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Madam C. J. Walker invented a line of African American hair products and cosmetics that led her to become the first self-made female millionaire.

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton tried and failed to cross the coldest and windiest continent on Earth.

Life was good for Daniel until he grew up and saw his father for what he really was - a monster! The death of his girlfriend and family was more than Daniel Horwitz could take. The blame for his grief rested totally on his father, Frank Horwitz. It was time for him to pay for his crimes, and Daniel had devised a plan to collect.

This audiobook tells the story of Levi Strauss and the evolution of blue jeans.

The Boston Tea Party, by Matt Doeden, tells the story of a group of American Patriots who protested Great Britain's Tea Act. Going undercover during the night, the Patriots risked their lives to dump a shipment of British tea into Boston Harbor.

Imagine humanity on the brink of being totally annihilated due to the final World War. The shortage of life’s provisions has caused poverty to rise throughout the earth. Humankind is on the verge of vanishing. However, all wasn’t lost - a group of experts joined forces, organized and established through technology a means to completely eradicate poverty, and at the same time placed all humanity on a predetermined death date to control the population.

The Hoppers, celebrating 65 years in gospel music. From humble beginnings on a farm in North Carolina to New York City's famed Carnegie Hall to David's Citadel in Jerusalem. This family shares the stories of life, laughter, sorrow, and encouragement of a most uplifting journey. Regardless, this American family has established a Gospel music legacy. Enjoy this unabridged version of After All These Years.

1938, Hitler visita l'Italia. Uno storico dell'arte irlandese, trasferitosi da tempo a Roma, è costretto ad accompagnare Mussolini e il suo ospite per gallerie e musei. Tra il fascino e il disgusto, ha l'occasione di osservare da vicino i due tiranni e di chiedersi se possa sfruttare l'occasione per "occuparsi" di loro. Con profondo imbarazzo è costretto però a constatare che manca della tenacia necessaria per passare all'azione. Trent'anni dopo, sua figlia si imbatte in una foto scabrosa che ritrae il padre con i due dittatori.

Listening to great writing is a pleasure unto itself. Sometimes the opening paragraph of a work, or even the first sentence, makes it obvious that you are in the hands of a master, and once venturing a few furtive steps onto the path of prose, no matter what forest it enters, valley it descends, or mountain it scales, you will walk the entire distance.

Amid the political turmoil of the French Revolution, another revolution is taking place, an ambitious project to remeasure the Paris meridian, thus determining the precise distance from the North Pole to the equator in order to calculate a new base unit of length - the meter - establishing a rational system of measurement based on nature that will unite all people of all nations for all time.

In 1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to "do something" about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators.

Von Virginia Woolfs herzzerreißendem Abschiedsbrief an ihren Mann bis zum höchsteigenen Eierkuchen-Rezept von Queen Elizabeth II. an US-Präsident Eisenhower; von Gandhis Friedensersuch an Adolf Hitler bis zu Iggy Pops wundervollem Brief an einen jungen weiblichen Fan in Not, zelebriert und dokumentiert "Letters of Note" die Faszination der geschriebenen Korrespondenz mit all dem Humor, der Ernsthaftigkeit, der Traurigkeit und Verrücktheit, die unser Leben ausmachen. Prominente Autoren, Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler lassen die Briefe durch ihre Stimmen lebendig werden.

Check out the greats of comedy with their early routines when they were young and struggling.