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I have a podcast recommendation for you today.

If you want to learn about fascinating moments in history in the most relaxing way possible,

then try the new podcast, Calm History.

Each episode is narrated in a calm voice to help you relax. Then try the new podcast, Calm History.

Each episode is narrated in a calm voice to help you relax or fall asleep.

You'll learn about famous explorers, leaders, inventions, civilizations, and ancient wonders.

There's even a six-part series about the Titanic. Just search your podcast player

for Calm History or use the link in the episode notes.

Tonight, I will be reading another story from the book The Amateur Craxman by E.W. Hornung. A costume piece.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

London was just then talking of one whose name is already a story. London was just then talking of one whose name is already a name and nothing more.

Ruben Rosenthal had made his money on the diamond fields of South Africa and had come

home to enjoy them, according to his lights.

How he went to work will scarcely be forgotten by any reader of the half-penny evening

papers, which reveled in the endless anecdotes of his original indigence and present

prodigality, varied with interesting particulars of the extraordinary establishment which

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