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History Matters: Hyman Lipman’s Last Laugh
This week in history: an inventor cashes in on his greatest invention – just in time for the patent to be rescinded. Also: the U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia, the Fifteenth Amendment advances in…
History Matters: Saint Patrick, Mister Rogers, and Sergeant Stubby
This week in history: Scott and Aaron remember St. Patrick and Mr. Rogers – as well as a dog who became celebrated as a World War I hero. Also: Johnny Appleseed spreads fruit (and liquor) across…
History Matters: Telephones To Help The Deaf?
This week in history: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone; Juliette Low founds the Girl Scouts; the “Spanish” flu epidemic begins (actually in Kansas); and attorney Ben Ferencz brings the…
History Matters: Tenez!
This week, Scott and Aaron look back on the etymological origin of the word “tennis” and the invention of the modern dishwasher. (Both of which come about because of other significant inventions, as…
History Matters: If You’ve Ever Been Subject To Long, Rambling Speeches
This week in history: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina helps spark the Revolutionary War. Also: the derisive word “bunk” is coined in response to a long, rambling speech from a…
History Matters: Godspeed, Enos
This week in history: legendary astronaut John Glenn orbits the earth – with the help of a chimp named Enos. Also: social reformer Lugenia Hope advances the early civil rights movement; French…
History Matters: One-Hit Wonders, Civil Rights, and Speaking Truth to Power
This week in history: Grant Wood and Abraham Lincoln are born, Lincoln poses for a famous portrait, and Nelson Mandela is released from prison. Also: a horrific racist incident in South Carolina in…
History Matters: Signs of Spring
This week in history: two trailblazing 19th-century female doctors, the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote, an extended Christmas celebration, the midpoint between winter and spring –…
History Matters: Anyone Can Stand Up
This week in history: Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, and the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-in begins. Also: Harry Truman proclaims February 1 as National Freedom Day; an iceberg is…
History Matters: Saying the Unpopular Thing
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was this week – a reminder that social movements are rarely, if ever, popular in their own time. Also: Scott and Aaron look back on the first Winter Olympics, the passage…
History Matters: Michael King Day?
This week, Scott and Aaron remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – who was actually born Michael King before a trip to Germany inspired his father to change his name. Also: Lumbee Indians fight back…
History Matters: Four Freedoms, Fannie Farmer, and Libba Cotten’s Devious Scheme
This week, Scott and Aaron remember Carrboro music legend Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten – who might have lived and died in obscurity, were it not for one chance meeting with a famous family. Also: Fannie…
History Matters: Bell of Rights Day
This week, Scott and Aaron remember the 234th anniversary of the 1791 ratification of the Bill of Rights – which Scott celebrates each year with a bell-ringing ceremony in Hillsborough. Also: the…
History Matters: There Were Bells on a Hill
This week in history: Brian Epstein becomes the Beatles’ manager, and the Bill of Rights becomes part of the Constitution. (Scott takes that opportunity to promote a bell-ringing ceremony he hosts…
History Matters: Always Fun To Do The Impossible
This week in history: Walt Disney is born, Rosa Parks takes a seat for justice, and a chimpanzee blazes a trail to space. 97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news…
History Matters: What The Cat Dragged In
This week in history marks the debut of two famous mice: Mickey Mouse in 1928, and the computer mouse in the late 1960s. Also: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address – and issues a…
History Matters: Flying Off In Your Stupid Biplane
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a pioneering woman aviator, the invention of the grocery cart, and the largest iceberg ever spotted. Also: trailblazing 19th-century journalist Nellie Bly goes…
History Matters: The Backboard Story
This week in history: James Naismith invents basketball, to help combat a rash of juvenile delinquency. (Kids today are not more unruly or disrespectful than previous generations, and don’t let…
History Matters: Liberty Still Has a Pulse
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a mock funeral for “liberty” that Wilmingtonians staged in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act. Also: A French doctor sails across the Atlantic for mental health…
History Matters: The Most Bravest, Gutsiest Bunch
This week in history: North Carolina women publicly stand up to Great Britain in 1774, in a boycott called the “Edenton Tea Party.” Also: the United Nations charter takes effect, thanks to the…
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