COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083 - jo

[KevinS]

Murder at Sea by Sir Archibald Hurd (1869-1959)

https://archive.org/details/murderatsea00hurduoft/page/n2/mode/1up

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_murderatsea_hurd_ks_128kb.mp3 (51:36)

[Sue Anderson]

Murder at Sea by Sir Archibald Hurd (1869-1959)

https://archive.org/details/murderatsea00hurduoft/page/n2/mode/1up

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_murderatsea_hurd_ks_128kb.mp3 (51:36)

Hi Kevin, Thank you for your contribution to vol. 083! It will be good to have two accounts of the Lusitania tragedy together in the volume! Hurd's overview of German submarine warfare is also informative.

Your selection is mostly well read. There are just a few edits needed.

On the first page of text, at 1:04, there is an extra word inserted. Text reads "A shroud would be raised and a hasty, furtive shrinking glance taken." You said "a hasty, furtive, shrinking furtive glance...

page 5, 5:36 top of page Text reads "it was impossible to believe that there existed men in high places..." What I heard was "it was possible to believe"

Page 5, last paragraph, beginning at 6:48 and ending at 7:15, you have a repeat, beginning with "its agents enjoying American hospitality..."

[KevinS]

Corrections made!

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_murderatsea_hurd_ks_128kb.mp3 (51:23)

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Kevin, PL OK!

[Piotrek81]

Here's another short entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica, this time on Eratosthenes, who, over 2000 years ago arrived at a good approximation of the Earth's circumference.


https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_eratosthenes_encyclopediabritannica_pn81.mp3 duration 3:30

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35398/35398-h/35398-h.htm#ar15

[Sue Anderson]

Here's another short entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica, this time on Eratosthenes, who, over 2000 years ago arrived at a good approximation of the Earth's circumference.


https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_eratosthenes_encyclopediabritannica_pn81.mp3 duration 3:30

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35398/35398-h/35398-h.htm#ar15

Hi Piotrek81,

Thanks for introducing Eratosthenes (c. 276-c. 194 B.C.) to listeners of vol. 083! Scientist and chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria, Eratosthenes' "most lasting achievement was his remarkably accurate calculation of the Earth's circumference." https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/solar-system-and-earth/knowing-solar-system-earth/a/eratosthenes-of-cyrene.

The Greeks knew the earth was a sphere, but the "flat earth theory" was, nevertheless, still alive into the 20th century, occasioning a bibliography prepared for the U.S. Library of Congress. See this post by David Wales viewtopic.php?f=24&t=87513 and The Flat Earth and Its Advocates: A List of References
https://guides.loc.gov/flat-earth

Piotrek81, your reading was PL OK as far as it went, but you left off the last paragraph of the article, beginning "Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology..." You don't need to read the comments about sources for the fragments, which follows this paragraph.

[tac107]

Piotrek unknowingly gave me the idea to do something from the encyclopedia, which is super smart.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_bullrun_encyclopediabritannica_tac_128kb.mp3
Duration 10:23

The article is Bull Run from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19846/19846-h/19846-h.htm

I don't know how to link to the exact article in the text, but if someone tells me I can.

[Sue Anderson]

Piotrek unknowingly gave me the idea to do something from the encyclopedia, which is super smart.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_bullrun_encyclopediabritannica_tac_128kb.mp3
Duration 10:23

The article is Bull Run from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19846/19846-h/19846-h.htm

I don't know how to link to the exact article in the text, but if someone tells me I can.

Hi Tatiana, Glad you were inspired by a fellow LibriVoxer to read another selection for vol. 083! Your citation is fine; the article on Bull Run is easy to locate within the volume.

PL OK!

[Piotrek81]

Fixed and re-uploaded. New runtime 3:58

[Piotrek81]

Piotrek unknowingly gave me the idea to do something from the encyclopedia, which is super smart.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_bullrun_encyclopediabritannica_tac_128kb.mp3
Duration 10:23

The article is Bull Run from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19846/19846-h/19846-h.htm

I don't know how to link to the exact article in the text, but if someone tells me I can.

It's an ample source of reading material, if controversial:

In 1917, using the pseudonym of S. S. Van Dine, the US art critic and author Willard Huntington Wright published Misinforming a Nation, a 200+ page criticism of inaccuracies and biases of the Encyclopædia Britannica eleventh edition. Wright claimed that Britannica was "characterized by misstatement, inexcusable omissions, rabid and patriotic prejudices, personal animosities, blatant errors of fact, scholastic ignorance, gross neglect of non-British culture, an astounding egotism, and an undisguised contempt for American progress"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition#Notable_commentary_on_the_Eleventh_Edition
Also, the Project Gutenberg-available version only extends to "Magnetism".

[Sue Anderson]

Fixed and re-uploaded. New runtime 3:58

Thanks! PL OK

[Piotrek81]

Fixed and re-uploaded. New runtime 3:58

Thanks! PL OK

I don't know how significant that is, but the runtime hasn't been updated in the MW.

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Piotrek81! Updated.

[soupy]

Letter from Françoise d'Aubigné To Mme. de Fontaine April 20, 1713
By Françoise d'Aubigné 1635-1719
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_d%27Aubign%C3%A9,_Marquise_de_Maintenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Marie_Madeleine_Fontaine

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43283

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_fontaines_daubigne_cc_128kb.mp3

3:55

Starts with - Do not let us complain, my dear sister

Craig

[Sue Anderson]

Letter from Françoise d'Aubigné To Mme. de Fontaine April 20, 1713
By Françoise d'Aubigné 1635-1719
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_d%27Aubign%C3%A9,_Marquise_de_Maintenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Marie_Madeleine_Fontaine

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43283

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_fontaines_daubigne_cc_128kb.mp3

3:55

Starts with - Do not let us complain, my dear sister

Craig

Hi Craig, thanks for your second contribution to vol. 083! What came to mind when I listened to this was a recent article (accompanied by before and after photos) from the NYTimes titled "Yearbook Photos of Girls Were Altered to Hide Their Chests." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/us/yearbook-photos-st-johns-girls-altering.html

You have only one small edit. Bottom of page 265, at 2:50, text reads "There is much more immodesty in such proceedings..." You said "modesty"