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An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the ...
Rose Mackenberg spent decades working to uncover fraud taking place in the name of Spiritualism, first working for Houdini, and ...
Rose Mackenberg spent decades working to uncover fraud taking place in the name of Spiritualism, first working for Houdini, and ...
The Arab oil embargo of 1973 put the United States economy on the back foot, causing fuel shortages, a quadrupling ...
Action figures were originally toys that were ready for “action,” because they were more flexible than similar-sized dolls. Designed with ...
In March 1848, two young sisters in Hydesville, New York came up with what they may have considered a fun ...
Decades before the twirling, hip-shaking grooves of salsa music exploded into a global phenomenon, it emerged from the glitzy New ...
When bubonic plague hit Honolulu and San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, officials in those cities quickly ...
It’s extremely rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn one of its own decisions. Of the more than 25,500 ...
A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have ...
Jo Fidgen hears what was happening in the Pentagon and the Kremlin in the final days of the 1962 Cuban ...
Helen Duncan is sometimes described as Scotland’s last witch, or the last person imprisoned for witchcraft in Britain, or the ...
In 1639, doctor Edward May published a 40-page text about a serpent he found in the heart of a 21-year-old ...
Tracy and Holly discuss WWII submarine warfare as it related to Helen Duncan’s story. Tracy also shares her experience visiting ...
This 2009 episode from previous hosts Katie and Sarah covers Harry Houdini, once known as the world's greatest magician. Houdini's ...
In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Jo Fidgen spoke to American ...
In the 1960s, a wave of strikes and protest marches by Mexican-American farm workers inspired Latinos across the US. The ...
Park Heongjun takes us back to May 1980, when a strike in the city of Gwangju became one of the ...
Walt Disney cartoonists went on strike for nine weeks in 1941. They were led by Art Babbitt, Disney’s top animator ...
In 1979, British public sector workers went on strike over pay. Among those taking industrial action were gravediggers. But the ...
The world faces environmental challenges from global to local levels. Well-rehearsed but impenetrable issues, include the increased likelihood of damage to life and infrastructure from climate change; carbon management policies ...
J S Bach Magnificat The art of being succinct is not one always associated with the works of Bach; in his compact setting of the Magnificat he employs economy and ...
Haydn's Op. 76, the last set of six quartets he composed, are generally recognised as the pinnacle of his writing in the genre. They were completed in 1796-7 and published ...
Speakers present the current ‘state-of-the-art’ of mortality studies in the UK, Europe and beyond, with consideration to the influence of Graunt ...
The visual system has developed to allow us to navigate in a complex and dangerous world in order to find food and to avoid danger. This survival system works by ...
This concert will explore Haydn's visit to London and recreate the type of programme what would have been heard at the legendary Salomon Concerts in Hanover Square. Salomon was instrumental ...
THE LONDON ACCORD SPRING CONFERENCE Climate Change: Structuring Cleantech Investment The Conference will address issues related to the development of investment instruments for infrastructure and the low carbon economy. Keynote ...
Memorability is sometimes achieved by the simple technique of repetition, in addition to more high-flown inspiration. Some of the simplest sustaining devices of great music are ground bass, ostinato or ...
Bach's title page to the Orgelbüchlein reads: "Little organ book in which guidance is given to an inquiring organist in how to accomplish a chorale [prelude] in all kinds of ...