We talk about the Belle Epoque, impressionism in music, and the composer of La Valse: Maurice Ravel.

We talk about the Lost Generation, who lived through World War I, and who included writers and artists like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali.

What do World War I and Mean Girls have in common? We continue in our series about La Valse, speaking with special guest Jeremy Moore about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, its capital city of Vienna, and their involvement in World War I.

We introduce the next series of episodes, which will provide context to Maurice Ravel's concert masterpiece, La Valse.

We discuss Abe Fortas, the fiddle-playing, deal-making Supreme Court justice who resigned in order to avoid being impeached and removed from the Court.

What's Olympus Mons?

We discuss the beautiful, mysterious, gigantic drawings on the Peruvian desert floor.

We talk about the first humans on Earth, and the mountain that sat in their background.

We mix it up, combining seven mini topics into a gallimaufry—a salmagundi—an omnium-gatherum! This macédoine of an episode featured seven unrelated but fascinating discussions. None of these brief topics could be an episode on its own, but they deserved to be heard so we created this farrago for your enjoyment.