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It was L. Frank Baum’s mother-in-law who encouraged him to write down the fanciful stories he told his kids. Seems he put a bit of himself into the tales, too.
September 28, 2024Why did Governor Dewitt Clinton build a giant ditch across New York state? To get to the other side.
August 17, 2024The American B-24 Bomber departed a Libyan Air Base on a bombing raid in April 1943.
August 8, 2024You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of the most famous singers in the world. None other than Arturo Toscanini, once told her she had a voice “heard once in a hundred years”. ...
July 25, 2024Paredoilia is the tendency to reconcile vague shapes as something you’re familiar with, like seeing shapes in clouds the craters of the moon: a little baby, a man…or a rabbit.
July 11, 2024When the Apollo 11 crew returned home they splashed down 900 miles southwest of Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean.
July 5, 2024Guest host Mike Tirico on one of Syracuse University’s greatest athletes.
June 23, 2024