Interesting Things with JC

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Interesting Things with JC is a new podcast mini series, with highlight on some of the more interesting historical stories, current events as well as under-told stories.

  1. 3 小時前

    1706: "John Smeaton - The Hero of Glasgow"

    Interesting Things with JC #1706: "John Smeaton - The Hero of Glasgow"– A baggage handler runs toward a burning Jeep after it crashes into Glasgow Airport and joins travelers, airport workers, and police in stopping a terrorist attack before the explosives can cause the devastation that was intended, then spends the years that follow making sure the other people who charged in beside him are remembered too.

    3 分鐘

  2. 1 天前

    1705: "Tara Westover, the Girl Who Taught Herself to Study"

    Interesting Things with JC #1705: "Tara Westover, the Girl Who Taught Herself to Study" – Tara Westover opened an algebra book to prepare for the ACT even though she had never attended school, and each lesson she taught herself uncovered just how much of the world had been missing from her education.

    4 分鐘

  3. 2 天前

    1704: "Lincoln Wasn't the Only Target"

    Interesting Things with JC #1704: "Lincoln Wasn't the Only Target" – John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln while three other assassins moved against Vice President Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and General Ulysses S. Grant in a coordinated attempt to cripple the United States government in a single night. On July 5, 1865, President Andrew Johnson signed the order confirming the convictions of the conspirators who tried to assassinate not only Abraham Lincoln, but also the vice president, secretary of state, and commanding general in a single coordinated plot.

    3 分鐘

  4. 3 天前

    1703: "250 Years of the United States of America"

    Interesting Things with JC #1703: "250 Years of the United States of America" – On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration of Independence and ordered it printed across the colonies. That decision launched a nation that, over the next 250 years, fought for its independence, wrote the world's oldest written national constitution still in continuous use, defeated tyranny, reached the Moon, and reshaped human history.

    4 分鐘

  5. 4 天前

    1702: "July 3rd, 1776 - The Message Had to Be Perfect"

    Interesting Things with JC #1702: "July 3rd, 1776 - The Message Had to Be Perfect" – Congress was rewriting Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence after the colonies had already voted for independence, removing entire passages and reshaping its language before a single copy could be printed until the document became a statement meant for the world instead of one man's argument.

    3 分鐘

  6. 5 天前

    1701: "July 2, 1776 - The Day the Decision Was Made"

    Interesting Things with JC #1701: "July 2, 1776 - The Day the Decision Was Made" – Congress was already directing a war against Great Britain while still debating whether the colonies should become independent. On July 2, 1776, delegates voted to make independence official, then immediately turned to editing the Declaration that would explain a decision that had already been made.

    3 分鐘

  7. 6 天前

    1700: "Patriotism"

    Interesting Things with JC #1700: "Patriotism" – Americans keep serving the same country while disagreeing over what patriotism requires, and the debate has lasted from the Revolution to the present without producing a single definition.

    3 分鐘

  8. 6月30日

    1699: "Project Blue Book"

    Interesting Things with JC #1699: "Project Blue Book" – Air Force investigators keep collecting UFO reports as the unexplained cases refuse to disappear. Thousands receive ordinary explanations, but hundreds remain officially unidentified even after radar data, witness interviews, photographs, and scientific analysis are compared across seventeen years of investigation.

    8 分鐘
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Interesting Things with JC is a new podcast mini series, with highlight on some of the more interesting historical stories, current events as well as under-told stories.

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