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Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was born John Luther Jones, but we knew him as Casey. And even though Casey Jones died in an obscure, single fatality train accident more than 1...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 2
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:01
He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
So ... who was Amy Beach? Simply one of the greatest American composers many of us have never heard.
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 03:00
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 03:45
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 02:48
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 02:32
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 03:19
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 03:40
How early, miniature greenhouses aboard ships helped shape global commerce
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
