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Hong Kong
- The History and Legacy of Asia’s Leading Financial Center
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Hong Kong: The History and Legacy of Asia’s Leading Financial Center chronicles the turbulent history of Hong Kong, and how it became one of the wealthiest places in the world despite its challenging political environment.
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The Greek Dark Ages
- The History and Legacy of the Era Between the Fall of the Mycenaeans and the Rise of the City-States
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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When people think of ancient Greece, images of philosophers such as Plato or Socrates often come to mind, as do great warriors like Pericles and Alexander the Great. But hundreds of years before Athens became a city, a Greek culture flourished and spread its tentacles throughout the Western Mediterranean region via trade and warfare. Scholars have termed this pre-Classical Greek culture the Mycenaean culture, which existed from about 2000 to 1200 BCE, when Greece, along with much of the Eastern Mediterranean, was thrust into a centuries-long Dark Ages.
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The Greek Dark Ages
- The History and Legacy of the Era Between the Fall of the Mycenaeans and the Rise of the City-States
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-10-20
- Language: English
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Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
- The History of the Most Notorious Cult and Mass Murder-Suicide in American History
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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The United States has never had a shortage of cults based on religious teachings and charismatic leaders, but perhaps none are as infamous as Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, which remain notorious for the mass murder-suicide event in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978, during which nearly 900 people drank cyanide-laced Flavor Aid, including nearly 300 children.
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Interesting but poor
- By AmazonSusan Egan on 11-04-19
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Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
- The History of the Most Notorious Cult and Mass Murder-Suicide in American History
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 27-03-17
- Language: English
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What If Carthage Won the Punic Wars?
- An Alternative History of the Conflict Between Rome and Carthage
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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Rome and Carthage rarely could maintain peace after the end of the fourth century BCE. As the two most powerful civilizations in the western Mediterranean region, they were destined to clash, curse or not. Roman historians placed the foundation of Carthage at approximately 814 BCE, several decades before Rome.
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Not a alternative history at all.
- By James Wilson on 28-04-23
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What If Carthage Won the Punic Wars?
- An Alternative History of the Conflict Between Rome and Carthage
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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The Irish Confederate Wars
- The History and Legacy of Ireland’s Deadliest Conflict
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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During the 12th century, the people of Ireland came under the sway of the English, who had extended into their domain. With every subsequent century, English dominion in the land gradually expanded, leading to the exceedingly harsh treatment of native Irish populations at the hands of English settlers. The Tudor period was especially tumultuous, with Elizabeth I waging a notoriously expensive conquest against the Irish in the waning years of her reign.
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The Irish Confederate Wars
- The History and Legacy of Ireland’s Deadliest Conflict
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-12-21
- Language: English
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Madame de Pompadour: The Life and Legacy of French King Louis XV’s Chief Mistress
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Jean Antoinette Poussin, the woman who would become known as Madame de Pompadour, was a middle-class girl of uncertain parenthood who became one of many in a long line of King Louis XV’s mistresses before she died at the age of 42. While none of that stands out on its own when it comes to French history and royalty, historians have labeled her “no ordinary king’s mistress.... She made and unmade ministers, she selected ambassadors, she appointed generals, [and] she conferred pensions and places."
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Madame de Pompadour: The Life and Legacy of French King Louis XV’s Chief Mistress
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-06-19
- Language: English
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Germany and the Cold War
- The History and Legacy of the Divide Between East Germany and West Germany
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other. Though it never got “hot”, the Cold War was a tense era until the dissolution of the USSR, and nothing symbolized the split more than the Berlin Wall.
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Germany and the Cold War
- The History and Legacy of the Divide Between East Germany and West Germany
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Jack Nicholson
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: James Yi
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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In 1994, the American Film Institute gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jack Nicholson, who became one of the youngest actors to ever receive the award. Such tributes typically come as a capstone to a star's career, not when the actor is still in his 50s. In fact, Nicholson would go on to win the Oscar for Best Actor just a few years after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award as a result of As Good As It Gets (1997), and he would earn another Academy Award nomination for About Schmidt (2002). Those two would give him 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other man in history, and make him one of just two actors to be nominated in every decade between 1960 and 2010.
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Short book
- By Mickwigfall on 10-02-25
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American Legends: The Life of Jack Nicholson
- Narrated by: James Yi
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-06-15
- Language: English
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The Columbia Disaster
- The History of the Last Space Shuttle to Be Lost During a Mission
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the 10th time, beginning mission STS-51-L. Space shuttles had already successfully completed 24 missions, and no American spacecraft had ever failed to reach orbit during an official mission.
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little on Columbia good space program over view
- By Kindle Customer on 06-11-25
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The Columbia Disaster
- The History of the Last Space Shuttle to Be Lost During a Mission
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-12-24
- Language: English
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The Moon Missions Before Apollo
- The History of NASA’s Pioneer, Ranger, and Surveyor Programs
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System.
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The Moon Missions Before Apollo
- The History of NASA’s Pioneer, Ranger, and Surveyor Programs
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kosovo
- The History and Legacy of the Battle Between the Serbs and Ottomans That Forged Serbia's National Identity
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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The Balkan area has historically been one of the world’s most combustible regions. Home to several national groups and at a crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Balkans have exerted an outsized role on world affairs. Infamously, the 1914 assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, was the final straw that led to World War I. The Balkans, however, had been flammable long before Princip’s bullets murdered the Austrian monarch-in-waiting.
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Very bad all the way
- By Anonymous on 03-10-25
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The Battle of Kosovo
- The History and Legacy of the Battle Between the Serbs and Ottomans That Forged Serbia's National Identity
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-12-19
- Language: English
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The Younger Dryas Period
- The History of the Earth’s Drastic Climate Change at the End of the Pleistocene Era
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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As a basic definition, it may be said that an Ice Age is simply a period of time during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. These sheets have advanced and retreated, at times taking over the entire planet, and conversely disappearing nearly altogether. Glacial ice formed by this regularly occurring process does not sit in a state of inertia, but moves dynamically, reshaping the geological features of the continents.
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The Younger Dryas Period
- The History of the Earth’s Drastic Climate Change at the End of the Pleistocene Era
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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Pretty Boy Floyd: The Notorious Life and Death of the Depression Era Outlaw
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Pretty Boy Floyd was a perplexing character as abhorred as he was revered. To the feds, Pretty Boy Floyd was a venomous, manipulative scoundrel who was egregiously lionized as an antihero with a heart of gold. A career bank robber supposedly associated with up to 40 bank robberies, his face would soon be plastered on the 1934 poster of the FBI's Most Wanted alongside John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Alvin Karper.
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Pretty Boy Floyd: The Notorious Life and Death of the Depression Era Outlaw
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-03-19
- Language: English
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Coral Sea and Midway
- The History of the World War II Battles That Turned the Tide in the Pacific Theater
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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The growing buzz of aircraft engines disturbed the Japanese military construction personnel hauling equipment ashore on the beige coral sand of Tulagi Island at 8:20 AM on May 4th, 1942. Offshore, the large IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) minelayer Okinoshima, flagship of Admiral Shima Kiyohide, lay at anchor, along with two destroyers, Kikuzuki and Yutsuki, and transport ships.
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Coral Sea and Midway
- The History of the World War II Battles That Turned the Tide in the Pacific Theater
- Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-03-17
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Bob Dylan
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Christian Carvajal
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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In the space of just a few years, Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, rose from the obscurity of a small Minnesota town to a position of royalty atop the folk music landscape. Not content to remain for long within that niche, however, he went on to conquer rock with elements of blues, jazz, pop, country, gospel, rockabilly, and ethnic music of the British Isles, not to mention authoring several books, working in film soundtracks, acting, and holding international art exhibits of his work along the way.
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American Legends: The Life of Bob Dylan
- Narrated by: Christian Carvajal
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-06-15
- Language: English
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The Battle of Sekigahara
- The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers armed to the teeth with swords, yari (spears), arrows, muskets, and cannons, faced off on a battlefield near the town of Sekigahara. A bitter fight to the death ensued, and the results would determine the course of Japanese history for the next 250 years. On the battlefield was the warlord Leyasu Tokugawa, a man desiring domain over the entire island of Japan, but standing in his way was Ishida Mitsunari, a warlord controlling vast swaths of western Japan.
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The Battle of Sekigahara
- The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-01-20
- Language: English
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The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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There is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the Andaman Islands, so his brief description of the islanders must have been drawn from a secondary source. They were, he wrote, “a most brutish and savage race, having heads, eyes, and teeth like those of dogs. They are very cruel, and kill and eat every foreigner whom they can lay their hands upon.”
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reads like a Google search (and not all true)
- By Anonymous on 12-08-21
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The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-04-19
- Language: English
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Rousseau and Voltaire
- The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Linsenmayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited with the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as the value of the individual, collective freedom, and liberty. At the heart of the movement in France was François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, whose writings advocated for greater liberalism, including freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a biting polemic whose satirical attacks on the Catholic Church were among the fiercest of his day.
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Rousseau and Voltaire
- The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Mark Linsenmayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-06-15
- Language: English
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The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
- The Story of the Deadliest Natural Disaster of the 21st Century
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Kevin Zerbe
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Around eight o'clock a.m. on December 26, a massive earthquake registering 9.1-9.3 on the Richter Scale struck off of Sumatra, Indonesia, making it the third strongest earthquake ever recorded by seismographs. On top of that, the earthquake shook for nearly 10 minutes and generated incredibly strong tsunami waves. Thanks to the element of surprise, people in the region had virtually no warning of what was coming. The tsunami waves pulverized entire towns and swept away hundreds of thousands of people across Southeast Asia.
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The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
- The Story of the Deadliest Natural Disaster of the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Kevin Zerbe
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-05-15
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Buster Keaton
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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In the 1920s, the burgeoning movie industry was starting to come into its own. Alongside actor and director Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton was at the peak of Hollywood. It’s no surprise that Keaton was so effective in silent films. He had been practicing comedy in his family’s vaudeville acts as “The Little Boy Who Can’t Be Damaged”, and became a popular performer by the age of 5.
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American Legends: The Life of Buster Keaton
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-05-15
- Language: English
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