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"We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. It is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with the two great mysteries of creation life and death. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now's your chance to -- uh, well, we warned you." -- Prologue for 1931 film Frankenstein...

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This is from a live interview TS Eliot did for the BBC, broadcast during World War II. The original audio was pretty bad, but I cleaned it up as best I could. The thing that comes through most clearly is that nobody reads Eliot like Eliot.

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Asleep at the Wheel's beautiful live performance of the George Strait rodeo classic.

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During World War II the Saturday Evening Post was the most popular magazine in America. Its covers reflected the country's enduring committment to the war effort. These paintings are among the funniest and grittiest the Post ever published. They depict life on the Home Front, the problems of civilians adjusting to the military and vice versa, battlefield action and the machinery of war. The background music is "(There'll Be a) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" performed by Bing Crosby and the ...

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Cole Porter loved to write songs with lists of various items. "You're the Top" is probably the best known of these list songs. It was written for the Broadway show "Anything Goes" in 1934. Porter composed it during a cruise on Germany's Rhine River. He asked his fellow passengers to tell him what they considered important in their lives, or important in general, and Porter worked them into the lyric. For the record, he names an astonishing 37 persons, places and things in the course of the ...

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"I just didn't fit into the Hollywood scheme at all. I was neither a fluffy heroine, nor a wicked vamp, nor a woman of the world. I just didn't fit into any category." -- Louise Brooks. She was born Mary Louise Brooks in 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas. A professional dancer from the age of ten, her mother chopped off her beloved braids and created a hair style known variously as a pageboy, Dutch bob, Buster Brown, Prince Valiant or Cleopatra. But the newspapers of the day just called it The Look ...

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One of Roger Miller's most beautiful songs, "River in the Rain" was written for "Big River," a Broadway musical based on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain. "Big River" won seven Tony Awards, including one for Roger Miller's score.

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Cats engaging in one of their favorite activities. My own cats are here along with dozens more from all over the world. Piano solo by Mari Tsuda, performing Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1."

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For years people have been sending me funny animal pictures. This is a selection of my favorites. Banjo solo by Bill Emerson, playing "Home of the Red Fox." Enjoy.

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