Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

June 28, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, June 28, 2020
In the early hours of this day in 1969, the Stonewall uprising broke out in New York City, marking the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement.

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5 min
June 27, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, June 27, 2020
It's the birthday of poet Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), whose career choice was inspired by the fact that her father so disapproved of her mother writing poetry.

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June 26, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, June 26, 2020
On this day 20 years ago, scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genome. One finding: the human species goes back 7,000 generations.

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6 min
June 25, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, June 25, 2020
70 years ago today, North Korea invaded South Korea. The Korean War became the first war that the United States concluded without success.

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June 24, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
It was on this day in 1374 in Aachen, Germany that an outbreak of dancing plague or dancing mania, also known as St. Vitus’ Dance, first began.

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June 23, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, June 23, 2020
It’s the birthday of Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova (1889), who spent 30 years writing her poem “Requiem” in pieces so that Stalin’s regime would not discover it.

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June 22, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, June 22, 2020
It's the birthday of Erich Maria Remarque (Germany, 1898), who is best known for his anti-war novel “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

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June 21, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, June 21, 2020
It’s the birthday of French existentialist and writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), who said, “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.”

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June 20, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, June 20, 2020
It’s the birthday of writer and activist Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858), the first black fiction writer to have his work published in The Atlantic magazine.

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June 19, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, June 19, 2020
Today is Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It’s also the anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act (1964).

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