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History of the Great Wall of China | Bedtime History Story
Episode 64
Sunday, March 23, 2025 • Duration 55:53
In this sleepy bedtime history episode, I tell you about the History of the Great Wall, the "Ten-Thousand Mile Wall" (万里长城). Through it, we will explore the history of Ancient China from the birth of civilization around the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, to the Ming Dynasty, the last one to maintain and expand the Wall.
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Greek Myths: Orpheus and Eurydice, Jason and the Argonauts
Episode 63
Sunday, March 9, 2025 • Duration 01:16:55
In this new episode for bedtime, I tell you two great myths from Ancient Greece:
• The Story of Orpheus, the legendary poet and musician, and how he tried to rescue his wife Eurydice from the realm of Hades and Persephone.
• The Story of Jason and the Argonauts, who embarked on the Argo on an epic quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
In these stories we will meet numerous gods and other beings, like Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Athena, Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite, Chiron the Centaur, Charon the Ferryman, Cerberus, Calliope the Muse, and Medea the Enchantress.
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En Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LaBibliotecadelosSuenosov
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Native American Mythology (Apache and Navajo) | Sleepy Mythology Story
Episode 54
Sunday, December 1, 2024 • Duration 01:02:11
Tonight, I tell you about several creation myths from the Apache and Navajo traditions, including the Kiowa Apache myth of Kuterastan and the Navajo Diné Bahaneʼ ("Story of the People"), in our usual relaxing and ASMR-ish style. We also discuss the historical roots of these peoples in the American Southwest and the north of Mexico, how they used to live, their linguistic connections across North America, and the figure of Geronimo.
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Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
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Space Cruise: Comets, Asteroids and Shooting Stars | Sleepy Science
Episode 53
Sunday, November 24, 2024 • Duration 01:04:01
In this new astronomy episode, I take you on a discovery journey of meteors (shooting stars) and meteorites, asteroids in the Solar System, and comets. I tell you about 'Oumuamua, Halley's Comet, Hale-Bopp, and several phenomena like ram pressure and highly eccentric orbits.
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Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
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En Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LaBibliotecadelosSuenosov
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History of Timekeeping | History for Sleep
Episode 52
Sunday, November 10, 2024 • Duration 01:10:25
In this sleepy episode, I tell you about the long history of timekeeping devices, from the first sundials and water clocks to mechanical clocks, quartz timers, and atomic clocks. Beyond technique, we also explore how the perception and management of time are cultural phenomena.
Welcome to Lights Out Library
Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
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En Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LaBibliotecadelosSuenosov
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The Epic of Gilgamesh | Sleepy Story
Episode 51
Sunday, November 3, 2024 • Duration 01:10:10
This bedtime story tells you the Epic of Gilgamesh based on the Standard Babylonian Version. I also tell you about Mesopotamian mythology and the emergence of civilizations in the region, from Sumer and Akkad to Assyria and Babylonia.
Welcome to Lights Out Library
Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
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Ghost Ships: Flying Dutchman, Mary Celeste and More | Sleep Documentary
Episode 50
Sunday, October 27, 2024 • Duration 01:15:11
Tonight, I tell you the sleepy stories of four different ghost ships, together with their historical context and what happened to them. Two are fictional: the Flying Dutchman, a flute from the Age of Sails that would have traded between Amsterdam and the Spice Islands, and the Caleuche, a legendary ship on the island of Chiloe, Chile. Two are real: the Mary Celeste that mysteriously lost her crew in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baychimo, which was abandoned but unexpectedly kept wandering for decades in the waters north of Canada and Alaska.
Welcome to Lights Out Library
Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
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Journey Under the Sea | Sleepy Documentary Story
Episode 49
Sunday, October 13, 2024 • Duration 01:04:40
In this bedtime story, I take you on an underwater cruise to the various layers of the Earth's oceans. I talk about marine life, its evolution, and the conditions it had to adapt to. Types of animals or species we look at in more detail include jellyfish, coral, sharks, giant squids, sperm whales, the components of plankton, fishes from the bathyal zone and below, or the inhabitants of ecosystems around cold seeps and hydrothermal vents. We also make a bit of time travel, and I tell you about some of the largest creatures that dominated our seas from the Cambrian period to today: trilobites, anomalocaris, sea scorpions, placoderm fishes, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs or megalodons.
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¿Quieres escuchar en Español? Echa un vistazo a La Biblioteca de los Sueños!
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One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) | Sleepy Stories
Episode 48
Sunday, October 6, 2024 • Duration 01:15:49
This bedtime story is about One Thousand and One Nights (also known as "Arabian Nights"). I tell you several famous stories from this compilation of Middle Eastern and North African folk tales and legends. These include the framing story with Scheherazade and Shahryar, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "The Merchant and the Genie," "Sinbad the Sailor" and his seven voyages, and "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp." I also tell you a little bit about where this compilation of stories comes from.
Welcome to Lights Out Library
Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
Listen ad free and get access to bonus content on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LightsOutLibrary621
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¿Quieres escuchar en Español? Echa un vistazo a La Biblioteca de los Sueños!
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En Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LaBibliotecadelosSuenosov
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Mysteries in the American Desert | Mystery Stories for Sleep
Episode 47
Sunday, September 29, 2024 • Duration 01:06:55
Tonight, I tell you three different stories:
- Area 51: How did this USAF base gain its reputation for being at the center of numerous conspiracies, including the dissimulation and reverse-engineering of alien technology? We take a look at what is documented, from its creation in 1955 as a test facility for the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, to the study of foreign technology and the intense secrecy around the base's activities.- Chaco Canyon is a large archaeological site in New Mexico, built more than a thousand years ago and over several generations by the Ancestral Puebloans. But it was obviously not just a residence settlement: What is the meaning, and the function of these alignments based on astronomical observation and cardinal directions, the care given to landscaping, or this enigmatic web of roads that radiate from the canyon?- The Toba Catastrophe Theory hypothesizes that a supervolcano that erupted around 70,000 years ago in Indonesia would have dramatically affected the course of life on Earth, including mankind. What are supervolcanoes? What is it based on? What could have happened?
Welcome to Lights Out Library
Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.
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