Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection by VARIOUS ( - ) Genre(s): *Non-fiction Read by: Colleen McMahon, InTheDesert, TriciaG, Greg Giordano, KevinS, Kazbek, Craig Campbell, Elias in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Excerpt from 'Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal' 00:13:18 - 02 - The Donation of Constantine 00:36:37 - 03 - Excerpts from 'An historical and geographical description of Formosa' 01:06:26 - 04 - Excerpt from 'Great astronomical discoveries' 01:54:24 - 05 - 'The Hidden King' from 'Famous Imposters' 02:15:51 - 06 - 'Mesmer' from 'Famous Impostors' 02:29:13 - 07 - An Architectural Monograph on a New England Village 02:49:25 - 08 - 'The Songs of Selma' from 'Poems of Ossian' 03:09:07 - 09 - 'The 1,000,000 Postage Stamp Hoax' from 'Frauds of America' 03:12:32 - 10 - Excerpts from 'Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, including the territory of Poyais' This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in.The 'Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal' is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness account, published in 1836 and purporting to reveal the horrors of life in a convent.The Donation of Constantine is a forged imperial decree, supposedly enacting a perpetual transfer of authority over the western part of the Roman Empire from the emperor to the Pope.George Psalmanazar, who passed himself off as a native of Formosa (Taiwan), wrote a fanciful book about the island, which made a splash in 18th-century London.The Great Moon Hoax was a series of fantastical descriptions of the moon, published in the 1830s by the New York newspaper The Sun, and falsely attributed to the famous astronomer Sir John Herschel.Bram Stoker tells the legend of Sebastian of Portugal, the 'Hidden King', and the story of Franz Mesmer, the purveyor of 'animal magnetism' from whose name the word 'mesmerize' is derived.'An Architectural Monograph on a New England Village' is a painstakingly documented and illustrated description of a village that never existed.James Macpherson presented the Poems of Ossian as a traditional epic cycle translated from Scottish Gaelic, but modern scholars believe that he largely wrote the poems himself.E. G. Redmond tells of a hoax involving postage stamps, the first of which was conceived by a stamp collector in Germany.'Sketch of the Mosquito Shore' was a glowing but false account of the Central American coast, in which one could buy land from the author. More information: https://librivox.org/frauds-forgeries-and-fake-news-collection-by-various/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

The Kipling Reader by Rudyard KIPLING (1868 - 1936) Genre(s): Anthologies Read by: Gemma L Myers, Kangaroo, Eleanor Howard, Dorothy Godfrey-Smith, Mary Ann Weathers, K.G.Cross, NoelBadrian, Larry Wilson, Elijah Fisher in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 23 - THE OVERLAND MAIL 00:02:37 - 24 - IN SPRING TIME These are selections of Kipling's writings; some poems, some fiction, some history but all by the master storyteller himself. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' -- William the Conqueror, Part I -- William the Conqueror, Part II -- Wee Willie Winkie -- A matter of fact -- Mowgli's brothers -- The lost legion -- Namgay Doola -- A germ-destroyer -- 'Tiger! Tiger!' -- Tods' amendment -- The story of Muhammad Din -- The finances of the gods -- Moti Guj, Mutineer. - Summary by Phil chenevert More information: http://librivox.org/the-kipling-reader-by-rudyard-kipling/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)