How Could This Happen to Annie Leibovitz? The $24 million question.

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Length: 54:27
Speed: 120WPM

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I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. Audio Podcast

"I Have A Dream" is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites, among others, would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in human history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.[1] According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized . By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."[2]

-- Wikipedia

Contains the original audio of the speech.

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Length: 16:25
Size: 15.0 MB

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Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs (Our house is burning and we look elsewhere) by Jacques Chirac Audio Podcast

Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs (Our house is burning and we look elsewhere) by Jacques Chirac

"Our house is burning and we look elsewhere" is a short sentence that said the President of France Jacques Chirac in his speech made before the plenary of the Third Summit of the Earth on 2 September 2002 in Johannesburg, Africa South, and which is now taken to describe this speech. With particular reference to global warming, the statement by the Head of State made french both the fact of the destruction of Nature and the critique of the indifference of the inhabitants of the Earth facing the disaster that would yet to the test and risk the entire human species. According to commentators, who appreciated the intentions of the speaker, but also regretted his awareness late, it was only followed by very little effect of the latter, its audience and its targets, and constitutes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

-- Google-translated French Wikipedia

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English

Length: 8:07
Size: 20.5 MB
Speed: 110 WPM

Speech from: Présidence de la République


French

Length: 8:42
Size: 22.0 MB
Speed: 110 WPM

Speech from: Présidence de la République

Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill Audio Podcast

The This was their finest hour speech was delivered by Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940. It was given shortly after he took over as Prime Minister of Britain on 10 May, in the first year of World War II.

-- Wikipedia

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Length: 6:08
Size: 1.8Mb

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Quit India speech by Mahatma Gandhi Audio Podcast

Quit India speech by Mahatma Gandhi

The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement is best described by his call to Do or Die. His speech was issued at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay, since re-named August Kranti Maidan (August Revolution Ground). However, almost the entire Congress leadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty-four hours after Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders were to spend the rest of the war in jail.

-- Wikipedia

Includes a text file containing the whole speech and a wav file voiced by a robot.

Length: 8:22
Speed: 110W words per minute

BitTorrent: http://www.mininova.org/get/2850578

Speech from: Wikipedia