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Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2024
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College is now ridiculously expensive and students are in hock up to their eyebrows. President Biden wants to help -- but the Supremes have stopped...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2024
- Length: 03:00
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Life is changing quickly for people in Hong Kong
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- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S....
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too. But one gets our personal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 03:00
The term Guns or Butter? goes back to World War I and protests over prioritizing the production of munitions over the production of dairy products....
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 03:01
December 7, 1941 was one of the deadliest days in American History. The massive assault on Pearl Harbor drove the American military to do something...
- Added: Dec 04, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...
- Added: Nov 12, 2023
- Length: 03:00
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Maybe you can't change world affairs, but there’s lots you can do to make things better right here in the USA, no matter where you live.
Make a Di...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 02:45
In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 08:31
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
Rockefeller, Astor, Carnegie, Stanford. Rich guys from the late 1900s for sure, but what else? Robber barons. Big boys at the top of U.S. business,...
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 03:00
A new group is mobilizing Moms across the country, hoping to change the way schools teach and operate, and they've got some high profile support. W...
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 03:00
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about a new book in the "Decades" series that documents the band Faith No More and thei...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 27:59
Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:33
The French Pantheon was created in 1790 to honor those who have done great service to the country. The motto over the door reads "To great men, a g...
- Added: Mar 23, 2023
- Length: 02:58
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...
- Added: Mar 04, 2023
- Length: 03:01
Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s provocative 1985 novel satirizes the stressful chaos and insanity of American life.
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 07:08
A drama of a woman unjustly ostracized reveals deeper meanings, in a breakthrough work of Mexican cinema.
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 02:26
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 03:25
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
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