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Ten thousand spectators gathered by the side of the Thames on 19th October, 2003 to watch street magician/illusionist David Blaine come back down t...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 08:38
The Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20th October, 1973, marking the start of a two-week festival of events in celebration of...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 09:05
For our season finale, Devin and Lauren tell the story of the Fox sisters, who rose to fame as early practitioners of modern spiritualism in the 19...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 30:00
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is how quiet it is, for the most part. Sometimes you’ll hear a pinyon log sort of bonk against a bo...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2022
- Length: 28:00
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It's 1576 and you don't have a young boy to spare to turn your meat while it cooks. So what could you use? A turnspit dog.
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- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 05:05
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In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn't afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic,...
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- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 04:48
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It's 1789 and the beginning of bureaucracy in the United States. James Madison is writing letters to smooth the path of George Washington's disorga...
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- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 05:06
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It wasn't just fame and glory that inspired Lewis and Clark's expedition across this great land. It took a "medication" so powerful that people wou...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 04:58
Radio show on KZCT 89.5 FM Vallejo, CA (Ozcatradio.com) "On The Side" with Chef Mark, featuring guest Doug the Jitterbug. Chef Mark gets the turnta...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 02:55:03
On July 6th, 1930 Fred Newton dipped a toe into the Mississippi river and explained to reporters that he planned to swim from Minneapolis to New Or...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:59
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A word on sound quality: We're still recording remotely. Just pretend Amy is on the moon, reporting from her own personal spaceship.
Besides the ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 05:09
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During the 13th century, in the part of the world that would become Germany, husbands and wives could settle marital disagreements with an elaborat...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2020
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
In 1930, the Kutol company came up with a putty to clean coal dust off of walls. Impending bankruptcy forced them to shift gears to find new ways o...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
The term Jimmy Legs describes both a syndrome and the restless leg bumping up and down that some of us do when nervous or full of energy. Let's fin...
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- Added: Mar 03, 2020
- Length: 03:36
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This episode will have you outside with a sharpened stake, a hammer, a slab of metal and an empty coffee can. That's right, we're going to be talki...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:58
Sometimes in life its best to not think of the worlds troubles. You just have to whistle. So tonight three hours of whistle songs. I hope the vari...
- Added: Feb 23, 2018
- Length: 02:57:53
On this episode of Culture Clique, we catch up with Hmong activist and educator Tou Gher Xiong. Tou teaches cultural awareness through a routine of...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 19:45
Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...
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- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:49
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The innovate art of chinking, filling the gaps between the logs in a log cabin, is being lost on the present generation. Modern restoration efforts...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:47
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 10:19
A man named Jim Deans arrives in Rockland, Maine to set up a recording studio in the back of the old American Legion Hall, but where did he come fr...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:14
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
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- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 01:44
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 01:46
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:43
