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Radio Podcast #6 — 1896 to 1897

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean use their audio archeology skills to take you on another time travel adventure with original recordings from the distant past. This time we visit 1896 and 1897, hear the birth pangs of something not yet called ragtime, find …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 6 (1896-1897)

James and Sean use their audio archeology skills to take you on another time travel adventure with original recordings from the distant past. This time we visit 1896 and 1897, hear the birth pangs of something not yet called ragtime, find out the true origins of ‘The Laughing Policeman’ and hear some jokes so rude …

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1897 in Film

To mirror the main mix, this year we have some extra inappropriate content – irresponsible drinking, the occult, and actual sort-of porn. The Hallucinated Alchemist Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer The X-Rays The Bewitched Inn Making Sausages After The Ball Leaving Jerusalem by Railway Naval Combat in Greece Spanish Bullfight La prise de …

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Bram Stoker – Dracula

It’s been over twenty years since I last read ‘Dracula’ and I was a little surprised to find that my opinion about it this time was essentially the same. It’s 50% utterly wonderful, a wildly evocative mystery story with enough half-spoken to lead to a century of derivative works, none of which can quite capture …

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S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission

People live only 500 miles from the North Pole, so why didn’t anyone reach it until 1908? Well, it turns out there are many reasons, and a number of innovative solutions to the problems, including freezing a huge ship in the ice and letting the currents pull you across the arctic over a couple of …

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Elsewhere in 1897

Firsts The first Boston Marathon, the discovery of the electron, Kyoto University, Juventus F.C., The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, The play Cyrano de Bergerac, Aspirin, The Kinetoscope, The Tremont Street Subway in Boston – the first underground metro in North America. It began in Africa Benin is put to the torch by the British Army’s …

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