John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Delta College Public Radio.
Do you have questions about space, time and the nature of the universe? Join Aurelian Balan, Delta College associate professor of physics, as he uses astronomy and physics to help answer your questions while diving into some amazing topics.
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Delta College history faculty share key moments in time that help us understand who we have been and who we are today. From Q-90.1 FM, Delta College Quality Public Radio.
Is it possible that The Iliad and The Odyssey, with over 25,000 lines between them, originated in oral tradition rather than written texts? This is the story of a young Classics student who set out to prove it.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, who created a refuge for famous figures escaping World War ll.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
While the Hubble Space Telescope continues to operate, NASA, The European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency have collaborated to build, launch, and successfully deploy the most powerful and complex space telescope ever built.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
There are a few misconceptions and many mesmerizing details about the nature of Polaris, also known as the North Star.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, Part 2
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The second part of our review of His Excellency, George Washington.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, Part 1
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After 13 years of this program, we are finally getting around to the first and most important leader in American history.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
We think of the speed of light as almost instantaneous, but compared to the vastness of space, light is slow.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
The first person to attain the grand status of rocket scientist was Robert Goddard, a pioneer who laid the groundwork for space travel.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
The name of Hatshepsut, a woman who declared herself king of Egypt, was scratched out of the hieroglyphics, but her story is told in this week's biography.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
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Trial lawyers are popular protagonists in TV and movies, but few are celebrated in biographies, except for Clarence Darrow.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
You've likely never heard of General Alexandre Dumas, but his life served as inspiration for the swashbuckling adventure stories written by his famous son.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph is of a weather-beaten migrant mother whose face is burned into the American soul.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
An immigrant peddler's son, Julius Rosenwald headed to Chicago and eventually became the head of one of the most successful companies in the world.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Lionel Logue - The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
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Would you be interested in a biography of the world's most famous speech therapist, a man you may already be familiar with?저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Raymond Chandler - The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank McShane
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America's take on the detective novel gave us hard-boiled figures like Raymond Chandler's gumshoe Philip Marlowe.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach: Everyman's Library by Peter Washington
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Bach is the grandmaster of German baroque, but so little is known about Bach's life that after his death, he almost disappeared!저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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James McNeill Whistler - Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake by Daniel E. Sutherland
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One of the world's most famous paintings is "Whistler's Mother" by James McNeill Whistler, except that it isn't, even though she is.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Ibn Battuta - The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Abridged and Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Shortly after the time of Marco Polo, another traveler from Morocco set out on the Hajj to Mecca and ended up traveling to many more places.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Thomas Jefferson - Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson by Hugh Howard
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Some lives can't be squeezed into a single book, so it's nice to find a biography that focuses on an aspect of a life.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
When the Pullman Company responded to the depression of the 1890s by laying off workers and cutting wages, the workers went to the picket lines.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Painted Cousins: Dido Elizabeth Belle & Lady Elizabeth Murray
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Most Americans get through the year without reading a single poem, even though millions of them were raised on the work of America's most successful poet.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology by Constance McLaughlin Green
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Every American schoolchild could tell you that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, but he did so much more.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
This Moment In Time takes us to the end of the Cold War with the history of one of the most popular video games of all time.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Nintendo faced an uphill battle when they brought their Famicom system over to the U.S. as the NES.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Every day, the Earth receives enough energy from the Sun to meet our energy needs for a year, thanks to nuclear fusion.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
The night sky is likely to get a lot more dynamic in the coming years because of companies looking to get into the space Internet business.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Wallace and William Goodridge were African American photographers whose work captured scenes of late 19th century Saginaw.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
In May of 1893, a fire destroyed over 250 homes on Saginaw's east side.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Go back to 1837 to flip through the pages of Saginaw's first newspaper.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Solomon Northup was a free man in New York who was kidnapped, sold, and resold as a slave for 12 years in the plantations near New Orleans.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Amelia Earhardt wrote only one book about herself and the flight that made her famous.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
For 400 years or more after the Norman Conquest, England's kings were also lords of French lands.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Britain & Europe, Pt. 3 - I, for One, Welcome Our New Norman Overlords
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Britain has never been isolated from the rest of Europe, particularly not in the Middle Ages.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
The popular view of the Angles and Saxons is not supported by serious historians today.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Most of the thinking behind Brexit is based on assumptions that Britain is an island and fundamentally different from mainland Europe.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Earth has one of the largest moons in the Solar System, even compared to the massive outer planets. How did Earth get such a massive moon?저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Learn the difference between these two tests, what they do, and what kind of exposure you get from them.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
Voltaire was born on the brink of the Age of Enlightenment and became the star of that era.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX
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Alfred the Great - Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics)
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Over 1,000 years ago there lived an English king who was not supposed to be king, but he turned out to be perhaps the most important ruler in British history.저자 Q-90.1 FM WUCX