Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some

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Now, let's read and relax. Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go. We go.

Tonight we're continuing with a work that I haven't read from in some while, but which I really

love.

A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells

First published in 1922 by the Macmillanin Company, New York. Let's pick up right where we left off in Chapter 20.

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