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Our unappreciated national treasure, Susan B. Anthony spent more than five decades in a struggle to transform life for American women by securing t...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Explorer, naturalist, writer ... in his too-short life, Lewis helped to make this country ... literally ... what it is today. From sea to shining s...
- Added: Sep 30, 2011
- Length: 03:00
More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If his name doesn't ring a bell, it's because we knew him ... millions of television viewers ... from the 1950s all the way through to the Nickelod...
- Added: Jun 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
While he's not exactly a household name, with more than 400 patents to his credit, you know his work.
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was born John Luther Jones, but we knew him as Casey. And even though Casey Jones died in an obscure, single fatality train accident more than 1...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 2
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
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
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
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
So ... who was Amy Beach? Simply one of the greatest American composers many of us have never heard.
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 03:00
A Hawaiian voyaging canoe is now sailing around the world for the first time as part of a movement to create a more sustainable world. When the ic...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jan 31, 2007
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 03:05
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 03:40
The lowly garden pea has many fans, including Elvis Presley and NASA.
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
How early, miniature greenhouses aboard ships helped shape global commerce
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
Traveling to the Territory of Alaska as a biologist, Clarence Birdseye observes how the Natives preserved food, inspiring a revolution in the food...
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett shared a special love for each other, through flowers.
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
