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Chapter V - Miscellaneous Matters - Part Three

In The American Postal Service, Second Edition

Read by Rosie Roberts

Louis Melius

The history of the postal service in the United States goes back to the colonial period, but was established more formally with the issuing …

Chapter 6

In Three Little Kittens

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Katharine Pyle

Jazbury, Yowler and Fluffy are three brave and curious kittens craving adventure. Join them as they accidentally venture into the woods and …

The Happy Evening

In The Fairchild Family

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Mary Martha Sherwood

The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their acti…

Vol 1, Ch 2: Of the chemical knowledge possessed by the Ancients, Part 4

In The History of Chemistry

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Thomas Thomson

Origin and progress of chemistry, from its beginnings in alchemy into the early 19th century including history and characters of important c…

THE SHOOTING-STAR -- Among the Grasses

In Flower Stories

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Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

This volume contains stories, poems, and facts about lots of different flowers, intended for teaching children. It is divided into thirteen …

Book V - Chapter 1

In Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

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Xenophon

The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

The Blue Castle (Version 2)

Read by Bryn Roberts

Lucy Maud Montgomery

"The Blue Castle" by L. M. Montgomery tells the story of Valancy Stirling, a repressed and timid woman living under the control of…

Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers

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Edith Hubback Brown

"Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" by Edith & John Hubback is a biography that explores the lives of Jane Austen's two sailor bro…

Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the School of the Japanese Colour-print Artists

Read by Bryn Roberts

Dora Amsden

Ukiyo-ye prepared Japan for intercourse with other nations by developing in the common people an interest in other countries, in science and…