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Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 1
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Fourth of July broadcast featuring the film "Where the Buffalo Roam"
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:36:57
It's the 100th anniversary of World War One. CBC Radio presents The War in the Air. At the start of the war generals publicly stated their disdain ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, Marfa Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 8
A reading of the entire Star Spangled Banner.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...
- Added: Aug 15, 2010
- Length: 04:56
Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
David suggests that we should pay more attention to Presidents' Day.
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 03:43
When we light a candle for Lincoln's day we rekindle ours
- Added: Jan 23, 2006
- Length: 02:51
Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WTJU, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 4