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Story of Writing July 31, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 731
Daniel Defoe is locked in the pillory for three days, it's "Black Tot Day," the U.S. and Soviet Union sign the START 1 Treaty. Happy birthdays of Ign…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing July 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 730
Samuel de Champlain starts nearly a century of war in New France, Walt Disney releases his first Oscar winner, and happy birthdays to Maria Anna Moza…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing July 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 729
The understanding of light changes and the world tries to define war crimes and limit them. Happy birthdays to Alexis de Tocqueville and Mary Lee Set…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing July 28, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 728
Lavinia Ream is commissioned to create a statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, Pres. Hoover orders the …
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing July 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 727
Things head south for the actual MacBeth, Robespierre is arrested, researchers prove insulin regulates blood sugar, Bugs Bunny appears in a Merry Mel…
2 years ago
Story of Writing July 26, 2024
The U.S. Post Office is created, the first book on Esperanto was published, and the major world powers signed the Potsdam Declaration. Happy birthday…
2 years ago
Story of Writing July 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 725
Mozart finishes his 40th Symphony, Jack London sails from San Francisco for gold in the Yukon, and JFK says any attack on West Berlin would be treate…
2 years ago
Story of Writing July 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 724
O. Henry gets out of prison, the Kellogg-Briand Pact goes into effect, SCOTUS rules Pres. Nixon could not ignore a subpoena for the White House tapes…
2 years ago
Story of Writing July 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 723
The Ford Motor Co. sells its first car, Chinese Communists meet for the first time to overthrow capitalism, and Phillippe Petain is put on trial in F…
2 years ago
Story of Writing July 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 722
Katherine Lee Bates starts writing the poem that would become "America the Beautiful." And happy birthday to Emma Lazarus - with a reading of her poe…
2 years ago