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Carrots help you see in the dark
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Mitchell Zuckoff reads from Frozen In Time: An Epic Story of Survival and A Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (5/26)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 2
Back to War
From: Traveling 219
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A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 1
Battleship Missouri Memorial
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Battleship Missouri Memorial, Credit: USS Missouri Memorial Association
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Delta College Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVMR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 4
World War One and Armistice Day
From: Lester Graham
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Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, the day that World War I was to end. Here's one veteran's experiences.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WRVO Public Media, KUCB, 'The Sea', KRPS and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 33