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Story of Writing November 28, 2023
Season 1 Episode 188
The Times of London starts using a steam-powered printing press, and happy birthdays to Berry Gordy and Rita Mae Brown - with a reading from "The Cou…
2 years, 5 months ago
Story of Writing November 27, 2023
Season 1 Episode 187
The American Statistical Association is established, "Also sprach Zaruthustra" premiers, and the birthday club includes Charles A. Beard and Gail She…
2 years, 5 months ago
Story of Writing November 24, 2023
Season 1 Episode 184
"Black Beauty" is published, and the birthday club includes Frances Hodgson Burnett and Arundhati Roy - with a reading from Burnett's "The Secret Gar…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 23, 2023
Season 1 Episode 183
John Milton publishes "Areopagitica," prohibiting prescribing beer in the U.S., Edwin Hubble publishes his finding the Andromeda was a galaxy, "Docto…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 22, 2023
Season 1 Episode 182
The birthday club includes George Eliot, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodney Dangerfield, and Terry Gilliam - with a reading from "The Mill on the Floss," by Ge…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 21, 2023
Season 1 Episode 181
Measuring the speed of light, introducing the phonograph, mass-energy equivalence, allowing women to serve in the UK Parliament, and happy birthday t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 20, 2023
Season 1 Episode 180
European powers sign the second Treaty of Paris, a whale attacks and destroys the Nantucket whaling ship The Essex, the UN adopts the Declaration of …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Story of Writing November 19, 2023
Season 1 Episode 179
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 18, 2023
Season 1 Episode 178
The U.S. time zones are adopted, Britain's Black Friday saw violence against women demonstrating for their right to vote, South Africa ends minority …
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 17, 2023
Season 1 Episode 177
President Nixon says, "I am not a crook," the first case of COVID-19 is traced back to an open-air food market in Wuhan, the birthday club includes P…
2 years, 6 months ago