by Paul Killebrew
Everything Everywhere Daily - The 1961 US Figure Skating Team
In 1961, the United States figure skating team was one of the top programs in the world. The year before at the 1960 Olympics, they took the gold in both the men’s and women’s competitions.
Then on February 15, 1961, the team suffered a terrible catastrophe. One which took the better part of a decade for the US program to recover from.
Learn more about Sabena Flight 548 and the fate of the 1961 US figure skating team, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Read Me a Poem - “The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga)” by Ingrid Jonker
Amanda Holmes reads Ingrid Jonker’s poem “The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga),” translated by Jack Cope and William Plomer. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Aureole
Everything Everywhere Daily - Alfred Wegner and Continental Drift
In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit into northwest Africa and Europe.
He proposed that the continents may at one time have been joined and subsequently moved.
The scientific community laughed at him and rejected his idea.
Learn more about Alfred Wegener and the theory of Continental Drift, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - To Robert Hayden
By Eduardo C. Corral
Everything Everywhere Daily - Aye, Mate! Here be Pirates!
Ahoy ye mates! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
So I be thinking tis time to talk about the pirate life and how much of the legends of the pirates be true. Did they bury their gold? Did they fly the Jolly Roger?
Did their dogs have scurvy? ...and did they really talk like this?
So join me as I cast me pod on tis episode of Arrrverything Arrrverywhere.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Heart’s Needle 5: Winter again and it is snowing
by W.D. Snodgrass
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Assassination of James A. Garfield (Encore)
At 9:30 am on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., James Garfield, President of the United States was fatally shot.
It is an event that, quite frankly, doesn’t really get the attention that other political assassinations have received. The story behind how and why it happened is as fascinating as any in American History.
Learn more about the Assassination of President Garfield and his assassin, Charles Giteau, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dail
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Audio Poem of the Day - Scallop Song
By Anne Waldman