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Your Best Investment: Starting Your Own Business
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: On The Money Minute
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Samuel Huntington, January 5, 1796
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
Black History: Thelonious Monk, February 17, 1982
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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A founding father of bebop and modern jazz, wife Nellie called his style "Melodius Thunk."

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nguyen Sinh Cung, September 3, 1969
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Iron Eyes Cody, January 4, 1999
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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If the name isn't familiar, it's still a good bet you know the face.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Erroll Garner, January 2, 1977
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Laika, November 3, 1957
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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A true, Russian space hero died today. As a matter of fact, the very first Russian space hero. And as it turns out, she was the first space martyr....

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grace Murray Hopper, January 1, 1992
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Even if you've never heard of Grace Hopper, she changed your life.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Jack Norworth, September 1, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Roger Arthur Peterson (Buddy Holly Pilot), February 3, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Buddy Holly pilot. Everybody knows how Roger Peterson died, but almost nobody knows who he was.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Day in Tech History - October 07
From: Jeffrey Powers
Series: Day in Tech History
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Daily rundown of Tech History

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 06:17
Day in Tech History
From: Jeffrey Powers
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We run through Technology history on a daily basis

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 04:40
The Neighborhood that Launched Barack Obama
From: PRX
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Many Chicagoans know Barack Obama's neighborhood of Hyde Park as a special niche in the city, its history, and its politics.

Bought by Vocalo.org, KRUA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX PromCom


  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 4
Apple Orchard Opera
From: John Stiles
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An 'in dialect' and audio narrative of rural poems from the Annapolis Valley, in Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Added: May 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:36
The Third Unheard: Connecticut's Hip-Hop History
From: Derek John
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A long forgotten hip-hop scene is unearthed in the unlikeliest of places.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 29, 2005
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
State of Things PROMO
From: Keith Weston
Caption: PRX default Piece image
PROMO for the WUNC-produced regional program, The State of Things

  • Added: Jan 26, 2005
  • Length: :29