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In 1865 France, a mere youth devises a way to fame and fortune through murder and mayhem. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in France during the reign of Louis Napoleon. It concerns a missing family and several freshly opened graves.

A story set in Rutland, Vermont, 1817. A man dances in the moonlight with the Little People.

The first show of the series, a summer replacement for Suspense. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States. The script was used as an audition for the series, recorded December 3, 1952. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas Hyland’s report to you on Crime of Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States.

Mr. Hayes returns from war to his lonely wife to find her afrolic with two comely boarders. His head is shortly thereafter found by the side of the Thames...and then encapsulated in a glass jar. Warwickshire, England, in the year 1785 and a lovely young lady whose married name was Catherine Hayes and whose ambition was to be a widow, this is the story of John Hayes, his head, and how they were parted.

A large, powerful gent of Scotland and his small companion engage in a nautical life of crime.

A lovely lady is also a liberal user of arsenic. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in Glasgow, Scotland, in the year 1857.

Life and death in 1866 Missouri...mostly death. Before the Civil War there was a border war. The boys from Kansas took guns to hand and shot up the boys from Missouri, and the next Saturday night vice versa. Then it got so they didn’t wait until Saturday night; every day was a bloody day for everybody. The question now arises, why? The answer is simple: a difference of opinion about slavery, and they couldn’t wait until war was declared. Thomas Hyland brings his report on The Younger Brothers and why some of them Grew No Older.

A famous pirate gets his. The year is 1714, and the place is the Caribbean.

The satirical novel, Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a critique of the social pressure toward conformity and what Lewis regarded as the emptiness of middle-class life. The setting is the city of Zenith in the Midwest. The book’s first seven chapters describe a day in the life of a realtor, George F. Babbitt, starting with his morning routine. 

Did you know that a measles outbreak led to the assigning of phone numbers? How about the fact that pirates are the reason we don’t use the metric system in the United States? Or that there’s actually a reason why stepping on a Lego hurts so damn much? Now I Know: The Soviets Invaded Wisconsin?! is the ultimate challenge for even the biggest trivia buff. Based on the very popular newsletter, you are guaranteed to learn something new despite how much you already think you know.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, also known as Alice through the Looking-Glass is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world she can see beyond it.

This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story.

A disturbing chronicle of the US government’s mistreatment of American soldiers and veterans throughout history, with a new introduction by Charles Sheehan-Miles. Time and time again, the sacrifices made by veterans and their families have been repaid with scorn, discrimination, lack of health services, scant financial compensation, and other indignities. This injustice dates back as far as the American Revolution....

Sylvie and Bruno was the last novel completed by Lewis Carroll and was published in two parts. The first volume, which is the subject of this recording, appeared in 1889. The story is presented by an unnamed narrator, who oscillates between two worlds: a fantasy fairyland, populated by characters similar to those in Alice in Wonderland, and the real world environs of a small village by the sea, in which the narrator has taken up temporary residence for health reasons.

Alice s'ennuie auprès de sa sœur qui lit un livre ("sans images, ni dialogues") tandis qu'elle ne fait rien. "À quoi bon un livre sans images, ni dialogues ?", se demande Alice. Mais voilà qu'un lapin blanc aux yeux roses vêtu d'une redingote passe près d'elle en courant. Cela ne l'étonne pas le moins du monde. Pourtant, lorsqu'elle le voit sortir une montre à gousset de sa poche et s'écrier : "Je suis en retard ! En retard ! En retard !", elle se dit que décidément ce lapin a quelque chose de spécial.

La suite du roman si célèbre "Alice au pays des merveilles". Le monde du miroir se présente comme un monde inversé. Ainsi Alice, pour atteindre le jardin, doit-elle d'abord s'en éloigner, de même qu'il lui faut, dans cet univers étrange, courir très vite pour rester sur place. Tout comme l'espace, le temps n'est pas non plus en reste et se trouve complétement distordu. Les personnages auxquels Alice se trouve confrontée sont en fait de véritables linguistes, dont les discours sont une contestation magistrale de l'arbitraire du langage. 

Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - 1858) was an African American and Native American author, inventor, and entrepreneur. In the ethnological work Light and Truth, Lewis claims that Adam and Eve were people of color, as were the Egyptians and many great figures of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar and Plato. Denouncing notions of white superiority, he asserts that all humans have a common origin, and pointed to a shared cultural history between Africans and Native Americans.

In der beschaulichen Amisch-Gemeinschaft von Hickory Hollow scheint die Zeit stehen geblieben zu sein. Auch für die junge Katie Lapp. Nach alter Tradition soll sie zu ihrer Hochzeit - wie schon ihre Mutter - ein schlichtes Feierkleid tragen. Doch sie findet noch mehr auf dem Dachboden ihres Vaterhauses - ein Säuglingskleid aus kostbarem Satin. Dass ein Amisch-Kind es getragen haben könnte, ist ausgeschlossen, doch wer war das Baby, das dieses Schmuckstück trug? Als Katie dem Geheimnis auf die Spur kommt, zerfällt ihr bisheriges Leben in seine Einzelteile.

From the producers behind the popular YouTube channel Chilling Tales for Dark Nights comes this exclusive, twisted tale of terror from authors Craig Groshek and Nathaniel Lewis - an original story inspired by the Taylor Swift song of the same name - in which a charming gentleman with dark ulterior motives goes out of his ways to help a young woman beginning for an escape from him humdrum life. When he spirits her overseas, however, the true nature of their affections becomes painfully clear, and they both get far more than they bargained for.

Terra 1949 - Narnia 2555. Il ciclo di Narnia è arrivato alla sua conclusione e tutti i personaggi dei sei romanzi precedenti vengono alla ribalta per salutare, dall'aquila Alidifuoco all'unicorno Diamante. Ma i veri eroi di questo "gran finale" sono Tirian, ultimo discendente dei re di Narnia, Jill ed Eustachio, che devono smascherare un assurdo impostore. Le forze del bene e del male si preparano alla battaglia decisiva, ma alla fine è al "cuore delle cose" che tutti dovranno guardare.