Garrison Keillor's Podcast

It's the birthday of philosopher Georg Hegel (1770), whose concept of dialectic posited that all human progress is driven by the conflict between opposites.

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On this date in 1873, the St. Louis, Missouri, school board authorized the first public kindergarten in the United States, thanks to Susan Blow's activism.

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"Without language there is no poetry, without poetry there’s just talk. Talk is cheap and proves nothing." –Charles Wright, former U.S. Poet Laureate

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It was on this day in the year 410 that Rome was sacked by the Visigoths. It was the first time in 800 years that Rome was successfully invaded.

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It was on this day in 1939 that the governments of Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, shocking many American communists.

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It's the birthday of the witty Dorothy Parker (1893), who was kicked out of various institutions for offending people, and who left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It's the birthday of author Ellen Hinsey (1960), who said, "poetry is an independent ambassador for conscience: It answers to no one."

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On this day 80 years ago, Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

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It's the birthday of Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991), who created the sci-fi franchise Star Trek, which was unique in that it imagined a generally peaceful future.

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It's the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which stated that U.S. citizens' right to vote could not be "denied or abridged...on account of sex."

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