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Rapunzelina wrote: July 7th, 2021, 1:35 pm Short title: Spectropia

Full title: Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of Any Colour

Author: J. H. Brown (dates unknown, 19th century)

mp3 link: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_spectropia_brown_r_128kb.mp3

duration: 16:43

text link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63842

It's about optical illusions and it's classed as Recreation / Leisure :mrgreen:
Hi Rapunzelina, This selection sounds most interesting! Thanks for contributing it to vol. 084. I'll PL as soon as possible.
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randyj wrote: July 7th, 2021, 12:17 pm I would like to record the chapter entitled "The Machine That Thinks" in the "Stories Of Inventors" volume.
Hi Randy, "The Machine That Thinks" is an excellent choice to read for the Short Nonfiction Collection! :D https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11368/11368-h/11368-h.htm#A_MACHINE_THAT_THINKS

From the pictures accompanying that chapter, the machine in question looks like a version of the linotype--fascinating to watch in action!
We look forward to hearing your selection when it's recorded!
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Grothmann wrote: July 3rd, 2021, 9:51 pm Good Evening Sue:

BUCK v. BELL, Superintendent of State Colony Epileptics and Feeble Minded.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 9:38

Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_buckvbell_supremecourt_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/274/200

Supreme Court decisions are usually so tedious as to be unreadable. But any tie the court declares that "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." I think it deserves a reading. I am just sorry they were not talking about politicians.

Thanks
Dale
Thanks for this reading, Dale! :D
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Grothmann wrote: July 3rd, 2021, 9:51 pm Good Evening Sue:

BUCK v. BELL, Superintendent of State Colony Epileptics and Feeble Minded.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 9:38

Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_buckvbell_supremecourt_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/274/200

Supreme Court decisions are usually so tedious as to be unreadable. But any tie the court declares that "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." I think it deserves a reading. I am just sorry they were not talking about politicians.

Thanks
Dale
Thanks for this reading, Dale... Whew... And apparently this law justifying eugenics is still on the books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell. Any quote, almost at random, from this 1927 decision, makes me cringe, for instance "The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes."

Dale, There's one place that I think definitely needs an edit. This is in paragraph 1, at 1:02, where you you say the name of the defendant, Carrie Buck, as "Carrie Black."
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ColleenMc wrote: July 4th, 2021, 11:26 am Here is one from me:

The American Indian in the Great War - George P. Donehoo (1862-1934)

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_americanindianingreatwar_donehoo_cm_128kb.mp3

10:37

Source: https://archive.org/details/sim_western-pennsylvania-history_1921-01_4_1/page/40/mode/2up

Couldn't find a Wikipedia entry for George Donehoo, but did find his grave, with biographic info in the note to confirm that he is the right one (buried in Pennsylvania, known as an author on Pennsylvania and Indian history) - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67266763/george-patterson-donehoo

Colleen
Thanks, Colleen, for this reading, which highlights the contributions of native American soldiers fighting under the U.S. flag in Europe in WWI. Until I listened to this selection, I did not realize that American Indians were not granted full U.S. citizenship until 1924! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act.

There was one comment by Donehoo which struck me as being clearly as relevant today as it was when he wrote his essay in 1921: "What [political] party has ever tried to place in its platform some bait to attract the vote of the American-Indian."

PL OK! :thumbs:
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Thanks! It jumped out at me as sort of topical given the surge of indigenous activism we are seeing currently around the residential schools issues and the appointment of the first ever Native American cabinet member in the Biden administration, so I thought it worth recording. Glad you enjoyed!

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Kazbek wrote: July 6th, 2021, 5:57 pm Title: A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India--Its Cause and Cure, with an Introduction by M. K. Gandhi
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7176/
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_letterhindu_tolstoy_kaz_128kb.mp3
Length: 43:47

Thanks,
Michael
Thanks, Michael, for reading Tolstoy's "A Letter to a Hindu," which influenced Gandhi's views on nonviolent resistance: "a debt Gandhi acknowledged in his autobiography, calling Tolstoy "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced" Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

PL OK! :thumbs:
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Hi Sue:

For some reason, my previous post doesn't show up here. I have made the correction and reloaded Buck v Bell.

This is considered, by some legal scholars, the worst Supreme Court decision in history (although this might be a stretch) Anyway, you are right, some of the language is "cringy"

Thanks
Dale
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Grothmann wrote: July 8th, 2021, 11:50 am Hi Sue:

For some reason, my previous post doesn't show up here. I have made the correction and reloaded Buck v Bell.

This is considered, by some legal scholars, the worst Supreme Court decision in history (although this might be a stretch) Anyway, you are right, some of the language is "cringy"

Thanks
Dale
Thanks, Dale, for the edit! :) As long as the file names are identical, the edited version supersedes the original in the MW, and I was able to check the file from there.
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Rapunzelina wrote: July 7th, 2021, 1:35 pm Short title: Spectropia

Full title: Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of Any Colour

Author: J. H. Brown (dates unknown, 19th century)

mp3 link: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_spectropia_brown_r_128kb.mp3

duration: 16:43

text link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63842

It's about optical illusions and it's classed as Recreation / Leisure :mrgreen:
Hi Rapunzelina, PL OK! :D Spectropia is a most engaging read! I wasn't sure what to expect after listening to you read the scientific description of the phenomena, but I followed the directions in the text to "see ghosts of any color" and... I did indeed see the ghosts! So, far I have viewed a red ghost (Plate IV, Green figure) and a blue ghost (Plate VI, Orange figure).
Since I was staring at these these images from the Gutenberg text on my computer screen, what I actually saw when I looked away (I looked at the ceiling) was, first, a dark square with little squares jutting out along the left side (my computer screen with icons), and then, in the middle of this square, the ghost! Fantastic!

Since we need to put the author, J.H. Brown into the LibriVox catalog, I set out to see if I could find any info about him. With a generic name like "Brown," I didn't have much hope, but I put his address into the search along with the name (Old Steyne, Brighton), and I came up with an 1869 guide to Brighton on Google. It seems that J.H. was a dentist, and he and a relative (C. Brown) had their surgery on Old Steyne Road. J.H. was the "honorary dentist" at a free clinic for the poor in Brighton (Brighton and Hove Dispensary, For Administering to the Sick Poor Advice and Medicine Gratis, and for Promoting Vaccination). https://books.google.com/books?id=cOgNAAAAQAAJ

This selection fits in nicely with your read about spectroscopes for SNF Vol. 072, "The Sunbeam and the Spectrascope (1863) https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-072-by-various/

Many thanks for this contribution to vol. 084!
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Ah, you remembered the spectrascope! That's so sweet! :D

I also tried to see the ghosts, from the screen of my smartphone, which is oblong, so after, when looking across the room on the wall, it looked as if the ghost was coming in from a ghost door on the wall! :mrgreen:

PS. Great hunting for the author! Interesting information!
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According to wikisource, J.H. Brown was Dr. John Henry Brown

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Henry_Brown (1836–1903)
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knotyouraveragejo wrote: July 8th, 2021, 3:52 pm According to wikisource, J.H. Brown was Dr. John Henry Brown

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Henry_Brown (1836–1903)
Thanks, Jo! :D
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david wales wrote: July 2nd, 2021, 12:22 pm
• This Troubled World (1938)

• Eleanor Roosevelt

seems awfully naive, in my humble opinion, but a good snapshot of Ms Roosevelt's thinking. Wish we had more like her, especially heading governments !
Hi David, Thought you'd like to know that this is the first time anything by Eleanor Roosevelt has been read for LibriVox! Unbelievable! Thanks again for your contribution to vol. 084! :)
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Thanks, Sue. Amazing we don't have more from Ms Roosevelt. 'preciate your thoughtfulness! :D
Peace, David
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