COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085 - jo

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MaryinArkansas wrote: August 16th, 2021, 3:38 pm I've just uploaded a recording. Or at least I hope I did, as the site pooped out on me a few minutes after. Anyway, the MP3 is: snf085_hydrophobia_anonymous_mh_128kb.mp3. Word count is approximately 450, Recorded length: 02:24.

If it didn't upload let me know and I'll try again.

Online source: https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1821-08-18_1_3/page/n1/mode/2up?q=hydrophobia

Article “Hydrophobia” is on Page 2, Column 5.

I also PM'd an easier to read version to Sue from my Google Drive.
Hi Mary, Thanks for this additional contribution to 085! :D Could you please try uploading your file again? I need the actual URL from the uploaded file to be able to PL. Thanks!
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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
―Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard.

Mary :)📚
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MaryinArkansas wrote: August 16th, 2021, 5:26 pm Here's the link to the Hydrophobia article!
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf085_hydrophobia_anonymous_mh_128kb.mp3
Thanks, Mary, That's quite a vivid description of a man dying from rabies! :D Thankfully, in the U.S. nowadays, rabies can prevented, as anyone with a cat or dog knows, by vaccination of our pets.

I looked up the herb called "skull cap," which was mentioned in the account. It's in the mint family and is apparently still sold as a herbal remedy for various ailments: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?
taxonid=281434, https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-986/skullcap

PK OK! :thumbs:
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I thought the short rabies article was interesting and worth recording. I had no idea that the virus could remain in a person for so long.
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
―Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard.

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Good Evening:

The House Famine
Unattributed
From Popular Magazine, October 7, 1921
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 2:55


Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf085_housefamin_unattributed_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://archive.org/details/popular-magazine-v-061-n-06-1921-10-07/page/138/mode/2up



A hundred years, and only the names have changed...

Thanks
Dale
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Hi Craig, Thanks for this selection from Feltham's Resolves! :D Your recording is PL OK! Feltham looks like an interesting writer. From "On Women": ..."men have always held the Parliament, and have enacted their own wills, without ever hearing them [women] speak: and then how easy it is to conclude them guilty?"

I dipped into a couple of the short essays either side of the one you chose for vol. 085, and really liked "Of Being Over-Valued."
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Grothmann wrote: August 17th, 2021, 10:00 pm Good Evening:

The House Famine
Unattributed
From Popular Magazine, October 7, 1921
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 2:55

A hundred years, and only the names have changed...

Thanks
Dale
Hi Dale, Thanks for this timely and perceptive choice of reading for vol. 085! "It was found that the country was in need of over a million new dwelling houses, and that it would cost five billion dollars to build them." [1921]. How true what you said
Grothmann wrote: August 17th, 2021, 10:00 pm

A hundred years, and only the names have changed...
PL OK! :thumbs:
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Thanks Sue :D

I've been meaning to read something by Owen Faltham.

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The world needs some positive fanaticism.

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Hi Craig, PL Ok! :D An intriguing selection! For certain, it illustrates the universal propensity to typecast people whose facial features do not match those of the writer; hence "men with the head of a dog." Whether accurately or not, I don't know, but this article from the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1847) tried to determine who these "cynocephali" actually were: https://books.google.com/books?id=zqBJAAAAcAAJ, pp. 47 ff.

I was, personally, interested in the mention of the insect-based red dye produced by "an animal about the size of a beetle, red as cinnabar." https://www.clothroads.com/natural-dyes-lac/ During the colonial period in the Americas,
Spain tried to maintain a monopoly on Mexico's version of this dye, cochineal; it was expensive stuff. https://archive.org/details/travelstooaxaca_1906_librivox,
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You are a great researcher Sue :thumbs:

Thanks for listening and for the links :D

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BettyB wrote: August 23rd, 2021, 10:04 am https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf085_icecreamandices_anonymous_bbs_128kb.mp3

"Ice Cream and Ices"
Pillsbury Cookbook 1914 anonymous

http://archive.org/details/pillsburycookboo00unse/page/58/mode/2up

Time is 14.22

BettyB
Hi Betty, Many thanks for this collection of Pillsbury "comfort-food" ice-cream recipes! :D I will say, reluctantly, that just reading the recipes, rather than making--and consuming--the ice cream, is probably the better part of valor. I shudder to think of the calorie count that would follow the recipe for Vanilla Ice Cream (sized for 6 servings): 1 pint cream; 1 pint milk; 1 pound [2 cups] sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract; 9 eggs!

PL OK! :thumbs:
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I recorded an Encyclopedia Britannica entry about one trading empire, the Hansa, so here comes another, the Dutch East India Company


https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf085_dutcheastindiacompany_ecyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 9:47
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