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Listen to the podcast episode here. The transcript is below. World War I combat veteran, 3-time winner of honors for life-saving bravery, daredevil, and riverman responsible for saving 27 lives …
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Click here to listen. Transcript below. The stories about Red Hill read like hyperbole, like Paul Bunyon or Mike Fink stories. Commended by the Canadian government for a life-saving rescue …
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Listen here. Full transcript: The audience held their collective breath as Annie Edson Taylor’s barrel fell over Niagara’s Horseshoe falls and disappeared into the mist. Then nothing, waiting, before Captain …
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Listen here. Full transcript: Annie Edson Taylor, a Victorian-era dance and etiquette teacher, strode gracefully toward the riverbank in her long black dress and wide-brimmed hat. She did her best …
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Listen here. Full transcript: This is Yuniko Harada, and this is “The Blondin March” composed by Albert Poppinberg: Blondin March Plays The betting odds had been stacked against him, and …
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Listen here. Full transcript: It’s 1862 in Sheffield, England, a city of less than 200,000 people and you are one of thousands, maybe as many as 80 thousand people, assembled …
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Listen here. Full transcript: Sam Patch, the Jersey Jumper, the Yankee leaper, reached celebrity status in the early nineteenth century for his death-defying leaps from great heights including two jumps …
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