Many of our servicemembers are laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. For Memorial Day, we tell the story of a group who makes sure every servicemember buried there is properly remembered.

Arlington Ladies make funerals a time of comfort, honor and remembrance (Military Families Magazine)

Arlington National Cemetery: Where Every Day We Remember (Library of Congress)

Today in 1951, Sally Ride was born. She was a worldwide sensation in the 1980s as the first American woman in space, but before that, she was a talented youth tennis player who once caught the attention of the legendary Billie Jean King. Plus: today is National Road Trip Day. If you’re in or around Sonoita, Arizona, check out their series of specially painted propane tanks.

20 Things You Might Not Know About Sally Ride (UC San Diego) 

Sonoita, Arizona: Painted Propane Tanks (Roadside America)

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Today in 1986, Hands Across America! People were supposed to build national unity and help those in need by linking hands in a chain that stretched from sea to shining sea. And at least some of them did. Plus: this week in 2016, a teen in the Bay Area pulled off a pretty good prank at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  

Us: What Was Hands Across America, the Creepy Event That Inspired Jordan Peele? (Vanity Fair)

This Teen Pulled Off The Ultimate Joke At An Art Gallery (Buzzfeed News)

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Today in 1879, the birthday of S.S. Adams. If you don’t know the name, you know the products: joy buzzers, sneezing powder, the dribble glass and hundreds of other novelties known all over the world all started with the S.S. Adams Company. Plus: a new website takes maps of the Roman Empire's extensive system of ancient roads and turns them into an interactive route planner. 

Remembering the S.S. Adams Company (Stuckeys)

S.S. Adams, the Original Gag Factory (NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday)

If the ancient Romans had Google Maps (Big Think)

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Sometime on this night in 1920 the president of France fell out of a moving train. And the story got weirder from there. Plus: today in 1993, the first movie ever played over the internet - though the streaming was definitely more lo-fi than what we watch today.

The Unusual French President (Danny Dutch)

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Today in 1455, it's said that the Wars of the Roses began in England. The civil wars over who should be king led to mostly battles but also the legendary story of Blanche Heriot, who found a creative way to keep her love from being executed. Plus: in 2021, artists in the Czech Republic created a crop circle in the shape of Pac-Man as a protest.

Women of Runnymede (Chertsey Museum)

Huge Pac-Man crop circle was guerrilla art protest against Czech prime minister (Boing Boing)

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This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes about some of our favorite rock musicians. In this episode from April 2022, we look back at Aerosmith's landmark album “Toys In The Attic.” One of the biggest hits from that album got its name from an unusual source - the Mel Brooks movie "Young Frankenstein." Plus: New Mexico hosts the Las Cruces Space Festival. 

How Aerosmith Created 'Walk This Way' (Wall Street Journal via Archive.org)  

Las Cruces Space Festival 

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This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes about some of our favorite rock musicians. In this episode from January 2021, we remember the time in the 90s that Pat Boone - the pop and gospel singer - made a record where he sang Hendrix, AC/DC, Deep Purple and Metallica. How did he, of all people, end up "In A Metal Mood"? Plus: heavy metal is so popular in Finland that there's even a metal band geared toward little kids! 

Pat Boone (AV Club)

Heavy metal dinosaurs rock the kiddie crowd in Finland (The Age)

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This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes about some of our favorite rock musicians. In this episode from November 2020, we look back at the time the Who's drummer, Keith Moon, collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. Amazingly, the band chose a 19 year old from the crowd, Scot Halpin, to fill in for the rest of the show. Plus: the 2020 Pasadena Doo Dah Parade isn't just irreverent, it's irreverent and virtual! 

The Hoosier That Rescued the World’s Biggest Band (Orange Bean Indiana)

Pasadena Doo Dah Parade 

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This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes about some of our favorite rock musicians. In this episode from August 2019, the story of Dee Gallant. When a cougar started walking toward her on a logging trail in British Columbia, she used the power of rock to protect herself. Plus: in a move that might make heavy metal even heavier, guitarist Takamizawa Toshihiko designs a guitar shaped like Godzilla.

Metallica responds to B.C. woman who fended off wild cougar with the band’s music (GlobalNews.ca)

A Very Resourceful Woman Scared Off a Cougar by Blasting Metallica (Noisey)

This Limited-Edition Godzilla is a Monster of a Guitar (Guitar World)

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