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GAread by Macropode · recorded August 14, 2006 · 0:16:16 · 11.7 MB
Cococrb2
The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a terrestrial species of giant hermit crab, and is also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest living terrestrial arthropod, with a weight up to 4.1 kg (9 lb). The distance from the tip of one leg to the tip of another can be as wide as 1 m (3 ft 3 in). It is found on islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as far east as the Gambier Islands, Pitcairn…
FAread by Cardboard Moose · recorded August 27, 2025 · 0:15:38 · 11.5 MB
Mother Solomon circa 1880
Margaret Grey Eyes Solomon (November 1816 – August 18, 1890), better known as Mother Solomon, was a Wyandot nanny and cultural activist. Solomon was born along Owl Creek in Marion County, Ohio, to a Wyandot chief father. In 1822, her family moved to the Big Spring Reservation in Wyandot County, where elders relayed oral tradition to her. She learned housekeeping and English at a mission school and began attending…
Cread by Mm35173 · recorded August 9, 2005 · 0:16:14 · 11.4 MB
Helen Gandy at her desk at Bureau headquarters in the Department of Justice…
Helen Wilburforce Gandy (April 8, 1897 – July 7, 1988) was the American longtime secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, who called her "indispensable". Serving in that role for 54 years she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the operations of the Bureau. Following Hoover's death in 1972, she spent weeks destroying his "Personal File," thought to contain the most…
FAread by UltraCobson · recorded August 14, 2026 · 0:57:34 · 40.1 MB
Brad Pitt-69858
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. In a film career spanning more than thirty-five years, Pitt has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Volpi Cup. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide.
Pitt first gained recognition as a…
Bread by UltraCobson · recorded August 13, 2026 · 0:18:40 · 13.0 MB
Chris Hansen
Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential Internet predators using a sting operation. When the segment's three-year run concluded, Hansen continued to host shows on other…
FAread by UltraCobson · recorded August 12, 2026 · 0:50:26 · 35.6 MB
Barack Obama and Gwen Stefani State Dinner performance (cropped) (cropped)
Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton ( stə-FAH-nee; née Stefani, formerly Rossdale; born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani rose to fame as a member and lead vocalist of the band No Doubt, whose hit singles include "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and "Don't Speak" from their studio album Tragic Kingdom (1995), as well as "Hey Baby" and "It's My Life" from later albums. During the…
Startread by OgerioOfficial · recorded May 16, 2020 · 0:15:39 · 10.8 MB
Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science A (also known as AP CompSci, AP CompSci A, AP CSA, AP Computer Science Applications, or AP Java) is an AP Computer Science course and examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for a college-level computer science course. AP Computer Science A is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester course in computer…
Cread by Clay2004 · recorded July 21, 2025 · 0:16:13 · 11.1 MB
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is a 2005 stealth action video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is the third game in the Sly Cooper series and the final to be developed by Sucker Punch Productions, as Sanzaru Games would develop later installments.
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves received generally positive reviews from critics and is considered…
Cread by Jmajeremy · recorded June 30, 2012 · 0:15:39 · 11.4 MB
Carte localisation Île de Montréal - Pointe-Claire
Pointe-Claire (/pɔɪnt ˈklɛə/, French pronunciation: [pwɛ̃t klɛʁ]) is a Quebec local municipality within the Urban agglomeration of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in Canada. It is entirely developed, and land use includes residential, light manufacturing, and retail. As of the 2021 census the population was 33,488.
Bread by Moulder · recorded May 21, 2006 · 0:16:11 · 12.6 MB
Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour
The Renaissance (UK: rin-AY-sənss, US: REN-ə-sahnss) was a European period of history and cultural movement taking place at the end of the Late Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern era. It is variously defined as covering the 15th and 16th centuries or, more broadly, as lasting from the 14th century to the 17th. It was characterized by the European rediscovery and revival of the literary…
Bread by Kungfuadam · recorded 2006 · 0:15:40 · 10.8 MB
Aztalan State Park is a state park in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States. Established in 1952, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The park covers 172 acres (70 ha) along the Crawfish River.
Aztalan is the site of an ancient Mississippian culture settlement that flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries. The indigenous…
FAread by Steinsky · recorded April 22, 2005 · 0:16:09 · 11.6 MB
Durdle Door natural arch
Dorset ( DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west. The largest settlement is Bournemouth.
The county has an area of 2,653 km2 (1,024…
FAread by PopularOutcast · recorded August 18, 2017 · 0:15:42 · 11.0 MB
Sign language BASL
Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf Black Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South. Like other schools at the time, schools for the deaf were segregated based upon race, creating two language communities among deaf signers…
Bread by Omaryak · recorded August 3, 2006 · 0:15:42 · 11.2 MB
Dapper with apps
Ubuntu ( uu-BUUN-too) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed primarily of free and open-source software. Developed by the British company Canonical and a community of contributors under a meritocratic governance model, Ubuntu is released in multiple official editions: Desktop, Server, and Core for IoT and robotic devices.
Ubuntu is published on a six-month release cycle, with long-term support (LTS)…
GAread by Peppage · recorded May 29, 2019 · 0:15:46 · 10.8 MB
Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for the first-person shooter video game Half-Life (1998). It was developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra On-Line. Blue Shift was the second expansion for Half-Life, originally intended as part of a Dreamcast port of Half-Life. Although the Dreamcast port was cancelled, the Windows version was released as a standalone product on June 12, 2001.
As with Gearbox's…
Cread by Scott Burley · recorded May 22, 2006 · 0:16:02 · 11.3 MB
Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890. The genre is commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
The frontier is depicted in…
Cread by Iceflow · recorded June 24, 2008 · 0:15:46 · 10.9 MB
The 1988 logo
S4C is a Welsh language free-to-air public broadcast television channel. Launched on 1 November 1982, it was the first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience. S4C's headquarters are based in Carmarthen, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David's creative and digital centre, Yr Egin. It also has regional offices in Caernarfon and Cardiff. As of 2024, S4C had an average of 118…
FAread by 0x0077BE · recorded November 29, 2014 · 0:16:02 · 11.6 MB
Seal of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992), is a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit applied American intellectual property law to the reverse engineering of computer software. Stemming from the publishing of several Sega Genesis games by video game publisher Accolade, which had disassembled Genesis software in order to publish games without being…
Cread by DivineMeaninglessness · recorded January 8, 2014 · 0:16:00 · 11.4 MB
Book map1
Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. The place of Mu in both pseudoscience and fantasy fiction is discussed in detail in Lost Continents (1954, 1970) by L. Sprague de…
FAread by Stepleton · recorded February 3, 2010 · 0:15:59 · 11.6 MB
StisI
GRB 970508 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected on May 8, 1997, at 21:42 UTC. It is historically important as the second GRB (after GRB 970228) with a detected afterglow at other wavelengths, the first to have a direct redshift measurement of the afterglow, and the first to be detected at radio wavelengths.
A gamma-ray burst is a highly luminous flash associated with an explosion in a distant galaxy and producing…
Startread by Filename99 · recorded August 5, 2026 · 0:05:51 · 4.0 MB
I.M. Meen is a 1995 fantasy educational game for DOS to teach grammar to children. It is named for its villain, Ignatius Mortimer Meen, a "diabolical librarian" who lures young readers into an enchanted labyrinth and imprisons them with monsters and magic.
The goal of the game is to escape the labyrinth and free other children. This is accomplished by "shooting spiders and similar monsters" and deciphering…
FAread by Hassocks5489 · recorded October 20, 2007 · 0:15:50 · 11.2 MB
Leek Town (blue shirts) in action against Marine in 2006
Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football. The team, nicknamed "The Blues", play their home games at Harrison Park.
The club was founded in 1946 and played in a variety of local leagues including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire League and Cheshire…
GAread by Evan Duggan · recorded May 21, 2020 · 0:15:59 · 11.3 MB
CapeHenry
The Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between a British squadron under Vice-admiral Mariot Arbuthnot and a French squadron under Admiral Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches. Destouches, based in Newport, Rhode Island, had sailed for the Chesapeake as part of a joint operation with the…
FAread by Cardboard Moose · recorded 2025 · 0:15:50 · 11.7 MB
The Apollo Theatre in 2012
On the evening of March 31, 2023, a tornado struck the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, which caused the ceiling to collapse during a sold-out concert, killing one person and injuring 48 more.
The show had begun despite predictions of imminent severe weather as part of a historic tornado outbreak. During the opening act, a half-hour storm break was instituted, during which the tornado struck the…
GAread by Bernstein2291 · recorded June 11, 2007 · 0:15:59 · 11.9 MB
The path of Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that had a long and complex meteorological history, spanning a month from August 8, to September 7, 2005. Katrina's origins can be traced to the mid-level remnants of Tropical Depression Ten, a tropical wave, and an upper tropospheric trough. The tropical depression emerged as a wave off West Africa on August 8, the second wave followed on August 11, while the…
