Holiday History

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    • Holiday Histories
    • By: Sally Lee
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Young listeners learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Valentine's Day....

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    • The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
    • By: Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
    • Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between....

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    • Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics
    • By: Ace Collins
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Ace Collins exposes the stories behind the greatest secular hit songs of Christmas---who wrote them, how they became famous, and why they still have such a strong impact on Christmas....

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    • Fact vs. Fiction in U.S. History
    • By: Peter Mavrikis
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Every November, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving Day. But what actually happened at the first Thanksgiving? And when did it happen? Discover the facts and find out the fiction surrounding one of America’s favorite holidays.

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    • By: Lucy Foley
    • Narrated by: Emma Gregory
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Constantinople, 1921. Each day Nur gazes across the waters of the Bosphorus to her childhood home, a grand white house, nestled on the opposite bank....

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    • The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
    • By: Donald Clarke
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues....

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    • What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
    • By: Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke....

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    • How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
    • By: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Narrated by: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From portable cameras to postcards and suntans, Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for home....

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    • the perfect page-turning holiday read for 2021
    • By: Olivia Hayfield
    • Narrated by: Jess Nesling
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Following the scandalous revelations about his love life, disgraced media mogul Harry Rose is searching for redemption....

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    • How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened
    • By: Steve Kozak
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact....

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    • By: Joyce Carol Oates
    • Narrated by: Andi Arndt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society.

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    • 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
    • By: Abigail Pogrebin, A.J. Jacobs - foreword
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism....

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    • A Pink Carnation Christmas
    • By: Lauren Willig
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Series: Pink Carnation, Book 6.5
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby....

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    • By: Sally Lee
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Young listeners learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Christmas....

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    • Christmas Traditions Explained
    • By: Michael P. Foley
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2022
    • Language: English
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    • From the famed author of international bestseller Drinking with the Saints, every Christmas tradition explained and celebrated, as well as a glimpse into all the sometimes macabre and always fascinating nooks and crannies of the holiday. Deepen your knowledge of and love for Christmas....

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    • History Smashers
    • By: Kate Messner
    • Narrated by: Annette Amelia Oliveira
    • Series: History Smashers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and made friends with Wampanoag people who gave them corn. RIGHT? WRONG! It was months before the Pilgrims met any Wampanoag people, and nobody gave anybody corn that day....

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    • By: William Holiday
    • Narrated by: Lyle Holiday
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • "JFK Assassination—What They Told Me" unveils a treasury of knowledge crafted by William Holiday, a dedicated educator with a passion for unraveling the truths behind the JFK assassination.

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    • The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday's Traditions
    • By: Brian Earl
    • Narrated by: Brian Earl
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions reveals the surprising, quirky, mysterious, and sometimes horrifying stories behind the most wonderful time of the year....

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    • By: Sally Lee
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Young listeners learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Halloween....

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