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Story of Writing August 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 820
Charles Darwin publishes his theory of natural selection, the end of the U.S. Civil War is declared, and Canada seriously considers its dissolution. …
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 819
The eastern U.S. learns "there's gold in them thar hills" in California, the liberation of Paris begins, and happy birthday to Ogden Nash - with a re…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 818
The Spanish language gets its grammar rules, women in the U.S. get the right to vote, Nabokov's "Lolita" is published in the U.S., and anti-Apartheid…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 817
Sir Walter Raleigh tries to create the colony of Roanoke in the New World, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is published, and the birthday club includes…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 816
The Gurindji get some of their land back, and the birthday club includes T. E. Lawrence, Georgette Heyer, Wallace Thurman, William Keepers Maxwell, J…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 815
The movie "The Wizard of Oz" hits the silver screen, and the birthday club includes Walter Scott, Oscar Peterson, Stanley Milgram, and Stieg Larsson …
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 814
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, and the birthday club includes Ernest Thompson Seton, Ernest Thayer, David Crosby, St…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 813
King Louis XVI is arrested, "barbed-wire Sunday," and happy birthday to Lucy Stone - with a reading of Stone's position on speaking out against slave…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 812
Isaac Singer patents his sewing machine, Sue Hendrickson discovers the biggest and best skeleton of a T-Rex, and NAFTA happens. Happy birthdays to Ra…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing August 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 811
Hedy Lamarr gets a patent and the birthday club includes Angus Wilson and Alex Haley - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
1 year, 11 months ago