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2022-02-22 19:54
[caption id="attachment_6041" align="alignright" width="300"]Old drawing of a great whale attacking the Essex in 1820[/caption]
There was one less whale ship butchering whales in 1820. A… Read More
2021-12-22 17:55
The world’s most famous sailor struggled by himself in his 35-foot sloop against winds that shoved and buried the bow and him under water. Crawling on the bowsprit, trying to adjust… Read More
2021-05-14 16:39
[caption id="attachment_5975" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It can be beautiful -it can be deadly.[/caption]
Three men of the John… Read More
2021-04-12 21:32
At 7:30 on a cold and rainy morning, April 15, 1865, Dr. Charles Augustus Leale sadly pronounced dead Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
Then, Leale walked across 10th Stre… Read More
2021-03-18 17:16
[caption id="attachment_5865" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Amelia Earhart[/caption]
On June 18, 1928, women throughout the world watched a new female role model unleash new potential f… Read More
2021-01-14 18:34
[caption id="attachment_5781" align="aligncenter" width="220"] Poster from 1852 Presidential campaign[/caption]
The first Presidential Election in California was in 1852, pitting Democrat… Read More
2020-12-02 18:51
There is something about a dog that affects me emotionally. Like most people, I anthropomorphize the actions of my dog as if he were literate, intuitive and highly philosophical. Th… Read More
2020-08-29 19:38
[caption id="attachment_5635" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Moonrise at Death Valley California[/caption]
Now is not the time to explore Death Valley landscape. On Sunday August 16, 2… Read More
2020-07-16 17:37
The second most famous whale in the world had no name. We don’t know when it was born or when it died.We just know what it did.On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific O… Read More
2020-06-26 17:29
[caption id="attachment_5548" align="alignnone" width="450"] Slaves cutting sugar Cane in Cuba[/caption]
Should the United State of America attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain and make Cu… Read More
2020-05-13 17:00
Before the invention of the Internet, “Yahoo” was the word used to describe a not very bright, brutish male totally without class.
Imagine a group of these “yahoos&r… Read More
2020-04-06 17:36
[caption id="attachment_5455" align="aligncenter" width="500"] World War 1 Prisoners in a German prison camp[/caption]
During the pandemic of World War 1 in 1918, the last place you would w… Read More
2020-02-26 18:01
[caption id="attachment_5414" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Flora Wellman, Jack London's mother[/caption]
In 1874, an unmarried woman, Flora Wellman, was abandoned in San Francisco, wher… Read More
2019-12-20 18:27
[caption id="attachment_5372" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The first White House Christmas Tree, installed by President Franklin Pierce in either 1853 or 1856.[/caption]
THEODORE ROOSEV… Read More
2019-08-01 17:17
[caption id="attachment_5310" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Presidential campaign poster for McKinley for President and Roosevelt for Vice President, 1900[/caption]
Theodore Roosevelt I… Read More
2018-12-15 18:05
[caption id="attachment_5234" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The real North Pole, all water and ice.[/caption]
Before 1908, other than Santa Claus, no human being had reached the North Po… Read More
2018-10-04 18:47
[caption id="attachment_5163" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Great Ohio flood of 1884.[/caption]
Two major storms in different parts of the United States changed the mindset of… Read More
2018-07-28 17:56
[caption id="attachment_5113" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Offshore oil drilling platform[/caption]
Gasoline is costing you and me more and more each day. It is possible that a tiny coun… Read More
2018-05-23 16:56
[caption id="attachment_5022" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Kilauea erupts on the Big Island of Hawaii (USGS).[/caption]
The frightening television pictures of the volcano Kilauea erup… Read More
2018-04-11 17:01
154 years ago this month, April 14, 1865, Mary and Abraham Lincoln invited a young couple to join them to see the popular English comedy play “Our American Cousin." As it turned out… Read More
2018-03-06 17:01
[caption id="attachment_4850" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Wright flying machine circles the Eiffel Tower in 1909.[/caption]
It’s Women’s History Month and I’ve been r… Read More
2018-01-18 17:16
[caption id="attachment_4787" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Galapagos Islands seals.[/caption]
Our confident, high stock market reminds me of another high stock market early in 1929. Tha… Read More
2017-12-24 19:12
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Over the years, I have voiced many commercials and TV shows based on Clement Moore’s “Twas The Night Before Christma… Read More
2017-10-29 22:03
Dear Member of the Listen To Read Audiobook community:
Here is a little free Halloween gift for you.
Just for fun, I recorded “The Terrible Old Man,” a classic, short gothic h… Read More
2017-10-05 16:14
[caption id="attachment_4650" align="aligncenter" width="375"] Captain Joshua Slocum, world famous adventurer and author.[/caption]
On the chilly Sunday morning of the 14th of November,1909… Read More
2017-08-23 16:02
[caption id="attachment_4595" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Humpback Whale[/caption]
Just when you thought sharks were the only animals to avoid while in the ocean, it seems some angry w… Read More
2017-07-06 15:57
[caption id="attachment_4560" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bears Ears National Monument, re-examined for being too large.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4563" align="alignright" wi… Read More
2017-05-09 16:13
Here was the dilemma:
Which of these two stunningly beautiful, one of a kind, world class, historically priceless, irreplaceable, works of nature should the US government totally sacri… Read More
2017-03-22 16:09
[caption id="attachment_4290" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Sinking British passenger ship Lusitania, torpedoed without warning in 1915 by a German U-Boat, off the Irish coast. Great Bri… Read More
2017-02-22 17:07
There is a secret in this picture I took last year outside the Summer Palace, Beijing, China. Inside that building, all the doors and windows are blocked by an inside wall so the occupant… Read More
2017-01-18 17:59
[caption id="attachment_4209" align="aligncenter" width="475"] Border fence between Arizona, USA and Mexico[/caption]
Building a border wall between Mexico and the United States is a hot su… Read More
2016-12-25 00:54
“A Visit from St. Nicholas” was written by Clemente Moore in 1823.
I recorded it recently and thought I would share it pur Listen To Read community during this Holiday Season… Read More
2016-12-08 16:56
[caption id="attachment_4098" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Buying a slave in Havana, Cuba 1837.[/caption]
If you or I were plantation slaves in Cuba in 1859, our value would have been s… Read More
2016-10-20 16:04
[caption id="attachment_4039" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Flag of the President of the United States of America.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4027" align="alignleft" width="213"]… Read More
2016-09-15 16:06
[caption id="attachment_3984" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Spanish conquer Natives (Founding of Santiago by Pedro Lira 1889)[/caption]
The invaders had been brutal. They turned the popu… Read More
2016-08-10 18:45
[caption id="attachment_3886" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Olympic flag flies over Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[/caption]
Watching the Olympic games from Brazil on televisi… Read More
2016-06-24 16:13
[caption id="attachment_3734" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Sea of Ice, 1823–1824, a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, inspired by William Edward Parry's account from his 181… Read More
2016-05-17 16:28
[caption id="attachment_3630" align="alignleft" width="400"] Clearing the dry irrigation channel to make way for water.[/caption]
In a hot, dusty, field in Guyana, workers desperately… Read More
2016-04-06 17:58
151 years ago this month, a vicious, violent attack on the United Stated government took place: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
But there was a second assassination atte… Read More
2016-03-09 22:42
[caption id="attachment_3366" align="aligncenter" width="470"] Jack and Charmian London in fancy dress aboard the Snark, on their way to adventure.[/caption]
Jack London made two big mistak… Read More
2016-02-03 21:40
[caption id="attachment_3272" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "Prairie Meadow Burning" by George Catlin, 1832.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_3259" align="alignleft" width="234"]… Read More
2016-01-06 19:10
[caption id="attachment_3134" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Amelia Earhart checking over equipment in her plane.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_3123" align="alignright" width="150"] C… Read More
2015-12-02 17:35
[caption id="attachment_3179" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "In The Heart of the Sea" production still from the motion picture directed by Ron Howard.[/caption]
Ron Howard has just direc… Read More
2015-10-27 01:54
When I was a teenager and home alone one night, I started reading an old, used book of short stories I had picked up on sale. It was written by an author I had never heard of. His name is… Read More
2015-10-07 16:20
[caption id="attachment_3066" align="aligncenter" width="403"] Riding Green River bike trails. Promotional photo by the Sweetwater Mountain Bike Association.[/caption]
Green River Wyoming t… Read More
2015-09-09 17:13
[caption id="attachment_2944" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Yosemite National Park Upper and Lower Falls viewed from the forest floor.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2950" align="alig… Read More
2015-08-13 16:22
[caption id="attachment_2873" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Animus River, August 2015, near Durango, Colorado, polluted by an accident at the long abandoned Gold King mine[/caption]… Read More
2015-07-15 16:10
[caption id="attachment_2775" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Humpback Whale breaching[/caption]
The brutal murder of the earth’s whale population for many years has had animal right… Read More
2015-06-24 16:01
[caption id="attachment_2679" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Posing for the "Into the Sea" poster in Baluchistan. From left to right, Shalha Yasini, Easkey Britton and Mona Seraji. Credit… Read More
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