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Adventures in Research – Mariah Coventry. ep7, 430316
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:58 — 6.9MB) A womans life has been made one of comparative ease. Time was the only kitchen utensils were her own two hands. No refridgerator, no gas stove, no washing machine. Listen to a pioneer woman, Mariah Coventry, as we see what her daily life was [...]
Adventures in Research – Yesterdays Secret Weapon. ep6, 430309
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:52 — 6.8MB) The most commonplace tool of a man in uniform was once yesterday’s secret weapon. Learn how a German inventor used black powder to propel arrows through space. With it, many arrows could be launched at once. Later, in 1862, Gatling had another plan to [...]
Adventures in Research – I Scream You Scream. ep5, 430302
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:39 — 6.7MB) One of the most popular people on the Summertime streets is the ice cream man. Todays story tells the story behind ice cream. Dispelling a popular myth about it’s origin with Dolly Madison, we touch base with ancient Romans and a treat set before [...]
Adventures in Research – The King of Ice. ep3, 430216.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:42 — 6.7MB) Modern conveniences were unheard of in times before the 19th century. For instance, ice was only a seasonal feature, and an unimaginable luxury in the tropics, until the Ice King. A Boston man sailed to the tropics, and marveled that the natives there had [...]
Adventures in Research – Fight Against Fire. ep2, 430209.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:52 — 6.8MB) The story of fire, and the men who fought it through the ages. Early indian tribes just packed up their homes and moved to avoid fire. Early white men had bucket brigades. With homes built with wooden chimneies, it didn’t help the matter much. [...]
Adventures in Research – Piece of Silk. ep1, 430202.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:51 — 6.8MB) The story of a man who fell over 8000 feet through space to prove his idea about parachutes would work. The idiotic idea of drifting through the air, supported by a piece of cloth was scoffed at, but Andre had already envisioned it as [...]
CBS Evening News – War News Updates. 450513.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:07 — 11.5MB) What happened this day in news? What were the hot topics of concern? Robert Krout reports on the National Day of Prayer. Island attacks, fighting on Okinawa, New Guinea, and elsewhere in the Pacific theater. Rumors of Himler’s capture in Germany. A remote to [...]
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar – Dr Otto Schmedlich. 491015.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:12 — 13.8MB) Doctor Sshmedlick has been insured for malpractice, but now the insurance company believes they should have left him alone. Johnny Dollar is given the task to see if he is just a worthless quack, and if he is trying to defraud the company. Johnny [...]
You Are There 480919 ep42 The Ratification Of The US Constitution
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:57 — 6.4MB) The Ratification Of The US Constitution. The place is Virginia. The event, the continental Congress convenes to debate over the proposed Constitution. CBS reporters deliver the blow by blow report of events as they transpire. The Federalists are all for the Constitution, and a [...]
You Can’t Do Business With Hitler 420000 ep09 Anti Christ
Back in the war years there was a train of thought that Hitler was the Anti-Christ. Maybe so, but with decades of history since then, he obviously he wasn’t. The Nazi’s didn’t let anybody stand in there way, and no religious group was exempt from oppression. Nazi’s made sure that they placed their own officials [...]
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