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- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy never learned how to fly a kite, and he regrets it every September.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
What we call mango in English has a hundred different names in India. Indians don’t love their mangos. They form fanatical fan clubs of different k...
Bought by WDBM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
I was reporting on India’s 2014 general election which would bring Narendra Modi to power a year ago.
Sultan, though that’s not his real name, was...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
I was the guy who screamed at the horror picture, "The murder is in there. Don't go into the basement ..." Same thing happens when I hear a girl...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 02:52:50
Although the term civility seems to connote a type of outmoded, formal etiquette not practiced since the turn of the previous century, the use of c...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 07:13
It’s generally agreed that the silent film era lasted from 1894 to 1929; however, the history of projected images is much longer. Beginning in the ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 11:02
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Hyman Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. Well, he did as soon as he found something to write with as we see i...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
There are several theories as to what happened to the people of The Roanoke Colony. We explore one theory in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars, the residents of Hartlepool in England once put what they thought was a French spy on trial. We take...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. We see exactly how far ahead of his time John Montagu was in...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Fourteen year old, Philo T. Farnsworth, continues his work on the electric television. Apparently there was some trouble with some of the early mod...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
We’re very lucky that Philo T. Farnsworth, as a teenager, didn’t have any distractions like television to keep him from inventing…well…television. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Signed in 1215 in England, The Magna Carta is said to have inspired many constitutional documents including the United States Constitution. Journey...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1803, Lewis & Clark set out to trek across the Pacific Northwest to find passage to the Pacific Ocean. We are there moments after they started t...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Georges Claude is responsible for bringing the first ever neon signs to America when he sold two of them to a Packard Dealership in Los Angeles. We...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
One of Nikola Tesla’s greatest inventions was The Tesla Coil. However, even from the start, people were confused about what it did and what it was ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Abraham Lincoln has the idea for The Secret Service and he calls William P. Wood to The White House to talk about it in this week’s episode of Did ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
