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Let's Pretend actually went under a different title and slight variations of formats before settling down to the now-familiar children's program heard today through surviving recordings. On October 27, 1928, a Saturday morning children's program offering whimsical tales of fantasy and fairy tales premiered under the title of Aunt Jymmie and Her Tots in Tottyville. Very little is known about this program except for the format. The hostess of the series (Aunt Jymmie) would introduce each week's drama to the juvenile audience, which would be enacted by a cast of young children known as "the...

Things weren't looking good for the Dixie High Flyers of St. George, Utah.

Midway through the season, the boys' football team had lost four of six games and, facing the best team in the region, was expected to lose once again.

Then, over the span of one weekend, a miraculous change occurred within the team-and the Flyers started winning.

Comprised of average-sized boys with good but not great football skills, the team's astonishing transformation had little to do with bulking up, practicing harder, or suddenly passing better or running faster. Instead, it had everything to do with...

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of short stories by Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is his most famous collection apart from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, though one of the stories is implied to be about the famous detective, even though it is never explicitly stated.

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The Poison Belt is the second story, a Novella, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to follow Professor Challenger, first introduced in The Lost World. Published in 1913, mostly takes place in Sussex, contradictory to The Lost World, which takes place much in South America. The Poison Belt follows Challenger in a new adventure as he believes Earth is about to pass through a poisonous belt of gas in space.

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The Hound of Baskervilles, is the third detective novel to feature Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Like the previous completions, it originally appeared in The Strand Magazine, however this novel was serialized and is one story, unlike The Adventures and The Memoirs. The story is mostly set in England's West countryside as Holmes investigates a mysterious supernatural hound.

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The Lost World is the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot follows an expedition to an Amazonian plateau where it is discovered prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, still exist. The expedition is routed by indigenous people and a race of apelike people where they encounter a war between the two.

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The Sign of Four, is the second novel by Doyle to feature the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1888 the plot revolves around complexities involving the Indian Rebellion and a stolen treasure. It marks the use of drugs by Holmes as a way to humanize him as well as introduce Watson's future wife Mary Morstan.

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The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 critique by the author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the human rights abuses committed by Leopold II, king of the Belgians in the Congo free state. The book is an expose on the situation labeled a "rubber regime" by Doyle. He points out the abuses occurring to the indigenous people by the European traders in the rubber industry and the private land of Leopold II of Blegium. The book was heralded as, "the most powerful indictment yet launched against the Belgian rulers of this bloodstained colony."

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The Prose Edda

Also Called

Snorre's Edda, Or The Younger Edda

by Snorri Sturluson

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or simply Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century. Together with the Poetic Edda, it comprises the major store of Scandinavian mythology. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220.

It begins with a euhemerized Prologue, a section on the Norse cosmogony, pantheon and...