancock | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:42 1 Early life and family
00:03:06 2 Early military career
00:03:16 2.1 Mexican War
00:04:45 2.2 Marriage and peacetime
00:06:31 3 Civil War
00:06:40 3.1 Joining the Army of the Potomac
00:08:35 3.2 Gettysburg
00:13:13 3.3 Virginia and the end of the war
00:15:41 4 Post-war military service
00:15:51 4.1 Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators
00:16:44 4.2 Service on the Plains
00:17:46 4.3 Reconstruction
00:20:32 4.4 Return to the Plains
00:22:16 4.5 Command in the East and political ambitions
00:23:53 5 Election of 1880
00:24:03 5.1 Democratic convention
00:25:07 5.2 Campaign against Garfield
00:26:39 6 Later life
00:28:48 7 Legacy
00:30:49 8 Popular media
00:31:49 9 See also
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Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as Hancock the Superb, he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. One military historian wrote, No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock. As another wrote, his tactical skill had won him the quick admiration of adversaries who had come to know him as the 'Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac'. His military service continued after the Civil War, as Hancock participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the Army's presence at the Western frontier.
Hancock's reputation as a war hero at Gettysburg, combined with his status as a Unionist and supporter of states' rights, made him a potential presidential candidate. His noted integrity was a counterpoint to the corruption of the era, for as President Rutherford B. Hayes said,If, when we make up our estimate of a public man, conspicuous both as a soldier and in civil life, we are to think first and chiefly of his manhood, his integrity, his purity, his singleness of purpose, and his unselfish devotion to duty, we can truthfully say of Hancock that he was through and through pure gold.When the Democrats nominated him for President in 1880, he ran a strong campaign, but was narrowly defeated by Republican James A. Garfield.
The Hound of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in The Final Problem, and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
Chapter 1. Mr Sherlock Holmes - 00:00
Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles - 15:05
Chapter 3. The Problem - 39:28
Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville - 58:37
Chapter 5. The Three Broken Threads - 1:24:00
Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall - 1:45:31
Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Meripit House - 2:07:17
Chapter 8. First Report of Dr Watson - 2:38:16
Chapter 9. The Light Upon the Moor (Second Report of Dr Watson) - 2:55:05
Chapter 10. Extract from The Diary of Dr Watson - 3:34:23
Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor - 3:56:35
Chapter 12. Death on The Moor - 4:24:02
Chapter 13. Fixing The Nets - 4:50:29
Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles - 5:15:12
Chapter 15. A Retrospection - 5:41:15
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A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become among the most famous characters in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his study in scarlet: There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Part One:
Chapter 1. Mr Sherlock Holmes - 00:00
Chapter 2. The Science of Deduction - 17:32
Chapter 3. The Lauriston Garden Mystery - 39:40
Chapter 4. What John Rance Had to Tell - 1:03:26
Chapter 5. Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor - 1:18:33
Chapter 6. Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do - 1:33:59
Chapter 7. Light in the Darkness - 1:54:32
Part Two:
Chapter 1. On the Great Alkali Plain - 2:15:04
Chapter 2. The Flower of Utah - 2:39:37
Chapter 3. John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet - 2:55:59
Chapter 4. A Flight for Life - 3:08:18
Chapter 5. The Avenging Angels - 3:29:37
Chapter 6. A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D. - 3:52:26
Chapter 7. The Conclusion - 4:19:41
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The Cruise of the Snark Audiobook by Jack London | Full Audiobook with subtitles
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of surf-riding, which he dubbed a royal sport, helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
Genre(s): Memoirs
The Cruise of the Snark
Jack LONDON
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0:23 | 1 - Chapter I -- Foreword
22:46 | 2 - Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous
54:18 | 3 - Chapter III -- Adventure
1:11:43 | 4 - Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About
1:34:55 | 5 - Chapter V -- The First Landfall
1:50:08 | 6 - Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport
2:14:28 | 7 - Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai
2:45:10 | 8 - Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun
3:14:18 | 9 - Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse
3:50:08 | 10 - Chapter X -- Typee
4:21:00 | 11 - Chapter XI -- The Nature Man
4:48:48 | 12 - Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance
5:27:12 | 13 - Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora
5:42:33 | 14 - Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator
6:22:33 | 15 - Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons
7:01:18 | 16 - Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English
7:17:00 | 17 - Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.
7:56:00 | 18 - Back Word
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A Study In Scarle Audiobook by Arthur Conan Doyle | Audiobooks Youtube Free | Sherlock Holmes Audio
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature.
Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his study in scarlet: There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. (A study is a preliminary drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece.) - Summary by David Clarke
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6)
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction, Published 1800 -1900
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | Full Audiobook with subtitles
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon NORTHUP
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for twelve years on a Louisiana plantation, he is eventually freed and reunited with his family. (Summary by RobBoard)
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The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins | Audiobook with Subtitles
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body is found in a kiln. The Meadowcroft brothers stand accused of the crime, but are they guilty? The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Stephen Boorn were sentenced to death for the murder of their brother-in-law, but were they wrongly convicted? (Summary by M Z Spark, Phil, and Barry)
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Wilkie COLLINS
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Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly as a house servant, but was privy to the intimate details and workings of the entire McGee cotton plantation and empire. In Thirty Years A Slave Hughes provides vivid descriptions and explicit accounts of how the McGee plantation in Mississippi, and the McGee mansion in Tennessee functioned--accounts of the lives of the many slaves that lived, suffered and sometimes died under the cruel and unusual punishments meted out by Boss and his monstrously unstable and vindictive wife. He described the profane manner in which this peculiar institution dehumanized, on a daily basis, not only the black man but even more so the white man. Ultimately, Thirty Years A Slave is an expression of Hughes’s desire to accurately describe the nature of the influence that the institution of slavery had on this country during the two hundred years in which it existed here, and the influence it continues to have on the heart and soul of a post-Civil War, post-14th Amendment United States. (Introduction by James K. White)
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Louis HUGHES
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A Study in Scarlet Audiobook by A. Conan Doyle | Full Audiobook | Subtitles | Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature.
Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his study in scarlet: There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. (A study is a preliminary drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece.) - Summary by David Clarke
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction, Published A Study In Scarlet (Version 6)
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE
Part One:
Chapter 1. Mr Sherlock Holmes - 0:23
Chapter 2. The Science of Deduction - 18:00
Chapter 3. The Lauriston Garden Mystery - 40:18
Chapter 4. What John Rance Had to Tell - 1:04:15
Chapter 5. Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor - 1:19:30
Chapter 6. Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do - 1:35:03
Chapter 7. Light in the Darkness - 1:55:47
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Chapter 1. On the Great Alkali Plain - 2:16:28
Chapter 2. The Flower of Utah - 2:41:09
Chapter 3. John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet - 2:57:43
Chapter 4. A Flight for Life - 3:10:13
Chapter 5. The Avenging Angels - 3:31:44
Chapter 6. A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D. - 3:54:42
Chapter 7. The Conclusion - 4:22:09
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A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the next year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his sidekick Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his study in scarlet: There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE