COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 091 - jo

[gurleyda]

Hi Sue,
edits made to Evolution of the Starts Part 2
1) Changed the Journal name to “The scientific monthly”
2) Added ‘footnote’ ‘endfootnote’ at 8:50
3) 37726A replaced by 3726A at ~26:30
4) Replaced ‘Chi Carinae’ with ‘eta carinae’ ~9:50

Due to there being two parts now, I've changed the file name to have p1 or p2.

link to NEW uploaded file: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_evolutionstars_p2_campbell_dg_128kb.mp3
new length is 37min. 53sec

I mistakenly named this p1 at first and uploaded. So there are two extra versions that can be deleted.
the original 1)https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_evolutionstars_campbell_dg_128kb.mp3
and 2)https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_evolutionstars_p1_campbell_dg_128kb.mp3

Cheers,
Davo

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Davo, You did a great job with the edits! Thank you very much for giving me the timings on the changes!!! It made it a breeze for me to do the spot PLs and saved me a lot of time! I've put the new file name in the Magic Window.

PL OK!

[progressingamerica]

Hello Sue,

I would like to submit for this collection the party platform of the Bull Moose Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Birth_of_the_New_Party/pwaIAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA303

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_bullmooseprogressiveplatform_pa_128.mp3

33:27

One thing I tried to do with this is make effective use of empty space, so between one section (The Old Parties) and the next section (Covenant with the People) I tried to put 1.5 to 2 seconds in there. It seemed to sound pretty good to me that way.

[Sue Anderson]

Hello Sue,

I would like to submit for this collection the party platform of the Bull Moose Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Birth_of_the_New_Party/pwaIAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA303

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_bullmooseprogressiveplatform_pa_128.mp3

33:27

One thing I tried to do with this is make effective use of empty space, so between one section (The Old Parties) and the next section (Covenant with the People) I tried to put 1.5 to 2 seconds in there. It seemed to sound pretty good to me that way.

Hi progressingamerica, Thanks for this; it sounds interesting! Will PL as soon as possible.

[Sue Anderson]

Hello Sue,

I would like to submit for this collection the party platform of the Bull Moose Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Birth_of_the_New_Party/pwaIAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA303

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_bullmooseprogressiveplatform_pa_128.mp3

33:27

One thing I tried to do with this is make effective use of empty space, so between one section (The Old Parties) and the next section (Covenant with the People) I tried to put 1.5 to 2 seconds in there. It seemed to sound pretty good to me that way.

Hi progressingamerica, Thanks for this read of the 1912 platform of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party! The principles and reforms outlined have a very contemporary feel. As an exploration of the role of third parties in American politics, I should think this will find many listeners.

Per Wikipedia: "In the 1912 election, Roosevelt won 27.4% of the popular vote compared to Taft's 23.2%, making Roosevelt the only third party presidential nominee to finish with a higher share of the popular vote than a major party's presidential nominee. Both Taft and Roosevelt finished behind Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, who won 41.8% of the popular vote and the vast majority of the electoral vote." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)#:~:text=The%20Progressive%20Party%20

Your pacing and "effective use of empty space" was well done. You only made two slips which changed the meaning of the text and, therefore, will need a fix. They were:

page 318, Inheritance and Income Tax. at 27:58, Text reads "We believe in a graduated inheritance tax..." You said "income tax"

page 319, at 31:06, Civil Service. Text reads "his withdrawal of nominations from the Senate until political support for himself was secured..." You said "his support of nominations..."


(3/21/2022): another edit; on your file names please write "128kb" (not just 128); thanks.

[ktolber76]

Hello Sue,
I would like to submit History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Edmund G Ross; the Preface and Chapter 2. I thought it was a really tough read, and thereby challenging, but also very informative. And if I find another chapter (that isn't 120 minutes long) I would like to do another.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_impeachmentofandrewjohnson_ross_kt_128kb.mp3
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2442/2442-h/2442-h.htm
25:27
Ken Tolber

[Sue Anderson]

Hello Sue,
I would like to submit History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Edmund G Ross; the Preface and Chapter 2. I thought it was a really tough read, and thereby challenging, but also very informative. And if I find another chapter (that isn't 120 minutes long) I would like to do another.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_impeachmentofandrewjohnson_ross_kt_128kb.mp3
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2442/2442-h/2442-h.htm
25:27
Ken Tolber

Hi Ken, Many thanks for reading this chapter from Edmund G. Ross' important History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson!

from Wikipedia: "Edmund Gibson Ross (December 7, 1826 – May 8, 1907) was a politician who represented Kansas after the American Civil War and was later governor of the New Mexico Territory. His vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors" allowed Johnson to stay in office by the margin of one vote." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_G._Ross

I learned a lot of history from listening to this chapter! You read it very clearly, and, in particular, did a great job with Horace Maynard's immensely tangled sentence -- a 189 word encomium praising Mr. Johnson!

"From the time he [Andrew Johnson] rose in the Senate of the United States, where he then was, on the 17th day of December, 1860, and met the leaders of treason face to face, and denounced them there, and declared that the laws of the country must and should be enforced, for which he was hanged in a effigy in the City of Memphis, in his own State, by the hands of a negro slave, and burned in effigy, I know not in how many places throughout that portion of the country—from that time, on during the residue of that session of the Senate until he returned to Tennessee after the firing upon Fort Sumter, when he was mobbed in the City of Lynchburg, Virginia—on through the memorable canvass that followed in Tennessee, till he passed through Cumberland Gap on his way North to invoke the aid of the Government for his people—his position of determined and undying hostility to this rebellion that now ravages the land, has been so well known that it is a part of the household knowledge of many loyal families in the country." Horace Maynard

PL PK!

[ktolber76]

Hello Sue,
I would like to submit History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Edmund G Ross; the Preface and Chapter 2. I thought it was a really tough read, and thereby challenging, but also very informative. And if I find another chapter (that isn't 120 minutes long) I would like to do another.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_impeachmentofandrewjohnson_ross_kt_128kb.mp3
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2442/2442-h/2442-h.htm
25:27
Ken Tolber

Hi Ken, Many thanks for reading this chapter from Edmund G. Ross' important History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson!

from Wikipedia: "Edmund Gibson Ross (December 7, 1826 – May 8, 1907) was a politician who represented Kansas after the American Civil War and was later governor of the New Mexico Territory. His vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors" allowed Johnson to stay in office by the margin of one vote." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_G._Ross

I learned a lot of history from listening to this chapter! You read it very clearly, and, in particular, did a great job with Horace Maynard's immensely tangled sentence -- a 189 word encomium praising Mr. Johnson!

"From the time he [Andrew Johnson] rose in the Senate of the United States, where he then was, on the 17th day of December, 1860, and met the leaders of treason face to face, and denounced them there, and declared that the laws of the country must and should be enforced, for which he was hanged in a effigy in the City of Memphis, in his own State, by the hands of a negro slave, and burned in effigy, I know not in how many places throughout that portion of the country—from that time, on during the residue of that session of the Senate until he returned to Tennessee after the firing upon Fort Sumter, when he was mobbed in the City of Lynchburg, Virginia—on through the memorable canvass that followed in Tennessee, till he passed through Cumberland Gap on his way North to invoke the aid of the Government for his people—his position of determined and undying hostility to this rebellion that now ravages the land, has been so well known that it is a part of the household knowledge of many loyal families in the country." Horace Maynard

PL PK!

Thank you for the encouragement. This was a tough read but I learned a lot, too. Like the Union ticket had a Republican and a Democrat running together. That would never happen today. And the Union party was formed for the express purpose of eliminating slavery. How many people know that? Or have ever heard of the Union party? Or would have voted for a third party?! I tried to read it like a politician making a speech. BTW, why do they sound like that? Can't they just talk like normal people? Anyway, on to the next project!
Ken

[Rapunzelina]

Hi Sue, I hope you are well!

Here is an article from the Belfast monthly magazine, titled "The History of Haroun Al-Raschid" though I am not sure about the author.

text: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30072074

file: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_historyofalraschid_r_128kb.mp3

duration: 29:08

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Sue, I hope you are well!

Here is an article from the Belfast monthly magazine, titled "The History of Haroun Al-Raschid" though I am not sure about the author.

text: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30072074

file: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_historyofalraschid_r_128kb.mp3

duration: 29:08

Hi Rapunzelina, Many thanks for contributing this fascinating biography of Haroun Al-Raschid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid!

In my part of the world, the Midwest, USA, things are well. Today was one of our first warm spring days, and outside my house, along the edge of the woods, masses of tiny "snow drops," our first spring flowers, pushed up through the leaf litter. [for a picture of snow drops: https://www.brecks.com/product/Early_Snowdrops?]. It helps that snow drops are deer resistant, because we have several wild deer who live in the woods.

PL OK!

[Rapunzelina]

Thank you, Sue!

I love snow drops! They certainly bring the spring, together with the swallows

[Availle]

I would like to "claim" one section for

A Plea for Atheism
by Charles Bradlaugh (already in catalog)
https://archive.org/details/pleaforatheism55brad/

I just finished recording it, it's 1 hour 44 minutes long raw - but I did have some kitty interruptions, so I'm hopeful I can make the 74 minute cutoff.


Also: I'm sorry about the last collection, I did see your comment about the note in the beginning, and I wanted to include it, but then things got hectic and it slipped my mind...

[Sue Anderson]

I would like to "claim" one section for

A Plea for Atheism
by Charles Bradlaugh (already in catalog)
https://archive.org/details/pleaforatheism55brad/

I just finished recording it, it's 1 hour 44 minutes long raw - but I did have some kitty interruptions, so I'm hopeful I can make the 74 minute cutoff.


Also: I'm sorry about the last collection, I did see your comment about the note in the beginning, and I wanted to include it, but then things got hectic and it slipped my mind...

Availle, I consulted my cat Homer on this, and he said "kitty interruptions" couldn't possibly have taken up 30 minutes out of 104 minutes recording time! I looked at the text: 23 pages of small type; I couldn't read that much in 74 minutes, so I've saved you 2 spaces, so you can divide your reading into two less-than-60-minute parts if needed.

[Sue Anderson]

Here is my contribution to vol. 091:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_landscapepainting_durand_sa_128kb.mp3


Letters on Landscape Painting, Number 5
by Asher B. Durand
from The Crayon, Vol. 1, No. 10, March 7, 1855

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175001899270&view=1up&seq=156&skin=2021

This is my second reading from the 10 Letters on Landscape Painting, written by Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), one of the 19th century Hudson River School of Artists. My first reading was letter No. 3, which appeared in volume 088 of the SNF. https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-088-by-various/

For an example of Durand's painting: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10786

In Letter #5, Durand treats of two problems confronting the beginning landscape painter--how to represent complex objects such as trees and running water, and how to convey atmospheric perspective. Durand displays both technical expertise and a philosophical bent: "When you have acquired some proficiency...your next step should be the study of the influence of atmosphere--the power which defines and measures space--an intangible agent, visible, yet without that material substance which belongs to imitable objects, in fact, an absolute nothing, yet of mighty influence."

~~~~~ I am looking for a volunteer to proof listen my recording, since as the DPL of the SNF, I can't very well PL my own work.

[MaryinArkansas]

Here is my contribution to vol. 091:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf091_landscapepainting_durand_sa_128kb.mp3



~~~~~ I am looking for a volunteer to proof listen my recording, since as the DPL of the SNF, I can't very well PL my own work.

Sue, I'll be glad to DPL for you.