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Coffee Break Collection 022 - Days Gone By

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Read by Availle, Garth Burton, Colleen McMahon, BettyB, Craig Campbell, ChadH94, Anita Sloma-Martinez and Michele Fry · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Birth Time of the Gods Chapter 1 of Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods by Frank Rinder (10:41)
The Sad Story of a Boy King by George Cary Eggleston (8:12)
A Day at Strawberry Hill by Austin Dobson (11:43)
The Earliest Egyptian Remains by Charles Francis Horne (4:31)
The First Americans by Cotton Mather (2:38)
The First Saxon Settlement by Walter Besant (5:08)
The First Thanksgiving by Cotton Mather (2:29)
The Foundation of Rome by John Frost (5:15)
Fourteenth Century Prayers by Various (3:52)
Intellectual Life by William B. Forwood (4:08)
Marrying a God by Saxo Grammaticus (4:32)
Old Salem Shops by Eleanor Putnam (17:37)
The Poem in the Tomb of Antuf by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (4:55)
The Wandering Nations, (Chapter 2 of A Short History of Wales) by Owen M. Edwards (7:00)
Chapter 1 - The Wild West from The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham (10:17)