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Story of Writing August 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 830
Ernest Shackleton rescues every crew member who served on his doomed expedition on the Endurance. The birthday club includes Mary Shelley, Virginia L…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing August 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 829
The Beatles play their last (paid) concert and the birthday club includes John Locke, Charlie Parker, and Temple Grandin - with a reading from Locke'…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing August 28, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 828
The oldest magazine continuously published in the U.S. puts out its first issue, and Pepsi-Cola is named. The infamous anniversary of the murder of E…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 827
Canada's Famous Five begin the march to equal rights and the Kellog-Briand Pact - which prohibited starting a war - is signed. The birthday club incl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 26, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 826
The French National Assembly approves "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," John Fitch gets the U.S. patent for the steamboat, a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 825
The Great Moon Hoax begins, the U.S. National Park Service is created, and the birthday club includes Walt Kelly and Leonard Bernstein - with a readi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 824
Nesmeterakhem writes in Egyptian hieroglyphics for the last time, the Treaty of Cordoba is signed, and the Panic of 1857 begins. Happy birthdays to H…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 823
England's King George proclaims that the American colonists were revolting, the "Salad Bowl" strike begins in California, and the World Wide Web is o…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 822
The Siege of Leningrad begins and the birthday club includes Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury, and Annie Proulx - with a reading from Par…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 21, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 821
British explorer James Cook claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates …
1 year, 11 months ago