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Worlds Story Vol II India, Persia & Mesopotamia — 114 episodes

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114 - St Louis as a prisoner by Joseph Francois Michaud

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113 - The children's crusade by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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112 - The children's crusade by Eva March Tappan

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111 - The tearing down of England's flag by Sir Walter Scott

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110 - The crusaders before Jerusalem painting p 610

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109 - ''God willeth it '' by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

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108 - Palestine Part III The crusades historical note

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107 - The burning of the temple by Flavius Josephus simplified by William Shepard

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106 - On the morning of Christ's nativity by John Milton

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105 - Palestine Part II A Roman province historical note

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104 - Jeremiah at the fall of Jerusalem painting p 582

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103 - The destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus simplified by William Shepard

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102 - Stories from the Talmud

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101 - The story of King Solomon

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100 - The shepherd boy who became king

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099 - The journey to the promised land

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098 - Palestine Part I In Old Testament times historical note

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097 - The fall of Babylon by Jacob Abbott

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096 - Belshazzar by Heinrich Heine

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095 - Daniel the fearless from the Old Testament

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094 - The make-believe elephants of Semiramis by Diodorus the Sicilian

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093 - How Semiramis built Babylon by Diodorus the Sicilian

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092 - Mesopotamia Part II Babylon the magnificent historical note

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091 - The destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron

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090 - How the Assyrians and Babylonians lived by A H Sayce

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089 - The lion hunt Assyrian bas-relief p 474

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088 - The tower of Babel by Sir David Lyndsay

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087 - How the Chaldaeans wrote books by G Maspero

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086 - The Chaldaeans and their wars by Diodorus the Sicilian

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085 - Mesopotamia Part I The kingdoms of Chaldaea and Assyria historical note

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084 - How a Persian Mohammedan says his prayers by Rev S G Wilson

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083 - Getting a glass of milk by S G W Benjamin

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082 - Making a present to an official by S G W Benjamin

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081 - How to make calls by S G W Benjamin

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080 - The audience chamber of the shah by S G W Benjamin

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079 - How the Persians build a house by S G W Benjamin

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078 - Persia Part IV How things are done in Persia historical note

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077 - New Year's calls and gifts by Samuel G Wilson

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076 - The Persian bazaars by Eustache de Lorey and Douglas Sladen

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075 - A Persian wedding by Charles James Wills

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074 - The food of the royal tutor by Wilfrid Sparroy

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073 - The prince who lost his book by Wilfrid Sparroy

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072 - Poe's tales at the Persian court by Wilfrid Sparroy

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071 - Persia Part III Stories of modern Persia historical note

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070 - Little stories from Sadi a Persian author of the Twelfth Century

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069 - The building of the bridge of Tus by Elizabeth A Reed

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068 - Dara by James Russell Lowell

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067 - The family of Darius at the feet of Alexander the Great painting p 368

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066 - The last king of Persia by Plutarch

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065 - Persia Part II Days of decline historical note

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064 - How Xerxes set out to conquer Greece by Herodotus

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063 - King Darius and the flying Scythians by Herodotus retold by Alfred J Church

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062 - The seven sleepers of Ephesus in the land of Lydia by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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061 - How Cyrus the Great won the land of gold by Jacob Abbott

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060 - Croesus showing Solon his treasures painting p 302

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059 - When Cyrus the Great was a boy by Xenophon

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058 - Sohrab's last contest by Matthew Arnold

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057 - Persia Part I The mighty empire historical note

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056 - The hill of bones by Rev Arthur Male

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055 - Afghanistan historical note

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054 - The white elephant by Heinrich Heine

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053 - The reception of a white elephant by Mrs A H Leonowens

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052 - Siam historical note

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051 - The coronation Durbar of 1911 by John Finnemore

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050 - Fables by Ramakrishna a Brahman saint of to-day

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049 - The last voyage painting p 245

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048 - The towers of silence by Sir Monier Monier-Williams

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047 - Camp life in India by Sir Monier Monier-Williams

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046 - Sunday in the British army in India by Rev Arthur Male

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045 - How the Mohammedans keep the festival of the Mohurrim by a member of the household of Nussir-u-deen

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044 - An idol car with stone wheels photograph p 200

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043 - The amusements of an eastern king by a member of the household of Nussir-u-deen late king of Oude

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042 - What is caste by Sir William Wilson Hunter

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041 - India Part VII The India of to-day historical note

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040 - When Queen Victoria became empress of India by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts

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039 - Jessie's Dream painting p 180

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038 - The relief of Lucknow by Robert Traill Spence Lowell

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037 - Indian customs and manners in 1840 by Hon Mountstuart Elphinestone

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036 - The impeachment of Warren Hastings by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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035 - The black hole of Calcutta by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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034 - How Robert Clive defended Arcot by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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033 - India Part VI India becomes a British province historical note

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032 - The decline of the Mogul empire by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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031 - Women of the palace at play Indian painting p 142

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030 - On the march with Aurungzebe by Francois Bernier

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029 - The Taj Mahal the most beautiful tomb in the World by Bayard Taylor

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028 - The peacock throne of the great mogul Shah Jehan by Jean Baptiste Tavernier

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027 - Prince with attendants in a garden Indian painting p 114

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026 - India Part V The Mogul conquest historical note

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025 - Sakoontala or the lost ring by Kalidasa

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024 - Poems by King Bhartrihari

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023 - The rock edicts of Asoka by Vincent A Smith

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022 - Interior of the temple of Vimala Sah Photograph p 90

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021 - Alexander the Great in India by Plutarch

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020 - India Part IV India in days of yore historical note

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019 - Some Indian proverbs

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018 - The seven weavers and the field of flax by John Christian

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017 - The washerman and the donkey by John Christian

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016 - Let's see on which side the camel sits by John Christian

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015 - The peacock and the tortoise by John Christian

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014 - The lord Krishna and the lapwing's nest by Margaret E Noble

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013 - The legend of the rice by Katherine Neville Fleeson

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012 - The man in the Moon by Katherine Neville Fleeson

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011 - Right and might by Katherine Neville Fleeson

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010 - India Part III A group of folklore stories historical note

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009 - Karma a story of Buddhist ethics by Paul Carus

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008 - Stories of Buddha by Sir Edwin Arnold

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007 - The life of Buddha by Sir William Wilson Hunter

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006 - India Part II Buddha and his teachings historical note

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005 - Savitri's choice from the Mahabharata rewritten by Elizabeth A Reed

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004 - The people whom the Aryans found in India by Sir William Wilson Hunter

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003 - Hymn to Indra and Soma from the Rig-Veda

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002 - India Part I The coming of the Aryans historical note

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001 - The pastimes of an Assyrian King Painting Frontispiece