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:
Great fire of Rome Emperor Nero reportedly watches and plays lyre (64 AD) BORN: W G Grace cricketer (1848) DIED: Jane Austen author (1817)
Quote:
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! (HL Mencken)
Fact:
There are over 4,000 known minerals. About 100 are called 'common', 50 are 'occasional', and the rest are 'rare' to 'extremely rare'
Word:
remontant (adjective) Blooming more often than once in a season
Fortune Cookie:
Only love lets us see normal things in an extraordinary way
Poem:
A camellia / Dropped down into still waters / Of a deep dark well / (Haiku by Buson)
Joke:
What do lawyers use as contraceptives? Their personalities.
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Mr. Youngblood, city editor of the newspaper, asks Sam to find his missing reporter, Ray McCully, that had been doing an expose on crime. Spade finds him all right, stabbed to death!
Johnny is called in when the insurance company receives a letter from an insured’s doctor suggesting that a twenty-six year old businessman was poisoned.
Young Yorky Kelly tells Marshal Dillon that his father has been kidnapped. The old man is found out on the prairie, almost starved to death. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 15, 1958.
Overcrowding on Earth means colonizing Venus, a steaming, putrid hellhole of jungles and swamps. So how come nobody wants to go there? Story by: A.H. Phelps
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