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Seldom written about, female gladiators fought for glory and Rome from around 509 BCE to 200 AD. What little information we have about them was in ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 1
During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
That's right. Way back in the early 1900s, when women were protesting for the right to vote, there was a four-foot eleven-inch woman teaching the S...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 09:26
Born in Kansas in 1877, Maud grew up to be the first white female tattoo artist in the United States.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 05:29
This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 01:17:06
We fell down a Pinterest hole and found a whole bunch of women who we'd NEVER heard about in history classes. Ching Shih, an infamous Chinese pirat...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 20:09
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 1
Kay Johnston Massar tells her husband, Cy Massar, about being the first girl to play Little League baseball.
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Constance Markievicz. The Irish revolutionary known as ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 33:11
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 01:01:12
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Speed-kibitzing with the second Jewish baby ever born in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 27, 2006
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
