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Featured audio list

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2009 - Barack Obama's inauguration speech
The full audio recording of the inaugural address made by Barack Obama after being sworn in as the forty-fourth President of the United States on January 20, 2009. (Duration: 18 minutes, 57 seconds)

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January 28, 2008 – State of the Union Address by President George W. Bush
George W. Bush's address, given on the first floor of the House of Representatives at the Capitol.

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1987 – Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall
Complete speech by Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987.

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1964 — Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Speech by Lyndon Baines Johnson upon signing the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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1788 – Auld Lang Syne
Frank C. Stanley's 1910 performance of Robert Burns' Auld Lang Syne. Contains the first and last verse.

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Victimae Paschali Laudes
The 11th-century "Victimae Paschali Laudes", traditionally attributed to Wipo of Burgundy, is one of the few traditional Latin "sequences" still used by the Roman Catholic Church today.

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Ordo Virtutum
From Ordo Virtutum (c.1151) by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179). Performed by Makemi.

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Enrico Caruso, George Frideric Handel, Ombra mai fu (Serse)
"Ombra mai fù" (and the introductory recitative) from George Frideric Handel's Serse, as performed by Enrico Caruso in 1920.

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Marcha Real
La marcha real (The Royal March), the National Anthem of Spain, performed by the United States Navy Band. It is one of the oldest national anthems in the world as it was adopted in 1770, though, due to its age, the composer is unknown. It is also one of the few national anthems without words.

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1860 – Au Clair de la Lune
This 1860 phonautogram by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is the earliest known recording of the human voice, though it was never intended to be played back.

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c. July 1888 – Recording of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord"
The Lost Chord, recorded by George Gouraud. It was played at the August 14, 1888, press conference that introduced the phonograph to London.

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October 1888 – After-dinner speech by Arthur Sullivan at the Little Menlo, London
A very early wax cylinder recording (October 5, 1888) of composer Arthur Sullivan. It was created in London by George Gouraud as an audio letter to be sent back to Edison.

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1890 – "America", read by Walt Whitman
An 1890 recording of Walt Whitman reading the opening four lines of his poem "America", from his collection Leaves of Grass.

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1899 – Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
A recording of the Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" (composed in January 1856 by James James, with words by his father Evan James), sung by Madge Breese for the Gramophone Company on 11 March 1899.

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1912 – The Right of the People to Rule
Excerpts of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt at Carnegie Hall, March 12, 1912, recorded August 12 by Thomas Edison. The time constraints of the wax cylinder medium probably required the abridgement.

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1913 – Woodrow Wilson's Address to the American Indians
Woodrow Wilson's address on the affairs of American Indians, "The great white father now calls you his brothers". The speech recognised the wrongs of the past and the injustices inflicted on the Native Americans and was a formal apology by Wilson to the Native Americans.

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1921 – "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association"
Complete 1921 speech by Marcus Garvey

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1939 – Chamberlain war declaration
Neville Chamberlain announcing that Britain was at war with Germany, over the wireless, on 3 September 1939

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1941 – Four Freedoms speech.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's January 6, 1941 State of the Union Address, using the theme of the Four Freedoms, which he felt represented universal rights in a well-formed society, to explain why he brought America to join World War II. (transcript)

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1969 – "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
The sentence uttered by Neil Armstrong upon being the first human to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 21, 1969

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