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Christmas Carol Charles Dickens full audiobook online

 A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843 The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scroogeand his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Carol singing took a new lease on life during this time. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.

A Christmas Carol remains popular—having never been out of print—and has been adapted many times to film, stage, opera, and other media.(from Wiki)

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Top 10 Most Haunted Places

Whether you're a believer or not, America's towns are filled with spooky stories passed down through time. From haunted fortresses to grisly tales of suffering and death, we've pull together a list of some of the spookiest spots in the US.

Moundsville Penitentiary

During its more than 100 years in operation, the Moundsville Penitentiary in West Virginia was one of America's most violent correctional facilities and the final stop for almost 1,000 criminals. The prisoners lived in cramped quarters, which led to riots. Many men were hanged or killed in the electric chair, while others were murdered by other prisoners. The prison closed in 1995, but according to some, the tortured spirits are still behind bars and in the bowels of the prison and may be seen or heard on a tour.

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

 Once known as the Weston State Hospital, this asylum was home to thousands of people with mental illness, starting in 1864. Hundreds of people died here before the facility closed in 1994. The spirits that are said to haunt the site today date back to the Civil War era, when the asylum's grounds served as a military post. Paranormal tours of the facility feature 2-hour visits to the asylum's 4 main hot spots. The more intense Ghost Hunt is an 8-hour, overnight paranormal adventure with experienced ghost-hunting guides.

Villisca Axe Murder House

 On June 10, 1912, the old white frame house at 508 E Second St became a grisly crime scene. The heinous murder of Josiah B. Moore, his wife, their 4 children and 2 young girls who were overnight guests rocked the small town of Villisca, IA, and the murderer was never identified. Over the years, residents of the home reported visions of a man with an ax, children crying and unexplained paranormal activity. In 1994, the home was restored to its original condition with no indoor plumbing or electricity. These touches add to the chilling ambience during a lamplight tour from April through November or an overnight experience available by reservation for groups.

Sammie Dean

 Jerome, AZ, is a former copper-mining town with a paranormal reputation that dates back to the Wild West. The town is now home to just 400 residents (down from 15,000 in its heyday), but legend has it there are plenty more ghostly residents from the days of mining accidents and gunfights. One well-known spirit is the working girl Sammie Dean, a prostitute who was strangled by a customer in the old Crib District. Her beautiful spirit roams the alleys looking for her killer, who was never found.

Cuban Club

 

Cuban Club, also known as Circulo Cubano de Tampa, can be found in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood. In 1917, this spot was a popular hangout for Cuban immigrants who enjoyed the ballroom, outdoor band shell and cantina with a stage and dance floor. Today, the compound, which is protected by the National Historic Register, hosts concerts and special events and is the setting for many ghost stories about spirits playing the piano and riding the elevators.

Fort Mifflin

 Built in 1771, Fort Mifflin is the country's only Revolutionary War battlefield that is still intact. There are 14 restored buildings on the grounds on the Delaware River and reportedly plenty of spirits from the past. Among the ghosts said to haunt the fort is a screaming woman whose cries are so loud that the Philadelphia police have been called to investigate, only to find no one there. Other characters in the local ghost stories include a faceless man wandering around the fort, a tour guide dressed in revolutionary garb and numerous children and dogs.

Moon River Brewery

 The Moon River Brewery brought its beloved beers to Savannah in 1999, but the building is one of the oldest in town, dating back to 1821. In its original incarnation, it was the City Hotel, a high-end hotel with a history of violence during the Civil War. Men were killed in the hotel during heated skirmishes, including a Yankee who was beaten to death by locals in 1860. Some bar patrons today say they've seen bottles mysteriously fly through the air and have witnessed guests being pushed, touched and even slapped by unseen forces. One resident apparition, Toby, is said to skulk around the billiards room looking for the next great bar brawl.

The Sultan's Palace

The house at 716 Dauphine St is a classic French Quarter beauty with classic wrought-iron balconies and a large courtyard. But in the 1800s, this residence was a house of horrors for the Sultan, a wealthy man with a depraved lifestyle, multiple wives and children, and a harem of women and young boys held against their will. Neighbors complained about the mysterious habits of this man who had a predilection for partying, opium and torture. But the greatest mystery in the house was the Sultan's demise, when he was buried alive in the courtyard after his family and harem were hacked to pieces in a bloodbath by an unknown perpetrator. Today, his angry spirit is thought to be responsible for the unusual noises, loud music and strong incense smells that waft from the home, as well as unwelcome advances on past female residents who swear the Sultan is still up to his old tricks of groping female visitors.

Calcasieu Courthouse

 Toni Jo Henry has been the talk of the small town of Lake Charles since the 1940s, when she killed a man in cold blood. Just as notorious were her stunning good looks. The former prostitute charmed a gentleman in a pickup truck to give her a ride while she was walking the highway with a friend en route to spring her true love from a Texas prison. It took 3 trials for a jury to convict the wily Toni Jo, who had charmed the courtroom and jail staff and divided the town over her presumed guilt. In 1942, this murderous beauty known as Tiger Girl was the first woman in the state to die in the electric chair. Her spirit lingers in the courthouse today, and workers there swear they feel her presence, hear her screams and even smell her burning hair. Many believe that she tinkers with office equipment, locks doors and meddles with everyday office life at the courthouse.

Eastern State Penitentiary

The Eastern State Penitentiary might be the creepiest place in all of Philly. The former prison was the first of its kind, thanks to its large size and substantial budget.
Directed by Quaker beliefs, it had infamously strict rules, which encouraged isolation and punishment. Prison guards took to hooding inmates whenever they ventured outside their cells, and the only source of light was a skylight, which was believed to bring the prisoners “the light of God.”
Tortured spirits, including “Slick Willie” Sutton, continue to relentlessly haunt the grounds today.

From: http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/top-10-most-haunted-places

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The novel begins as journalist Mikael Blomkvist attempts to exit through a crowd of eager reporters after his conviction for the libel and defamation of financier Hans-Erik Wennerström. Devastated by the verdict, Blomkvist retreats to a café and ponders his conviction. He anticipates three months in prison, but he worries more about the fate of his political magazine, Millennium. After thinking the matter over, he meets with Erika Berger, Millennium’s editor-in-chief and Blomkvist’s lover, and announces his intention to leave the magazine. In the meantime, Lisbeth Salander, an unorthodox young woman with piercings and tattoos who works for Milton Security’s private investigation division, attends a meeting with her boss, Dragan Armansky, and the lawyer Dirch Frode. Frode wishes to hire Blomkvist on behalf of Henrik Vanger, a wealthy industrialist and head of Vanger companies. Salander has compiled a report on Blomkvist and Frode wants to know the findings. Satisfied, he encourages Salander to continue her search into the Wennerström affair and calls Blomkvist to offer him the job.

Salander continues her research as requested and purchases an electronic cuff that will allow her to monitor Wennerström’s computer while Blomkvist considers the job offer. Burdened by concern forMillennium and his own career, Blomkvist agrees to meet Henrik on December 26th to hear the details. Henrik explains his family history and then, at length, presents the job offer: He wants Blomkvist to write a history of the Vanger family as pretext for solving the murder of Henrik’s great-niece, Harriet, who disappeared in 1966. Despite his interest in the mystery, Blomkvist feels reluctant to take the job since he has more important things to worry about. Henrik sweetens the pot, however, promising to give Blomkvist devastating information about Wennerström upon Blomkvist’s completing the job. As Millenniumcontinues to lose advertising revenue, Blomkvist finally decides to take the offer as a way to repair the damage to his career.

Blomkvist makes the best of his situation in Hedeby, the small island where the Vanger family resides, and attempts to decipher five mysterious names and numbers in Harriet’s date book. Henrik also introduces him to the other members of the Vanger family. Meanwhile, Salander encounters a problem when her guardian, Holger Palmgren, becomes critically ill. The new guardian appointed for Salander, Nils Bjurman, threatens to control her finances, treats her with contempt, and forces her to perform oral sex on him. Furious, Salander decides to blackmail him and records their next encounter. The encounter doesn’t go as planned and Bjurman brutally rapes Salander. A week after the rape she returns to his home, handcuffs him to the bed, and tortures him while she threatens to publicize the recording of her rape. Ultimately she extracts Bjurman’s promise that he will permit her access to her finances and work to have her declared legally competent. Satisfied, she tattoos a reminder of his perversion on his abdomen and then leaves. She is surprised when she gets news that she is no longer needed to do research on the Wennerström affair.

Thanks to a helpful hint from his daughter, Pernilla, Blomkvist learns that the names and numbers in Harriet’s date book refer to Bible verses, not phone numbers. Desperate to solve the mystery, he asks Frode for another researcher, and Frode recommends Salander. After Blomkvist reads Salander’s report on him and discovers that she hacked into his computer, he visits her at home and begs for her help on the case. A wary, startled Salander complies and eventually the two discover that the names and numbers in Harriet’s date book reference a series of gruesome serial killings. As they research and grow intimate, an unidentified assailant fires shots at Blomkvist and leaves a dismembered stray cat on the porch. Convinced that the assaults confirm they’re close to a solution, Blomkvist tries to track down photographs of the Children’s Day parade from the day of Harriet’s disappearance. In the photos, Harriet is clearly dismayed, and Blomkvist hopes to discover who is causing her such distress. Salander departs for the Vanger family archives to make sense of small discrepancies in the serial killings, and Blomkvist finally finds his smoking gun: a photograph of Martin Vanger, Harriet’s brother, from the Children’s Day parade in 1966.

At the climax of the novel, Blomkvist goes to Martin’s cabin to confront him. Martin, prepared for his arrival, escorts him at gunpoint to a makeshift dungeon in the basement. Martin beats Blomkvist and then admits that both he and his father share responsibility for the killings and that they tried to induct Harriet into the murderous tradition as well. To Blomkvist’s surprise, however, Martin disavows any knowledge of what happened to Harriet and attempts to suffocate Blomkvist. Salander bursts in just in time and beats Martin severely with a golf club. He escapes as she frees Blomkvist from his bindings. Hurriedly Salander gives chase, but a desperate Martin drives his vehicle into the oncoming lane and dies in a fiery car accident. The next day, Salander, Blomkvist, and Frode agree that they will not notify the police about the murders. Putting together all the pieces, Blomkvist realizes that Harriet is not actually dead. He contacts her, and she shares her part of the story and reunites with Henrik. Later, when Frode informs Blomkvist that Henrik no longer wants to write the book and cannot offer any useful information on Wennerström—Blomkvist’s whole reason for undertaking the project—Blomkvist falls into despair. At that point, Salander offers up the information she’s collected about Wennerström’s corrupt financial dealings.

As the novel ends, Blomkvist writes an expose about the Wennerström affair that upends the financial world, restores his credibility, and reestablishes Millennium’s security. Salander assumes a fake identity and drains several of Wennerström’s accounts in order to secure financial independence in the future. Later, thanks to a tip from Salander, Wennerström resurfaces dead in a hotel room in Spain. Though Salander finally acknowledges her feelings for Blomkvist and prepares to confess them on Christmas, she finds him out with Millennium’s editor-in-chief, Erika Berger. Her decision to walk away from the situation indicates a lack of closure between the two of them despite their successful solving of the case.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook

This article is about the book series. For the television series, see Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series).

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Cover of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator	Sydney Paget
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Sherlock Holmes
Genre	Detective fiction short stories
Publisher	George Newnes
Publication date	1894[1]
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	viii, 279 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Followed by	The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."

It's a Washington Irving quote. Christmas is coming and the end of year soon. The final days of year is always the feeling want to reunion with your family. Winter is the coldest season of year, the cold is motivation to humanity react. Do you hear the jingle bell?