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About 7,000 British and Australian soldiers died in the muddy fields around the French village of Fromelles during the first World War. A mass grave of 250 of those killed in 1916 was recently found near the town. Experts are now trying to identify the bodies and prepare them for burial in a new war cemetery in the heart of Fromelles.
When was the last time you actually set pen to paper and mailed off a personal letter to someone? It's probably been awhile — and the man responsible is Ray Tomlinson. In 1971, Tomlinson changed the way the world communicated when he invented e-mail.
If you've used a GPS system — or if you happen to be using the Internet to read this — you can thank DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For 50 years, the smallish, somewhat secretive division of the Pentagon has been mostly off-limits to reporters. Now author Michael Belfiore has profiled the agency in a new book.
The Arlington Ladies believe that no death should go unmourned. How do they make sure that happens? The group of women attend people's funerals, even though they don't know them. NPR's Petra Mayer caught up with a few of the ladies at Arlington National Cemetery during this week's Veterans Day celebrations.
President Obama arrived in China on Sunday, as part of his eight-day tour of Asia. NPR's Scott Horsley talks to host Guy Raz about what President Obama is expected to discuss with Chinese leaders, as well as a report on the president's talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and Iran's nuclear program.
One of television's most successful comedy writers, David Lloyd, died this week. He was 75. Lloyd wrote for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett. He penned episodes of
Cheers, Taxi, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, Wings and
Frasier. But his most memorable work may have been on
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. An episode he wrote called "Chuckles Bites the Dust" was cited by
TV Guide as the funniest sitcom episode ever.
In 1974, a group of farmers digging a well in central China stumbled upon a buried figure. It turned out to be one of an estimated 7,000 life-sized terra cotta warriors in an underground tomb complex. The warriors and a host of other figures were created for China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. Host Guy Raz drops by the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit of the figures.
According to numerous sources on the Internet, three years from now a planet called Nibiru will collide with Earth, resulting in the extinction of the human race. This and other apocalyptic myths have NASA stepping up to soothe our fears.
British author Martin Jacques witnessed the decline of the British Empire over his lifetime. He predicts that Americans will have a similar experience as the power of the United States declines in the coming years, yielding to an ever more powerful China. He discusses his new book,
When China Rules the World.
At the height of the Cold War, the television series
The Prisoner was so subversive and enigmatic, it lasted just 17 episodes. There's finally a remake, but if you're expecting a faithful re-creation of the British series, actor Jim Caviezel says you'll be disappointed.
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They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haaa! by Napoleon XIV from the album The Second Coming
You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft from the album How the Grinch Stole Christmas
All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) by Spike Jones from the album Greatest Hits
The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun by Dr. Demento from the album 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time
Who’s On First by Abbott & Costello from the album Who's On First
I Have a Dream - Washington DC 8/28/63 by Martin Luther King Jr. from the album Greatest Speeches of All Time, Vol. 1
Pioneers! O Pioneers! - "Birds of Passage" by The University Players from the album Selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
The Dongle of Donald Trefusis: Episode 1 by Stephen Fry from the album The Dongle of Donald Trefusis: Episode 1
Gabriel Iglesias by Gabriel Iglesias from the album The Best of Loco Comedy Jam Vol 1
Fish Heads by Dr. Demento from the album 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time
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