Against all odds, Shuja rises again. A figurehead for the British East India Company, he watches as an invading army devastates his homeland—in his name. Meanwhile, Dost Mohammed’s son Akbar Khan leads a counterforce to be reckoned with. In time, he becomes a threat to his own father’s power. The British, chief among them Alexander Burnes, learn the hard way: The wicked will not go unpunished.

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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires: The Great Game for South and Central Asia by Farrukh Husain

Siraj al-Tawarikh by Faiz Muhammad Kāteb and translated by Robert D. McChesney.

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The British East India Company plots an invasion of Afghanistan. A bogus casus belli and puppet king are all they need—and the rivalry between their agent, Alexander Burnes, and a Russian spy named Ivan Vitkevitch becomes a zero sum game. 

This is the beginning of the Great Game, or, as the Russians knew it: The Tournament of Shadows.

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In early 19th century Afghanistan, two warring dynasties contend for the throne. While the Sadozai brothers—grandsons of the empire’s founding king—feud amongst themselves, the Barakzai clan plots its ascendance.

Shuja ul-Mulk of the Sadozais and Dost Mohammed Khan of the Barakzais grow up together in court, but as young men they become bitter enemies. Eventually, they must face each other on the battlefield.

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"I can say more with music than I ever could with words.” -Eric Dolphy

Music:
- Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle
- Nero's Nocturne by Chilly Gonzales
- Warm Canto by Mal Waldron, Eric Dolphy, & Booker Ervin
- Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
- Rearranging Furniture by Gabriel Yared
- The Homeless Wanderer by Emahoy Tsege Miriam Gebru
- God Bless the Child by Eric Dolphy
- Conquistadores by Chico Hamilton
- Yearnin' by Eric Dolphy
- When the Lights Are Low by John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy
- Stolen Moments by Eric Dolphy
- It Never Entered My Mind by the Miles Davis Quintet
- Max sad clarinette by Michel Portal
- Such Owls as You by Brambles
- Meditations by Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy

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What if sound lives forever?

Music:

• Imaginary Landscape No. 4 by John Cage
• Tezeta by Mulatu Askatke
• Electronium Music Score by Raymond Scott
• Lacrymae by Melodium
• Kapsburger by Clogs
• A Lake by Emily A. Sprague
• Tiden Effert Hoffet by I.B. Sundstrom
• When the Northern Lights by Max Richter
• X-Ray by Youth Lagoon
• Legions (War) by Zoe Keating
• Disintegration Loops #3 by William Basinski
• 92982.3 by William Basinski

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The story of one of the worst numerical beatdowns in the history of professional sports.

Music:
- Reckless by Brocker Way
- Green Groves of Erin by Yo Yo Ma 
- Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Vivaldi
- Classic Battle by Sam Spence
- Denmark by Portland Cello Project
- Independant by Brocker Way
- Tilting at Windmills by Brocker Way
- Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
- Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- 2 by AAEPSO
- Climax Rag by James Scott
- Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
- En Gang Agde by 1900
- Epilogue by Brocker Way

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Chicago, 1979. Disco was on top of the world. And some people didn't like that…

When a failing baseball team and a peg-legged promoter hosted an anti-disco radio DJ armed with a quarter stick of dynamite… things quickly got out of hand.

Welcome to Disco Demolition Night.

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An episode from a show I love called The Wind.  

"Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do."

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Neils Bohr returns with a new plan for world peace, Oppenheimer’s enemies close in from all sides as the Cold War warms up, and shadowy figures from the world of high finance work to expand the American nuclear weapons program.

Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/

Additional music by Alarm Will Sound, Marisa Anderson, Kali Malone, Zoe Keating, Julie Kent, Ben Von Wildenhaus, Brocker Way, William Basinski, Nine Inch Nails, Mulatu Astatke, Richard D. James, Jon Hopkins, and Nils Frahm. Final song by King Dude.

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Norwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg. 

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Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, Jed Kurzel, Hala Strana, Anne Hytta, Nine Inch Nails, and Nico.

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