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  • Remember November

    Remember November
    2025/11/30
    November has always behaved like a month with an old soul, the sort of calendar neighbor who sits on the porch as the leaves finish falling and tells you quietly what you already know. There is more year behind us than ahead. The light is thinning. The animals have figured this out without any fuss, but people are slower on the uptake. We insist on taking stock, on telling ourselves we are ready for what comes next, even when we are not. November has always been the place where reckoning and resolve meet. The Romans sensed it. Medieval farmers sensed it. The twentieth century all but shouted it. You live long enough and you begin to see that November is not simply a matter of thirty days. It is a way of thinking.
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    4 分
  • Patrol Reports - Bonefish Strikes

    Patrol Reports - Bonefish Strikes
    2025/11/29
    The story of USS Bonefish on November twenty ninth, nineteen forty three is the kind of moment that captures the strange rhythm of submarine warfare. Long stretches of waiting and watching suddenly turn into a burst of violence that decides everything in a few minutes. Bonefish had been working her way through the Flores Sea when a thin smear of smoke on the horizon pulled the crew straight into the hunt. What followed was a disciplined stalk, a clean attack, and a hard escape under the weight of depth charges. This introduction sets the stage for the attack itself. It was a morning that began like any other, filled with routine checks and quiet tension, but it quickly became a textbook example of how a trained crew, a steady captain, and a little luck could change the course of a day. It was the silent service at its sharpest.
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    4 分
  • Astrochimp

    Astrochimp
    2025/11/29
    There are stories in the early Space Race that sit in the shadows, waiting for someone to stop and look at them with a little patience. This is one of those stories. Before John Glenn became a national hero, before America finally proved it could put a human being into orbit, a small and serious chimpanzee named Enos stepped into a cramped Mercury capsule and took the gamble first. His flight on November 29, 1961 was supposed to be a clean rehearsal for the big human moment. Instead it turned into a hard lesson about the limits of early technology and the grit of a living passenger who never understood the stakes but carried them anyway. Today we walk back through that mission and give Enos his rightful place in the long and complicated road that led the United States into orbit.
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    4 分
  • Reaching the Pacific

    Reaching the Pacific
    2025/11/28
    Here is a **150 word podcast introduction**, following all your rules: no em dash marks, proper paragraphs, warm and human centered Dave Does History tone. --- There is a point on the map where the world once seemed to split open, and the men who found it were not looking for a peaceful view. They were hungry, exhausted, and nearly out of patience when they sailed into a narrow cut in the coast of South America in October of 1520. They had spent more than a year chasing a rumor, and now the water twisted ahead of them like a riddle carved into the earth. The Strait of Magellan was not a gift. It was a test, shaped by wind, stone, and despair, and it took everything those sailors had left to thread their way through it. On today’s episode we follow them into that cold, silent corridor. It is a story of determination, fear, stubborn leadership, and the moment when a hidden doorway finally revealed the true size of the planet.
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    4 分
  • 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