Equal Earth Gig
An outing for the Drum Club. Because of noisy events at our usual venue we ventured out to the Heritage Quarter of Gravesend, a shop called Equal Earth in the High Street and more specifically the basement ArtiZen Gallery, a really nice live space with great artwork that injected extra energy into our drumming! Thanks to Geno and everyone at Equal Earth! You can catch up with them at
Sikh confusion over the path to God
Attempting to give parchar (or da'wah) to a Muslim, this member of Basics of Sikhi exemplifies the confusion that is inherent in Sikhism when speaking of the path to God.
Two Poets with Cole Swensen and Rukmini Bhaya Nair
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New Zealand Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:53 1 1825 expedition
00:05:05 2 Wakefield's influence grows
00:10:31 3 Charter offered, then withdrawn
00:17:50 4 The 1839 expedition and land purchases
00:23:52 5 The Treaty of Waitangi
00:27:04 6 The settlement of Wellington
00:31:51 7 Nelson
00:35:42 8 Government intervention
00:40:47 8.1 William Spain's land inquiry
00:45:31 9 Further settlements
00:48:41 10 Financial difficulties and dissolution
00:51:22 11 See also
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The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 1800s on a business model focused on the systematic colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere. Under Wakefield’s model, the colony would attract capitalists who would then have a ready supply of labour—migrant labourers who could not initially afford to be property owners, but who would have the expectation of one day buying land with their savings.The New Zealand Company established settlements at Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui and Dunedin and also became involved in the settling of New Plymouth and Christchurch. The original New Zealand Company started in 1825, with little success, then rose as a new company when it merged with Wakefield's New Zealand Association in 1837, received its royal charter in 1840, reached the peak of efficiency about 1841, encountered financial problems from 1843 from which it never recovered, returned its charter in 1850 and wound up all remaining business with a final report in 1858.
The company’s board members included aristocrats, members of Parliament and a prominent magazine publisher, who used their political connections to ceaselessly lobby the British government to achieve its aims. The company indulged in many questionable land purchases from Māori, in many cases reselling land it did not own, and launched elaborate, grandiose and sometimes fraudulent advertising campaigns. It vigorously attacked those it perceived as its opponents—chiefly the British Colonial Office, successive governors of New Zealand, the Church Missionary Society and prominent missionary the Rev. Henry Williams—and it stridently opposed the Treaty of Waitangi, which was an obstacle to the company obtaining the greatest possible amount of New Zealand land at the cheapest price. The company, in turn, was frequently criticised by the Colonial Office and New Zealand Governors for its trickery and lies. Missionaries in New Zealand were also critical of the company, fearing its activities would lead to the “conquest and extermination” of Maori inhabitants.
The company viewed itself as a prospective quasi-government of New Zealand and in 1845 and 1846 proposed splitting the colony in two, along a line from Mokau in the west to Cape Kidnappers in the east—with the north reserved for Māori and missionaries, while the south would become a self-governing province, known as New Victoria and managed by the company for that purpose. Britain's Colonial Secretary rejected the proposal.Only 15,500 settlers arrived in New Zealand as part of the company's colonisation schemes, but three of its settlements would—along with Auckland—become and remain the country's main centres and provide the foundation for the system of provincial government introduced in 1853.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston S. Churchill
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.
The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta. Through this desolate region, man and beast struggled to supply the bare essentials of life. Though this same region, the expedition had to find and defeat an enemy several times larger than itself.
The young Churchill was hot to gain war experience to aid his career, and so he wangled a transfer to the 21st Lancers and participated in the last successful cavalry charge the world ever saw, in the climactic battle of Omdurman. He also had a position as war correspondent for the Morning Post, and on his return to England he used his notes to compose this book.
Chapter 01. The Rebellion of the Mahdi - 00:00
Chapter 02. The Fate of the Envoy - 1:24:09
Chapter 03. The Dervish Empire - 2:45:41
Chapter 04. The Years of Preparation - 3:33:13
Chapter 05. The Beginning of the War - 4:15:26
Chapter 06. Firket - 5:00:59
Chapter 07. The Recovery of the Dongola Province - 5:21:57
Chapter 08. The Desert Railway - 6:15:20
Chapter 09. Abu Hamed - 7:04:52
Chapter 10. Berber - 7:46:23
Chapter 11. Reconaissance - 8:22:42
Chapter 12. The Battle of the Atbara - 8:52:56
Chapter 13. The Grand Advance - 9:21:50
Chapter 14. The Operations of the First of September - 9:50:47
Chapter 15. The Battle of Omdurman - 10:17:57
Chapter 16. The Fall of the City - 11:34:01
Chapter 17. The Fashoda Incident - 11:55:29
Chapter 18. On the Blue Nile - 12:28:57
Chapter 19. The End of the Khalifa - 13:12:58
Appendix - 13:54:27
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel #1)
The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution.
Chapter 1. Paris: September, 1792 - 00:00
Chapter 2. Dover: The Fisherman's Rest - 15:27
Chapter 3. The Refugees - 33:22
Chapter 4. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - 47:14
Chapter 5. Marguerite - 1:02:00
Chapter 6. An Exquisite of '92 - 1:12:22
Chapter 7. The Secret Orchard - 1:30:43
Chapter 8. The Accredited Agent - 1:42:25
Chapter 9. The Outrage - 2:03:44
Chapter 10. In the Opera Box - 2:15:16
Chapter 11. Lord Grenville's Ball - 2:42:02
Chapter 12. The Scrap of Paper - 2:53:11
Chapter 13. Either - - Or? - 3:08:11
Chapter 14. One O'Clock Precisely - 3:12:34
Chapter 15. Doubt - 3:27:20
Chapter 16. Richmond - 3:37:06
Chapter 17. Farewell - 4:04:07
Chapter 18. The Mysterious Device - 4:16:39
Chapter 19. The Scarlet Pimpernel - 4:24:41
Chapter 20. The Friend - 4:41:14
Chapter 21. Suspense - 4:53:02
Chapter 22. Calais - 5:07:10
Chapter 23. Hope - 5:24:20
Chapter 24. The Death-Trap - 5:36:23
Chapter 25. The Eagle and the Fox - 5:48:38
Chapter 26. The Jew - 6:03:27
Chapter 27. On the Track - 6:18:48
Chapter 28. The Pere Blanchard's Hut - 6:32:05
Chapter 29. Trapped - 6:48:35
Chapter 30. The Schooner - 6:57:12
Chapter 31. The Escape - 7:18:34
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The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts (the Four of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
Chapter 1. The Science of Deduction - 00:00
Chapter 2. The Statement of the Case - 20:16
Chapter 3. In Quest of A Solution - 33:00
Chapter 4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man - 44:29
Chapter 5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge - 1:08:40
Chapter 6. Sherlock Holmes Gives A Demonstration - 1:25:09
Chapter 7. The Episode of the Barrel - 1:45:35
Chapter 8. The Baker Street Irregulars - 2:11:50
Chapter 9. A Break In the Chain - 2:33:06
Chapter 10. The End of The Islander - 2:54:33
Chapter 11. The Great Agra Treasure - 3:14:52
Chapter 12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small - 3:28:14
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Frankenstein Audiobook ; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley | Audiobook with subtitles
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and this audiobook is read from that text. Shelley's name appeared on the revised third edition, published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to the scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In modern popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as Frankenstein (especially in films since 1931), despite this being the name of the scientist, and the creature being unnamed in the book itself. Frankenstein is a novel infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the over-reaching of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully-realised science fiction novel and raises many issues still relevant to today's society. (Summary from wikipedia.org, adapted by Cori Samuel.)
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Audiobook with Subtitles
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.
The book contains an interesting discussion of slavery in West Africa and illustrates how the experience differs from the dehumanising slavery of the Americas. The Intereresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is also one of the first widely read slave narratives. It was generally reviewed favorably. (Wikipedia)
This work was produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah EQUIANO
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Chapters:
0:15 | Introductory
3:05 | Chapter 1
41:22 | Chapter 2
1:09:58 | Chapter 3
1:45:00 | Chapter 4
2:26:09 | Chapter 5
3:07:58 | Chapter 6
3:50:58 | Chapter 7
4:27:23 | Chapter 8
5:03:36 | Chapter 9
5:47:46 | Chapter 10
6:29:58 | Chapter 11
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The Sign of the Four Audiobook by A.Conan Doyle | Full Audiobook with subtitles | Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.
The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts (the Four of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. - Summary by Wikipedia
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Detective Fiction
The Sign of The Four (version 3)
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE
CHAPTERS:
0:16 - Chapter 1: The Science of Deduction
20:35 - Chapter 2: The Statement of the Case
33:26 - Chapter 3: In Quest of a Solution
45:05 - Chapter 4: The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
01:09:23 - Chapter 5: The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
01:26:00 - Chapter 6: Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
01:46:33 - Chapter 7: The Episode of the Barrel
02:12:55 - Chapter 8: The Baker Street Irregulars
02:34:18 - Chapter 9: A Break in the Chain
02:55:52 - Chapter 10: The End of the Islander
03:16:18 - Chapter 11: The Great Agra Treasure
03:29:47 - Chapter 12: The Strange Story of Jonathan Small
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The Diary of a Nobody Audiobook by George Grossmith | Audioboooks Youtube Free | Humorous Audiobooks
The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an incontestable faith that a record of his daily life was worth preserving for posterity.
Set in about 1891 in Holloway, which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind, the authors contrive a record of the manners, customs and experiences of the late Victorian era. The bare record of facts, simply recorded, manages to be humorous rather than dull, no doubt because of the usual occupations of the authors.
George Grossmith (1847-1912) was an actor and comedian.
Weedon Grossmith (1852-1919) was an entertainer and illustrated the original work.
(Summary by Martin Clifton)
The Diary of a Nobody
George GROSSMITH and Weedon GROSSMITH
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.
Read by Tomás Costal on the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Opening letters – 0:11
Chapter 1 – 34:23
Chapter 2 – 44:34
Chapter 3 – 57:42
Chapter 4 – 1:14:22
Chapter 5 – 1:29:25
Chapter 6 – 1:43:07
Chapter 7 – 1:59:07
Chapter 8 – 2:21:26
Chapter 9 – 2:40:44
Chapter 10 – 2:54:08
Chapter 11 – 3:09:17
Chapter 12 – 3:25:56
Chapter 13 – 3:38:27
Chapter 14 – 3:51:04
Chapter 15 – 4:02:00
Chapter 16 – 4:20:48
Chapter 17 – 4:40:42
Chapter 18 – 4:52:38
Chapter 19 – 5:09:40
Chapter 20 – 5:24:48
Chapter 21 – 5:45:07
Chapter 22 – 6:05:50
Chapter 23 – 6:25:22
Chapter 24 – 6:40:24
Final letters – 6:58:14
Credits – 7:31:29
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Picture credits: Theodore Von Holst (1810-1844) (Tate Britain. Private collection, Bath.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Sign of The Four by Arthur Conan Doyle | Audiobooks Youtube Free
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.
The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts (the Four of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. - Summary by Wikipedia
The Sign of The Four (version 3)
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Detective Fiction
Surrey | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:15 1 Geography
00:04:53 2 Settlements
00:06:35 3 History
00:06:44 3.1 Ancient British and Roman periods
00:08:25 3.2 Formation of Surrey
00:11:41 3.2.1 Identified sub-kings of Surrey
00:12:05 3.3 West Saxon and English shire
00:16:53 3.3.1 Identified iealdormen/i of Surrey
00:17:17 3.4 Later Medieval Surrey
00:24:53 3.5 Early Modern Surrey
00:32:07 3.6 Modern history
00:39:38 4 Historic architecture and monuments
00:42:33 5 Literature
00:46:48 6 Arts and sciences
00:49:15 7 Popular music
00:51:01 8 Sport
00:54:49 8.1 Surrey football clubs
00:55:53 9 Local government
00:56:03 9.1 History
00:59:35 9.2 Today
01:00:08 10 Economy
01:01:23 11 Transport
01:01:32 11.1 Road
01:04:15 11.2 Rail
01:09:25 11.3 Long-distance national services
01:10:07 11.4 Air
01:10:51 12 Education
01:11:59 12.1 Higher education
01:12:26 13 Emergency services
01:12:43 14 Places of interest
01:15:19 15 In popular culture
01:18:29 16 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Surrey ( SURR-ee) is a county in South East England which borders Kent to the east, West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the north-west, and Greater London to the north-east.
With about 1.2 million people, Surrey is the twelfth most populous English county, the third most populous home county, after Kent and Essex, and the third most populous in the South East, after Hampshire and Kent.
Guildford is popularly regarded as the county town, although Surrey County Council is based extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames.
Surrey is divided into eleven districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and Woking.
The London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, and parts of Lewisham and Bromley were in Surrey until 1889, as were Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton and the part of Richmond upon Thames on the right bank of the River Thames until 1965, when they were absorbed into Greater London, and the county extended north of the Thames by the addition of Spelthorne, as a result of the dissolution of Middlesex.
Surrey is a wealthy county due to economic, aesthetic, conservation and logistical factors. It has the highest GDP per capita of any English county, some of the highest property values outside Inner London, and also the highest cost of living outside of the capital.
Surrey has the highest proportion of woodland of counties in England. It has large protected green spaces (such as the North Downs, Greensand Ridge and related Surrey Hills AONB and royal landscapes adjoin it — Windsor Great Park and Bushy Park near the River Thames). It has four horse racing courses, and golf courses including international competition venue Wentworth.
Surrey is close to Heathrow and Gatwick airports and the M25, M3 and M23 motorways and has frequent rail services to central London.