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  • Lancashire Day

    Lancashire Day
    2025/11/27
    There is a certain kind of pride that lives deep in the bones of Lancashire, the sort that does not care what the mapmakers in London dream up or how many times someone redraws a boundary line. Lancashire Day, celebrated every November twenty seven, brings that pride to the surface. It is a moment when town criers step forward, voices rise in old familiar words, and people across the world lift a glass to the Duke of Lancaster. The whole thing feels older than the stones of Lancaster Castle and somehow just as steady. Today we are taking a walk through the history behind this tradition, from Edward I’s Model Parliament to the stubborn survival of the County Palatine. Along the way we will talk food, land, identity, and the red rose that refuses to wilt. This is Lancashire Day, the way history remembers it, and the way Lancastrians still live it.
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    5 分
  • The Great Kansas–Arkansas Pronunciation War

    The Great Kansas–Arkansas Pronunciation War
    2025/11/26
    My father’s family is from Kansas. My mother’s family is from Arkansas. Two states, two names that look almost identical on a map, yet nobody outside the region ever pronounces both correctly on the first try. One is KAN-zoss, crisp and complete. The other is AR-kan-saw, with that final s locked in a vault somewhere near Versailles. The difference comes from the same Native tribes, the same Siouan root word, and two separate crews of French explorers who couldn’t agree on spelling three hundred years ago. Kansas kept the English habit of saying every letter. Arkansas kept the French habit of pretending the last one doesn’t exist, then passed a law in 1881 just to make it official. This is the whole ridiculous, fascinating story: the rivers, the fur traders, the legislative pettiness, and why, to this day, saying either name wrong in the wrong state can still start a fight. Welcome to the show. Let’s finally settle why Kansas and Arkansas refuse to sound alike, and why we all have France to blame.
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    2 分
  • The Real Artemas Ward

    The Real Artemas Ward
    2025/11/26
    Artemas Ward is one of those figures the Revolution seems determined to hide behind a curtain. Everyone knows Washington arrived in Cambridge to take command of the Patriot army. Almost no one remembers the man already holding the lines, organizing the chaos, and keeping the British bottled up long enough for Washington to have something to command. That man was Artemas Ward of Shrewsbury, a careful New England general shaped by Puritan discipline, battlefield lessons, and a stubborn commitment to doing things the right way even when no one was watching. In today’s episode we dig into the true story of the first commander who stood between the Revolution and collapse. Ward never chased glory. He built the structure that saved the cause. We will explore his rise, his conflicts, his quiet victories, and the long fight his family waged to make sure history finally said his name out loud. It is time to bring him into the light.
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    7 分
  • DDH - Vandalia

    DDH - Vandalia
    2025/11/25
    This week’s podcast opens with a grievance from the Declaration of Independence that rarely gets its share of attention. It sounds simple on the surface. The king tried to prevent the population of these states. Once you start looking at what that actually meant in 1776, the scene becomes far more vivid. It meant blocked land grants, stalled settlements, and a crown that wanted fewer colonists wandering past the Appalachians. The conversation walks through the almost forgotten plan to create a fourteenth colony named Vandalia. It highlights how close it came to becoming a real place and how British policy crushed it before the first surveyor’s stake ever touched the ground. The story reaches forward to West Virginia’s modern Vandalia Gathering and its liars contest, a reminder that traditions often grow from broken promises. The past has a long memory. This episode shows why that memory still matters today.
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    32 分
  • Fort Duquesne

    Fort Duquesne
    2025/11/25
    November 25, 1758. A cold rain falls on the forks of the Ohio. Exhausted British and provincial soldiers, expecting a final desperate battle, instead find only smoking ruins where Fort Duquesne stood the day before. The French have blown up their own magazines and vanished up the Allegheny River in the night. No flags are struck. No volleys are fired. Yet in that quiet moment the strategic heart of North America changes hands forever. This is the story of the Forbes Campaign, a six-month ordeal of axes, frostbite, and forced marches that finally broke French power in the Ohio Country. Led by a dying Scottish general and a Virginian colonel who had first tasted defeat on these same rivers four years earlier, a hybrid army cut a new road across the Alleghenies and forced the French to destroy the fort they could no longer hold. What followed was not just the birth of Fort Pitt and the city of Pittsburgh, but the opening of the American interior. This is how the continent’s future was decided, one muddy mile at a time.
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    4 分
  • WTF - Hawaiin Hallmark

    WTF - Hawaiin Hallmark
    2025/11/25
    The new episode of What The Frock opens with the familiar sound of two men who have seen enough of life to laugh at it without hesitation. Rabbi Dave is finally free of his shoulder sling. Friar Rod is back from Hawaii with a cold, a lighter wallet, and a renewed respect for the price of eating anything within sight of a beach. Together they settle into their chairs and start peeling back the strange layers of the week. The conversation moves from submarines and warm Pacific water to Bill Belichick’s new role as the country’s most unlikely reality figure. It turns out that a legendary coach, a very young girlfriend, and a loud podcaster can create more chaos than a blown coverage in the fourth quarter. From there the guys dig into the debate over unlawful orders, the burden placed on service members, and the political noise swirling around it all. It is sharp, funny, skeptical, and honest. In other words, it is What The Frock.
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    1 時間
  • The Lgend of DB Cooper

    The Lgend of DB Cooper
    2025/11/24
    Thanksgiving Eve, 1971. While most Americans were carving turkeys or stuck in holiday traffic, a quiet man in a cheap suit and clip-on tie walked up to the Northwest Orient counter at Portland International Airport, paid twenty bucks cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle, and boarded Flight 305 like he belonged there. He gave his name as “Dan Cooper.” Nobody thought twice about it.
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    3 分
  • Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple

    Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple
    2025/11/23
    Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: John Milton’s Areopagitica, published on November 23, 1644, is the single most important prose defense of free speech ever written in the English language. Full stop. Nothing else comes close. Not Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration, not Mill’s On Liberty, not even Holmes’ Abrams dissent. Those are all brilliant, but they’re footnotes to Milton. Areopagitica is the headwaters.
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    3 分