Here is a little addition to our Yesteryear Listening Guide. We've looked at all our radio shows, and have grouped them into the day of the year they were broadcast. As a little bit fun we've also added some small snippets. See what was on the airwaves on your birthday, or other memorable dates in your year. Happy Listening!
On This Day:
Explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island (1722) BORN: Thomas Hobbes philosopher (1588) DIED: Kurt Cobain musician (1994)
Quote:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Fact:
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web on 25 December 1990 with the first HTTP client/server communication
Word:
horrent (adjective) Standing up like bristles, covered with bristles; bristling
Fortune Cookie:
Your skill will accomplish what the force of many cannot
Poem:
Autumn mosquitoes / Buzz me, bite me ... see, I am / Long prepared for death / (Haiku by Shiki)
Joke:
You go to a gas station, find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
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A cab driver has brought "two little brown men" out to the house... and one of them has a blowgun! Dr. Beecham mentions a "sacred emblem of the Incas" that "may save the whole human race," and then he passes out!
There's been an death on a movie set. Was it an accident or murder? Movie star Art Ingraham is thrown off his horse and drops dead on the set, while a ring disappears off his finger!
A dying man gives Diamond a newspaper-wrapped statue of "Kali" in a plot almost identical to "The Maltese Falcon!" Dick sings, "Bye Bye Baby" after the story.
Johnny's after a clever arsonist who has shot his pal Smokey. During the case, Johnny visits "Maurie Webster" at KCBS who brags that his station was "the first to broadcast in the country"
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