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:
Igor Sikorsky flies 1st single-rotor helicopter (1940) BORN: Gabriel Fahrenheit inventor (1686) DIED: Nicolaus Copernicus astronomer (1543)
Quote:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (B. Franklin)
Fact:
Crocodiles are more closely related to birds and dinosaurs than to most other reptiles
Word:
requite (verb) 1: To repay, or return for 2: To avenge, or retaliate
Fortune Cookie:
Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals
Poem:
Chloe's a Nymph in flowery groves, A Nereid in the streams; Saint-like she in the temple moves, A woman in my dreams. (D'Urfey)
Joke:
My wife told me the car wasn't running well, there was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was, and she said 'the lake'
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Despite Clark Kent's warning, Governor Carson is determined to attend the opening of the Buffalo Hills statues. Pete Flores plans to dynamite the mountain right onto the governor. Superman to the rescue, but too late...well, almost! The last episode of the adventure.
The mayor's son has been kidnapped, can nothing save the city from this criminal scum? The Blue Beetle is almost roasted by an electric ray gun! - What is behind the series of explosions plaguing the city? The Octopus strikes!
Gangster Eddie Mills has been shot and killed, despite his hiring a body guard. An organ-grinder could provide a clue to the crime, but he's been murdered too!
A good story about a mad wine collector reliving the horror story of Edgar Allen Poe.
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