Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Insomnia downloads of the day


United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume three

This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 10 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1601 and 1960. Readings are of speeches originally given by Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, and by parliamentarians Edmund Burke, Herbert Asquith, Winston Churchill, Barbara Castle, Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot.  
If you enjoy it, try downloading vol one and two:
  1. Various. "United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection" · (readers)
  2. Various. "United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume two" · (readers)
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 more good stuff to bore you to sleep:

World as Will and Idea, The Volume 1 by Schopenhauer, Arth

or for reading the original version of the encyclopedia:
  1. Pliny the Elder. "Natural History Volume 1, The" · (readers)
  2. Pliny the Elder. "Natural History Volume 2, The" · (readers)
  3. Pliny the Elder. "Natural History Volume 3, The" · (readers)
I'm watching the new Sherlock on TV here, but aside from some similarities and character's names (Mycroft and Moriarty) and references, it has nothing to do with the original ones, nor are the characters very much similiar...well, anyway, you can download some of the original stories from  Librivox

  1. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir. "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The" · (readers)
  2. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir. "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The (version 2)" · (readers)

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