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The date is December 4th, Wednesday, and today I’m traveling from Auckland, New Zealand to Los Angeles, California and then Los Angeles, CA to Portland, OR. Phew. This week I’ll be on hiatus, check out Monday’s episode, December 2nd for the w
Hiatus Week Day 2: A belated autumnal poem to explain the Indian Summer phenomenon. The date is December 3rd, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Auckland, New Zealand. This week I’ll be on hiatus, check out Monday’s episode, December 2
The date is December 2nd, Monday, and today I’m traveling from Port Vila, Vanuatu to Auckland, New Zealand. This week I’ll be on hiatus, which may sound ridiculous considering the number of episodes I have to catch up on, but if you then consid
The date is November 29th, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. And today is the birthday of Louisa May Alcott, American writer. Louisa May was born to a small family in 1832 in what is now Philadelphia, PA. They didn’
View this episode on our website.The date is November 28th, Thursday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. Today is Thanksgiving in America. It is a time for families and friends gather together to share a meal and spend the day
Check out this episode on our website.The date is November 27th, Wednesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. Today is the birthday of Fanny Kemble, British actress and writer. Fanny was born to an acting dynasty in 1809 and
Check out this episode on our website.Charles Schulz basically made a killing with Peanuts! A fiercely independent American surgeon shares a birthday with the cartoonist. Poem by Lewis Carroll. The date is November 26th, Tuesday, and today I’m
Check out the show's website. The date is November 25th, Monday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. On this day in 1947, Hollywood studios in Los Angeles California instituted the first blacklist. Ten writers and directors und
Check out today's episode on our website. The date is November 22nd, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. On this day in 1995, Toy Story premiered in theaters. Toy Story was the first feature-length film created complet
Don't forget to check out our website!The date is November 21st, Thursday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. Today is the birthday of Catharina Questiers, Dutch writer. Catharina was born in 1631 in Amsterdam where she lived
The date is November 20th, Wednesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. Today’s episode is brought to you by the generous, the warm-hearted, the green-thumbed Candy P. or Oregon. Today is the birthday of Selma Lagerlöf, Swed
The date is November 19th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu. Today is the birthday of Hiram Bingham III, American professor and explorer. Born in Hawaii to arguably successful missionaries, Hiram Bingham III would h
The date is November 1st, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Sydney, Australia. On this day in 1955, the Vietnam War began. It would last 19 years and be a massive stain in the history of American international affairs. It is also known
The date is October 31st, Thursday, and today I’m traveling from Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in Vietnam to Sydney, Australia. Today is Halloween for most of the globe. Halloween is typically celebrated with costume dressing, trick-or-treating, car
The date is Wednesday, October 30th, and today I’m coming to you from Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in Vietnam. Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American writer. Elizabeth grew up in Springfield, Kentucky in the late 1800s. She att
The biggest (most priceless) jewel heist happens at the American Museum of Natural History. It’s arguably also the easiest. Poem by Robert Frost. The date is October 29th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in Vie
The date is Monday, October 28th, and today I’m traveling from Vung Tau to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Today is the birthday of Edith Head, American costume designer. Prolific from the 1940s through the 1970s, Edith was nominated for 35 Acade
The date is September 10th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Tejakula, Bali. Today is also our 100th episode!On this day in 1960, Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Saharan African to win an Olympic gold medal, and the first Ethiopian g
The date is September 9th, Monday, and today I’m coming to you from Tejakula, Bali. Today is the birthday of Colonel Harland David Sanders, American businessman, founder of KFC. Sanders was born in 1890 in southern Indiana, not far from the In
The date is September 6th, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Tejakula, Bali in Indonesia. Today is the birthday of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French military leader and political influencer. Lafayette, as he is known in th
The date is September 5th, Thursday, and today I’m traveling from Jakarta to Bali in Indonesia. Today is the birthday of Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet. He enrolled at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 1765 at the age of about 15.
The date is September 4th, Wednesday, and today I’m coming to you from Jakarta, Indonesia. On this day in 1781, 44 Spanish settlers officially founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles, known today as Los Angeles, California.
The date is September 3rd, Tuesday, and today I’m traveling from Tokyo, Japan to Jakarta, Indonesia. Today is the birthday of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician. In 1922 or ‘23 at age 14, an explosion of a small cooking stove left
The date is August 30th, Friday, and today I’m traveling from Portland, OR to Los Angeles, CA. In honor of Labor Day on Monday, today we’re taking a look at how we got Labor Day. No one is sure who exactly the first person to propose the idea w
The date is August 29th, Thursday, and today I’m coming to you from Portland, OR. Today is the birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, American physician and writer.Born in 1809, he had the good fortunate to attend small but good schools in Bost
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