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"Damron's subtle pacing manages the tension perfectly." —AudioFile on Empire of Ice and Stone "Listen to this if you want to hear a narrator at the top of his game recount a fascinating—and at times disturbing—true story of adventure, disaster, discovery, cannibalism, and more. Will Damron...

Sky Blue Time Machine is a Coventry City podcast. Each week, Danny and Sarah work through a season of Sky Blues football — and a second one, from a different decade. Sometimes the parallel rhymes. Sometimes it doesn't. The show is the conversation about which. A KCHN Enterprises LLC production. skybluetimemachine.com

Join hosts Shelly Price and Stephanie Hubka as they take a weekly look at the facts, details, and surprises behind some of the disasters that occur at 35,000 feet.

It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urgency to get it out there, just so these adventures and tragedies will not be lost to future enquiring minds. Michael Veitch has always been a keen historian and aeroplane fanatic.

The East Anglian Traditional Music Trusts podcast, which explores folk traditions from across East Anglia, looking at dance, music and the people who continue to create it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Into the Sky is a show about the iconic Avro Vulcan XH558. In each episode you'll hear from someone close to XH558: from pilots who've flown her, to volunteers who look after her and the team who brought her back to flight. Explore the history of this magnificent aircraft, her role in the Cold War and at air displays. Learn about how she will become the centrepiece of The Vulcan Experience that includes the unique the Green Technology Hub, which will focus on aviation's contribution to greenhouse gases, and inspiring the young to help overcome the climate change challenges.

In the early 19th century passenger pigeons accounted for 25 to 40 percent of North America’s birds, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours. Although adults weighed only twelve ounces, they nested and roosted in the millions, destroying large oaks as if hit by hurricanes. Their favorite foods were the seeds and nuts of beech, chestnuts, and other forest trees, but they also raided farmers’ buckwheat, wheat, corn, and rye crops.

The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg. “Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time when mere mortals learned to fly.”—Keith O’Brien...

Master illusionist Harry Houdini perfected the suspended straitjacket escape, dangling upside-down high above roaring crowds while wrestling free from impossible restraints. Host Lucien Graves reveals the hidden mechanics, brutal physical demands, and calculated showmanship behind this death-defying spectacle that turned city streets into theaters and two minutes of struggle into cultural legend. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train", she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders.

The nineteenth century was drawing its final breaths when Amelia Mary Earhart entered the world on a warm July evening in 1897. The gas lamps of Atchison, Kansas, cast long shadows across the wraparound porch of her grandfather's stately home as the town's most prominent judge welcomed his first granddaughter. The America of 1897 still moved largely at the speed of a horse's trot, though the industrial revolution was transforming the nation at an unprecedented pace. In Atchison, a Mississippi River trading town perched high on limestone bluffs, the modern age arrived slowly, seeping in like ...

Immerse yourself in two gripping short stories set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, penned by the masterful Ambrose Bierce. The first tale follows a valiant soldier who unflinchingly obeys orders, putting his life on the line without hesitation. The second story delves into the dire consequences faced by a soldier who dozes off on guard duty—a lapse that could mean death in those tumultuous times. Narrated by Bill2147, these narratives explore themes of duty, sacrifice, and the harsh realities of war.

The wonders of the universe never seemed so close. Who named the planets? Why isn't Pluto a planet? And what's the future of space? From ancient cave paintings to flying drones on Mars, humanity's relationship with the skies has changed dramatically. Gazing at the Night Sky looks back at over 5,000 years of history, from ancient Mesopotamian astronomers to the next horizons in space travel.

NASA’s race with the Russians to land a man on the moon. The meteoric rise of the Beatles, considered by many to have revolutionized the music industry. In the postwar era, each stood as an unprecedented cultural watershed. Together they captured the heady zeitgeist of the 1960s, and ignited the imagination of - just about everyone on the planet.

The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round. But the celebration would not last: South Sudan's freedom-fighters soon plunged their new nation back into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their American backers. Drawing on extraordinary personal stories of identity, liberation, and survival, this narrative tells an epic story of paradise won and then lost. Zach Vertin's firsthand accounts, from deadly war zones to the halls of Washington power, bring listeners on an extraordinary journey into the rise and fall of the world's newest state.

“David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was.” — Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13...

Gathering more than a hundred personal narratives from Americans and from Japanese, Pacific Skies recounts a history of air combat in the Pacific theater. Together their stories express fierce individualism and resourcefulness and convey the vast panorama of war that included the skies over Pearl Harbor, Wake, and Guadalcanal and missions from Saipan and Tinian.

We research and discuss topics that we all know to exist, but never really thought about how and why they came to exist. We are both interested in history, no matter the nature of the subject's origin. We believe it is important to know about the past so that we can learn from it and prevent history from repeating itself.This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY all info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources and though each case is thoroughly researched not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research.If you are easily offended, please be warned some ...

Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart by Paul L. Briand, Jr. This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great heroines; her life was in many ways unique. She was one of a kind, and the fabric of her life was woven of strands that are rarely produced: she had an insatiable curiosity about everything in life—ideas, books, people, places, mechanical things; she loved all kinds of sports and games, especially those “only for boys”; she fidgeted with an implacable unrest to experiment, to try ...

100 Facts About the Sky