Author: Caleb Bingham

1Inca Lands

By Hiram Bingham

<b>Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru.</b><br /><br /> There is nothing new under the sun, they say. That is only relatively true. Just now, when we thought there was practically no portion of the earth's surface still unknown, when the discovery of a single lake or mountain, or the charting of a remote strip of coast line was enough to give a man fame as an explorer, one member of the daredevil explorers' craft has "struck it rich." Struck it so dazzlingly rich, indeed, that all his confrères may be pardoned if they gnash their teeth in chagrin and turn green with envy. The lucky man is Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale, he whose hobby is South America. He has just announced that he has had the superb good fortune to discover an entire city, two thousand years old, a place of splendid palaces and temples and grim encircling walls, hidden away so thoroughly on the top of a well-nigh inaccessible mountain peak of the Peruvian Andes that the Spanish invaders of four hundred years ago never set eyes upon it. He calls it Machu Picchu. (From New York Times, June 15, 1913)<br /><br /> One hundred years ago in the summer of 1911, Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, returning in the summer of 1912 to excavate under the auspices of Yale and The National Geographic Society, and coming home to great acclaim and a spate of published articles and photos. He fully described the 1911 expedition and original find in his 1922 book INCA LANDS: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru. <br /> (Summary by New York Times and ToddHW)

Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets, and then in Issoudun, France, Bingham commanded the primary Air Service flying school. He became a supporter of the Air Service in their post-war quest for independence from the Army and supported that effort, in part, with the publication of this book of his wartime experiences published in 1920 by Yale University Press. (Summary by Wikipedia and ToddHW)

The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking. Typical of many readers of that period, the anthology included many speeches celebrating "republican virtues" and promoting patriotism. The Columbian Orator is an example of progymnasmata, containing examples for students to copy and imitate. In his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolitionist writer Douglass describes how he "got hold" of a copy of the Columbian Orator at the age of twelve, with far-reaching consequences for his life. - Summary by Wikipedia</br></br> Some of the sections were done as Dramas instead of solos. The readers for these Dramas are: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/1649">Kalynda</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/3645">MaryAnnS</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">Linette Geisel</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6065">David Olson</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6080">progressingamerica</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8368">A LibriVox Volunteer</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11305">Craig Franklin</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11535">Nemo</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614">Leanne Yau</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789">Tomas Peter</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10801">Jim Locke</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10995">April6090</a>, and <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11471">CarinaStarr7</a>.</br></br> The dramas were edited and proof listened by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796">Linette Geisel</a> and <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8368">A LibriVox Volunteer</a>.