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At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
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During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:22
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:04
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By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
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And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
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In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
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Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
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After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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A profile of Anne Hutchinson - a maverick spiritual leader in Massachusetts during the early 1600's.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
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This week on Culture Queue, we look underneath the cape and the cowl, learn about makeshift furniture and uncover a whole lot more culture in the T...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Culture Queue, we focus on codes and the keys to cracking them. We start with producers Noel Clark and Mitch Skinner discovering how t...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 31:35
  • Purchases: 1
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A Crash Course in Camping - By Noel Clark: In 2007 the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources researched why people in Minnesota were spending l...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:34
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This week on Culture Queue, we leave the comfort of Radio K's studios for some fresh air and exercise. We begin with a report from Producer Noel Cl...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Culture Queue, we take you outside your comfort zone to deliver stories from fringe society. Producer Mitch Skinner returns from San D...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
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By Mark Sheely. Just an hour north of the Twin Cities and already the towering pines and sparkling lakes begin to fill the scenery. A giant walleye...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1
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By Mark Sheely. Culture Queue brings you Part Two and the conclusion of our radio play adaptation, The Immortal Ms. Sherlock Holmes. Will Holmes ou...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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This week from Culture Queue, we're keen as mustard to bring you the thrilling conclusion of our play from across the pond. Join Sherlock, Moriarty...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 24:28
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This week on Culture Queue, we join in Radio K's annual celebration of the Twin Cities Pride Parade. Our GLBTA show starts with reporter Emma Nelso...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Culture Queue, we "honor" the memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Orson Welles alike with our lastest radio play. It's "The Immorta...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 33:22
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By Brianna Hanson. This week, Culture Queue once again steps into the world of old timey radio drama. Because the University of Minnesota is home t...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: :40
  • Purchases: 1