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Story of Writing May 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 518
The first statute in the American colonies that banned slavery, and the birthday club includes Omar Khayyam, Frank Capra, and Tina Fey - with a readi…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 517
The Buttonwood Agreement, Brown v. Board of Education, the World Health Organization finds homosexuality is not an illness, but a natural variation o…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 516
The Sedition Act of 1918, the first Academy Awards ceremony, and the U.S. Surgeon General warns the addictive properties of nicotine are equal to her…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 515
Robespierre proposes the self-denying ordinance, Standard Oil is declared a monopoly and broken up. The birthday club includes L. Frank Baum, Katheri…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 514
The birthday club includes George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Christine Brennan, Raphael Saadiq, and Mark Zuckerberg - all with a reading from "There Is …
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 513
The UK's Queen Victoria proclaims that nation's neutrality in the U.S. Civil War and the Philadelphia police bomb MOVE - with a reading from UK Prime…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 512
The birthday club includes Albert Murray, Burt Bacharach, and George Carlin - with a reading from e. e. cummings' "somewhere i have never travelled, …
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 511
The first book (that we know of) is published and happy birthdays to Harriet Quimby, Irving Berlin, and Rose Auslander - with a reading from Auslande…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 510
Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated to run for U.S. President, Winston Churchill becomes English Prime Minister, and the birthday clu…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 509
The English and Portuguese sign the Treaty of Windsor, and happy birthdays to J. M. Barrie and Richard Adams - with a reading from Barrie's "Peter Pa…
2 years ago