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Tag Archives: Audible.com
Before the invention of the Internet, “Yahoo” was the word used to describe a not very bright, brutish male totally without class. Imagine a group of these “yahoos” on horseback, stumbling into the unexplored wilderness, camping at night, anxious to kill buffalo, hoping to marry an Indian Princess, and you will understand the undisciplined group Continue Reading »
May 13, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, Applebooks.com, Audible.com, audiobooks, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Googlebooks.com, Headless Horseman, Hudson River, Internet, Listen 2 Read, Sleepy Hollow, St. Louis, Sunnyside, Tarrytown NY, Upstate New York, Washington Irving, Yahoo, “A Tour On The Praries”
During the pandemic of World War 1 in 1918, the last place you would want to be was in Germany, in a German Prison Camp behind German lines, where the flu pandemic broke out. Yet, that was exactly where James Norman Hall was. James Norman Hall is the author of my Listen2Read Audiobook “High Continue Reading »
April 6, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1918, American Adventure Library, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, Applebooks.com, Armistice, Audible.com, Audibooks.com, audiobook, Barnes and Noble.com, CDC, Coronavirus, flu, German Prison Camp, Googlebooks.com, Googlebooks.com Scribed.com, Hoopla, I-Tunes.com, James Norman Hall, Lafayette Flying Corp. US Air Force, Listen2Read, Nieuport Type 128 bi- plane, Overdrive, pandemic, Prisoner of War, Scribed.com, Tunein.com, World War 1, Youtube, “High Adventure”
THEODORE ROOSEVELT LOVED PLAYING SANTA CLAUS Sometimes at Christmas, a special Santa Claus would visit the children of the Cove Neck school on Oyster Bay, New York, giving out presents and then joining them to sing. This was no ordinary Santa; it was Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. A family man, Roosevelt loved Continue Reading »
December 20, 2019, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, Apple Books, Archie Roosevelt, Audible.com, Audiobooks.com, Bibliotheca, Candido Rondon, Chief Forester, Christmas, Christmas tree, Folliett, Gifford Pinchot, Google Play, i-Tunes, Listen 2 Read audiobooks, NOOK Audiobooks, Overdrive, Playstar, River of Doubt, Santa Claus, Scribed, Theodore Roosevelt, Through The Brazilian Wilderness, Tune-in, White House, White House Christmas Tree
Before 1908, other than Santa Claus, no human being had reached the North Pole, although many had tried and failed. Some had unfortunately died for their efforts. In the year 1908, two serious contenders were preparing for victory over nature. One was a respected medical Doctor and explorer with very little financial support and no friends Continue Reading »
December 15, 2018, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1907 Christmas, 1908, Admiral Robert E. Peary, Amazon.com, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, AppleBooks, Audible.com, audiobook, Barnes and Noble, Belgica, Christmas, Discovery of North Pole, Eskimo, Explorers, GooglePlay.com, Greenland, I-Tunes.com, Inuit, Listen to Read, National Geographic Society, New York Times, North Pole, Santa Claus, Scribed.com, Tune-in.com, USS Theodore Roosevelt, “My Attainment of the Pole”
Two major storms in different parts of the United States changed the mindset of Writer and Activist for Native Americans Charles Fletcher Lummis. The First Storm On February 4, 1884, a heavy rain began to fall on Chillicothe, Ohio, where Charles Fletcher Lummis lived and worked as an editor of the weekly newspaper, the Chillicothe Leader. Continue Reading »
October 4, 2018, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Activist for Native Americans, Alameda Street, Andre Stojka, Atchison, Audible.com, audiobooks, Cajon Pass, California, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Chillicothe Leader, Chillicothe Ohio Storm 1884, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway, Cleveland, Colorado, Columbus, Dagget, El Nino, El Rancho hacienda, GooglePlay.com, Great American Desert, Harriso Gray Otis, I-Tunes.com, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, Los Angeles, Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Times, Malaria, Mission San Gabriel, Mojave Desert, mosquito, New Mexico Pueblos, Pio Pico, San Bernardino Mountains, Scioto River, Scribed.com, Southwest Museum, Tiwa family, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Tune-in.com, Whittier, “A Tramp Across the Continent”
Donald Trump’s re-examination of Bears Ears Monument in Utah, covered by the Antiquities Act, reminded me why the Antiquities Act had been created in the first place in 1903. THE HOMESTEAD ACT Before there was an Antiquities Act, there was a Federal Homestead Act of 1862, where the Federal Government Continue Reading »
July 6, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, Antiquities Act, Arizona; Devils tower, Arizona; Pinnacles, Audible.com, Bears Ears Monument, California, California and also Mesa Verde in Colorado. Sierra Club, Charlie Leadig, Donald Trump, Federal Government, Glacier Point Camp, Grand Canyon, Idaho, John Muir Exhibit, Lightning Trail, Listen To Read Audiobooks, Listen2Read.com, Mariposa Grove, Montana, New Mexico; Tonto Cliff Dwellings, President Abraham Lincoln, Raymond California, Stickeen, The Homestead Act, The Yosemite Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Utah, Wawona Hotel, Wyoming, Wyoming; Gila Cliff Dwellings, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite Valley
Here was the dilemma: Which of these two stunningly beautiful, one of a kind, world class, historically priceless, irreplaceable, works of nature should the US government totally sacrifice, obliterate and destroy, so no future generations would ever see it? Choose one: A or B? “A” is the stunningly beautiful Steamboat Rock in the Echo Park district Continue Reading »
May 9, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1869, Andre Stojka, Arizona, Audible.com, audiobooks, Colorado River, David R. Brower, Dinosaur National Monument, Echo Park, Glen Canyon, Hoover Dam, John Wesley Powell, Lake Meade, Lake Powell, Las Vegas, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Nevada, Phoenix Los Angeles, Sierra Club, Sierra Magazine, Southwest United States, Steamboat Rock, US Government, Utah, Vermillion Cliffs, “The Exploration of the Colorado River and It’s Canyons”
One hundred years ago, in 1917, a secret coded radio transmission from a German transmitter was intercepted by British Intelligence. Great Britain was already at war with Germany. Despite the loss of American lives on the Lusitania, United States President Woodrow Wilson was struggling to keep America out of World War I. Continue Reading »
March 22, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1917, Admiralty Old Building, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, Arizona, Arthur Zimmerman, Audible.com, audiobooks, British Intelligence, Cryptographers, decode, England, Erich von Eckardt, France, German, German Ambassador to Mexico. German Torpedo Boats, German secret code, German U-Boat, Great Britain, Handelsschiffsverkehrsbuch, Irving Berlin, James Norman Hall, Lafayette Escadrill, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, Lusitania, New Mexico, nineteen seventeen, President Woodrow Wilson, Room 40, submarine, Texas, Theodore Roosevelt, transmitter, United States Ambassador James W. Gerard, Venustiano Carranza, war, Western Front, Whitehall, World War One, “High Adventure”, “Mutiny On The Bounty”, “Over There”
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