Photography 101 Using your camera.
Join me on my Discord server, Church of the Cathode Follower. Most things are open for discussion, especially technology and the visual arts. As well of course the woo.
If you have a little spare cash, and would like to help support a really great community organisation, please consider the Grow Organisation. They have been supporting me for a couple of years now, and is in real danger of closing at the moment. Find them here:
And here's a direct link to the PayPal donate page:
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. France was undergoing massive social upheaval, as the new bourgeoisie jockeyed for position alongside the old aristocracy. Against this backdrop, we follow the lives of Goriot, an old man who irrationally dotes on his daughters; Vautrin, a shadowy criminal mastermind; and Rastignac, a young man from the provinces who studies how to navigate the complexities and climb the ladder of Parisian society. Balzac's masterful use of physical and psychological detail makes this book a landmark in the development of realism in western literature.
Translated by Ellen Marriage.
Chapter 1 - 00:00
Chapter 2 - 42:52
Chapter 3 - 1:15:26
Chapter 4 - 1:33:03
Chapter 5 - 1:57:46
Chapter 6 - 2:08:38
Chapter 7 - 2:37:57
Chapter 8 - 3:26:36
Chapter 9 - 3:52:46
Chapter 10 - 4:41:32
Chapter 11 - 5:27:43
Chapter 12 - 6:12:50
Chapter 13 - 6:56:00
Chapter 14 - 7:37:11
Chapter 15 - 8:18:33
Chapter 16 - 8:54:45
Chapter 17 - 9:36:51
Chapter 18 - 10:20:13
Chapter 19 - 10:50:39
Translated by Ellen Marriage
Read by Bruce Pirie (
Jose JG Gonzalez Open Discussion - 179 - After show
Join me on my Discord server, Church of the Cathode Follower. Most things are open for discussion, especially technology and the visual arts. As well of course the woo.
If you have a little spare cash, and would like to help support a really great community organisation, please consider the Grow Organisation. They have been supporting me for a couple of years now, and is in real danger of closing at the moment. Find them here:
And here's a direct link to the PayPal donate page:
Colonial history of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Colonial history of the United States
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of the Americas from the start of colonization in the early 16th century until their incorporation into the United States of America. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in eastern North America. Small early attempts sometimes disappeared, such as the English Lost Colony of Roanoke. Everywhere, the death rate was very high among the first arrivals. Nevertheless, successful colonies were established within several decades.
European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups, including adventurers, soldiers, farmers, indentured servants, tradesmen, and a few from the aristocracy. Settlers traveling to the continent included the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, the English Catholics and Protestant nonconformists of the Province of Maryland, the worthy poor of the Province of Georgia, the Germans who settled the mid-Atlantic colonies, and the Ulster Scots people of the Appalachian Mountains. These groups all became part of the United States when it gained its independence in 1776. Russian America and parts of New France and New Spain were also incorporated into the United States at various points. The diverse groups from these various regions built colonies of distinctive social, religious, political, and economic style.
Over time, non-British colonies East of the Mississippi River were taken over and most of the inhabitants were assimilated. In Nova Scotia, however, the British expelled the French Acadians, and many relocated to Louisiana. No major civil wars occurred in the thirteen colonies. The two chief armed rebellions were short-lived failures in Virginia in 1676 and in New York in 1689–91. Some of the colonies developed legalized systems of slavery, centered largely around the Atlantic slave trade. Wars were recurrent between the French and the British during the French and Indian Wars. By 1760, France was defeated and its colonies were seized by Britain.
On the eastern seaboard, the four distinct English regions were New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake Bay Colonies (Upper South), and the Southern Colonies (Lower South). Some historians add a fifth region of the Frontier, which was never separately organized. By the time that European settlers arrived around 1600–1650, a significant percentage of the Indians living in the eastern region had been ravaged by disease, possibly introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors (although no conclusive cause has ever been established).