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:
Thomas Blood steals Crown Jewels from Tower of London (1671) BORN: J M Barrie author Peter Pan (1860) DIED: Tenzing Norgay sherpa (1986)
Quote:
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. (Mark Twain)
Fact:
Peter the Great, Russian Emperor, to be more "european" ordered his courtiers to remove their beards or to pay a beard tax (100 rubles)
Word:
philomath (noun) A lover of learning; scholar
Fortune Cookie:
The human spirit is stronger then anything that can happen to it
Poem:
Give place you ladies, and begone! Boast not yourselves at all! For here at hand approacheth one Whose face will stain you all (Heywood)
Joke:
We have the secret to a happy marriage twice a week we go to a nice restaurant. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
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A beautiful woman and her suspicious husband lead Rogue to yet another hit on the head, a bullet in the shoulder and a toss off a cliff. Then, the blizzard starts!
As the killer whistles, 'Comin' Through The Rye,' a husband and wife are shot after being blackmailed. Evidence points to the neer-do-well son of a banker.
A buffalo hunter named Gatliff brings a dying buffalo skinner into Dodge. His face had been pushed into a pan of hot lead! Soon afterwards, a nester is found stabbed to death.
In Commander Corry's central office at Space Patrol headquarters on Terra, Cadet Happy is checking through a file of search mission reports from the Venus command, as the Secretary-General's daughter, Carol enters..."
A lonely, broken-hearted girl, a blood-stained shirt, and a fight with a cornered rat.
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