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What happens when a tortoise challenges a hare to a race? Listen to this popular West African tale to find out. There's more than one way to teach a boastful hare a lesson!

This hour-long ambient recording captures the magical awakening of bird-life at daybreak in the British countryside. No announcements interrupt the sequence, selected and compiled from the collections of the Sound Archive at the British Library. This is the perfect chance to immerse yourself in the uplifting sounds of a perfect country morning from the comfort of your own home.

Un brillante escritor de repercusión mundial. Escritor y etnólogo peruano, renovador de la literatura de inspiración indigenista y uno de los más destacados narradores de su país del siglo XX, su prosa directa y vigorosa buscó con afán denunciar las eternas desigualdades entre el indígena y los terratenientes, dueños de una labor opresora y abusiva que él consideraba "intolerable".

Fue un maravilloso escritor español de la llamada Generación del 98, hermano del pintor y escritor Ricardo Baroja, tío del antropólogo Julio Caro Baroja, y del director y guionista de cine Pío Caro Baroja.

Fue una terrible lucha armada librada entre el gobierno mexicano y la Iglesia Católica entre 1926 y 1929. Durante esta, se produjeron severos enfrentamientos entre el gobierno de los presidentes Plutarco Elías Calles, y el de su sucesor, Emilio Portes Gil, contra numerosos grupos de laicos, presbíteros y religiosos, contrarios a las políticas que buscaban restringir la autonomía eclesiástica.

Presidente de Chile en 1970, Allende se mantiene como uno de los personajes más controvertido de la historia de Chile. Las circunstancias de su muerte lo convirtieron en un símbolo para la izquierda a nivel internacional, aunque muchos objetan su figura y legado al considerarlo responsable de una de las crisis más graves de la historia chilena.

Ride with legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie as he helps out a small town with a big problem: someone has brutally murdered the local banker and made off with $40,000. It appears to be the work of a criminal who knows his way around town.

José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, mejor conocido por su seudónimo Francisco Villa o el hipocorístico de éste, Pancho Villa, fue uno de los más notables jefes de la revolución mexicana, cuya actuación militar fue decisiva para la derrota del régimen del entonces presidente Victoriano Huerta.

Seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the Minnesota woods with his father on a cold afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter mile apart, they wait for white-tailed deer. The muffled crack of a gunshot rings out. Jesse races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. Haunted by the ghost of his father, Jesse confronts family secrets, questions of justice and retribution, and the nature of his own responsibility.

Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, su verdadero nombre, fue un extraordinario poeta y militante comunista chileno, considerado con justicia entre los mejores y más influyentes de su siglo, siendo incluso llamado por el novelista Gabriel García Márquez "el más grande poeta del siglo XX en cualquier idioma".

At a school-supervised event, Joseph Frederick held up a banner with the message "Bong Hits 4 Jesus", a slang reference to marijuana smoking. Principal Deborah Morse took away the banner and suspended Frederick for 10 days. She justified her actions by citing the school's policy against the display of material that promotes the use of illegal drugs. Frederick sued under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the federal civil rights statute, alleging a violation of his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

In May 1607, English settlers stepped off their ship in North America. They were about to start the first permanent English settlement in North America. They endured many hardships and made many tough choices in the new land. Now the choices are yours. Would you rather suffer from intestinal problems after becoming infected with dysentery or have bleeding gums after getting scurvy? Would you want to work as a blacksmith or tend the tobacco fields?

Abiertamente homosexual, Truman Capote es considerado uno de los narradores más grandes de los Estados Unidos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Autor de la célebre novela "A sangre fría", su figura irreverente y frontal escandalizó al país.

This Christmas comedy collection contains six classic radio programs from the '30s, '40s, and '50s.

A practical, set-by-step guide to setting attainable goals that will help you reach your peak potential.

Here are 28 of the best-loved children's stories from around the world.

The practice of Surya Namaskara, or Sun Salutations, has been handed down for thousands of years by the enlightened sages of the Vedic yogic tradition. It is considered to be a complete sadana, or practice, unto itself, as it incorporates all the aspects of a wellrounded practice: asanas, balancing of pranic or vital energy through use of breath, also known as pranayama, and meditation.

During a long, hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft - a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year's income for the recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire.

A boy searches for his archaeologist father, who has gone missing. With the help of some unusual family friends, Matt Stribling discovers that his father had been searching for an ancient code, one rumored to have brought down the Mayans, and maybe even the fabled civilization of Atlantis. Now in the hands of a madman using high-tech computers to decipher it, the code is being readied for new and sinister uses.

It’s been six months since Fortuna colony was established on a moon in a distant solar system. The aliens who invited the colonists here have never shown themselves, but they’ve provided everything the human settlers need to thrive. However, after several people vanish without a trace, the colony leaders decide it’s time to leave. But before they do, the aliens provide a final delicious meal for their human guests.