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- The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, February 13, 2021American religious historian Elaine Pagels turns 78 today. Best known for her books about the Gnostic Gospels, 13 texts found in 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Friday, February 12, 2021"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." --Abraham Lincoln, born this day 1809
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, February 11, 2021On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years of enprisonment by the apartheid government of South Africa. Four years later he was elected president.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, February 10, 2021175 years ago the Mormons headed west following Brigham Young to what would become their new home in what is now Salt Lake City.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, February 9, 2021The author of “The Color Purple,” Alice Walker celebrates her 77th birthday on this day. She once wrote, "Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Monday, February 8, 2021It’s the birthday of John Grisham (1955), who wrote his first best-seller, “The Firm,” using rules for suspense that he read about in a Writer’s Digest article.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, February 7, 2021It’s the birthday of Sinclair Lewis (1885), whose novel “Main Street” satirizing people in the Midwest caused a sensation. It made him a millionaire in 1920.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, February 6, 2021Today is the birthday of Mary Douglas Leakey (1913), who discovered fifteen new species of animal in her career as a paleoanthropologist.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Friday, February 5, 2021It’s the 85th anniversary of the opening of the last film to feature Charlie Chaplin’s character The Little Tramp, “Modern Times”(1963).
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min - The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, February 4, 2021This day marks the birth 100 years ago, and death 15 years ago, of Betty Friedan, women’s rights activist and author of “The Feminine Mystique.”
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3389445/advertisement5 min
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