Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio Delta College Public Radio
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- Culture et société
John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Delta College Public Radio.
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Alan Turing - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Many people contributed to the idea of a computer being a machine rather than an occupation, but the biggest leap forward came from Alan Turing.
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Michael Servetus - Out of the Flames
Authors who spread the Protestant Reformation risked censorship, imprisonment, or even death, including Michael Servetus, who was burned alive along with most copies of his book.
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John Howard Griffin - Black Like Me
In the late 1950s, white author John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a Black man to experience the state of race relations in the segregated South from the other side.
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
While Kosciuszko's family was part of Poland's upper 10%, this military leader's sympathies were for the disenfranchised.
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Hiram Bingham - Cradle of Gold
Machu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.
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Sir Thomas Browne - In Search of Thomas Browne
Return with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man responsible for bringing many of these words into the English language.