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Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Francis Scott Key wrote what would become the National Anthem for the United States. The question is, is what we sing now in the form he meant it t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Abner Doubleday. Civil War General and baseball inventor? Explore how Doubleday may have become associated with America’s Pasttime in this episode ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Is the classic rhyme MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB based on actual events? We explore this possibility in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Every year a large ball drops in Times Square to usher in the New Year. We take a look at the beginings of that tradition in today’s episode of Did...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Did Clement Clarke Moore get his inspiration from real life stories? We explore that on today’s episode of Did This Happen?!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley came up with the very first Christmas cards. But exactly why did they do so? Find out on today’s episode o...

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Again in front of a live audience, the players can't keep quiet even though they are in a public library

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Hosted by Raymond McCullough, in Belfast, Northern Ireland: with music from: The Mighty Regis, Dennis Agajanian, Barbarian Pipe Band, Weiss and Red...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
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For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes is a crime... and an art form. Jacorey investigates.

Bought by The Story, KUOW, PRX Remix, KUT, and YouthCast


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 5
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At one elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts, Legos are having a big impact on S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) learning....

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:09
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Humorous,on-the-job stories told by a Driver Education instructor.

Bought by KMUZ


  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college.

Bought by WEZU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 4
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Harvey Sherman remembers October 3, 1951, when the Brooklyn Dodgers lost the pennant on a home run known as the "shot heard 'round the world."

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Comedy Academy Cast, Credit: Courtesy of Harry Bagdasian
For fifteen years, the Comedy Academy of Silver Spring has been teaching the art of comedy. Working with students ranging from 12- 18 including ch...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2010
  • Length: 07:07

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 3
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The games they play here involve dragons, wizards, and superheroes. And sometimes...they come with stereotypes.

Bought by KUOW and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 2
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A musical from the bottom of the food chain ... billions of these microscopic luminescent creatures in every bucket of the salty sea.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 13, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Interesting and scary facts about the nuts and bolts of love.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:45
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That's what her mother said, changing majors, again?

Bought by WTIP and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 2
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College student worries about the cost of education.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:40

  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
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Phil Kyle is a Naturalist in Sandwich, Massachusetts and feeds the birds. in the thicket behind his office every morning.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 4
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Adam Lazarus is a myrmecologist who spends most days in the woods loking for ants, even though it leaves him feeling a little guilty.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
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A day...night, rather, in the life of a high school senior

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Tibetan children from 6 to 14 years share their thoughts on their identity in a Tibetan language and culture class in the heart of Los Angeles

  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 09:12