{"id":872,"date":"2020-08-05T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rspradio1.com\/?page_id=872"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:52:25","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rspradio1.com\/?page_id=872","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here we bring you the fascinating world of history: U.S. history; archeological, anthropological, natural, and evolutionary history; plus historical figures and military history. To know where we are going we must first understand where we have been.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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America\u2019s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation\u2019s \u2018Greatest Flop.\u2019 What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Meilan Solly \/ America’s 250th Anniversary<\/a> \/ A Smithsonian<\/strong> magazine<\/em> special report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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A century ago, the first visitors to Philadelphia\u2019s Sesquicentennial International Exposition<\/a>\u2014held to mark the 150th anniversary of the United States\u2019 founding\u2014waded through mud<\/a> and wandered along unpaved sidewalks<\/a> to reach the heart of the fairgrounds, only to find carpenters still at work on half-finished exhibition halls and gaping holes marking the spots where attractions had yet to be built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dining and shopping options were limited, and some of the few exhibits on view stretched the very definition of \u201centertainment.\u201d One was a model Post Office where \u201cyou could go send yourself a letter and watch it get canceled,\u201d says historian Thomas H. Keels<\/a>, author of Sesqui! Greed, Graft and the Forgotten World\u2019s Fair of 1926<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThat was it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 200,000<\/a>-plus Shriners<\/a> in town for their fraternal organization\u2019s national convention<\/a> realized that their parades and rallies were the main events planned for these early…Read more, see photos and video here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Reinventions of the White House Lawn: Playground, Pasture, Stage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Laura Studarus – history.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Every so often, the White House<\/a> transforms its South Lawn into something unexpected. While best known as the backdrop to American political power, the grounds have doubled as high-stakes playing fields and performance spaces for over a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From \u201cscandalous\u201d pop concerts to full-scale youth baseball diamonds, the South Lawn has frequently been dug up, relined and reinvented in the name of recreation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family-Friendly Fun: <\/strong>In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson<\/a> opened the White House lawn for the first major holiday celebration<\/a> at the executive mansion. He invited the U.S. Marine Band to perform, a group Jefferson affectionately dubbed \u201cThe President\u2019s Own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party was revolutionary for its era. Jefferson\u2019s presidential predecessors George Washington<\/a> and John Adams<\/a> were strict Federalists and believed informal protocol. Jefferson, a …Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Archaeologists Have Found Something Unexpected Inside a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Stephan Blum, University of T\u00fcbingen, and Stefan Baumann, KU Leuven – ScitechDaily<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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An Iliad<\/em> fragment discovered inside an Egyptian mummy shows how Homer\u2019s influence extended across Roman culture, from imperial identity and education to everyday life in Roman Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer\u2019s Iliad. It wasn\u2019t placed beside the body but inside the mummy\u2019s abdomen<\/a>. But the real surprise isn\u2019t just where the fragment was found. It\u2019s how it got there. To understand, we must go back\u2014to the Iliad itself and to what it became in the Roman world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Iliad, a poem shaped in the 8th century BC and attributed to Homer, the Trojan War does not end in triumph or renewal. It ends in devastation. The poem closes at the edge of collapse, with Troy reduced to a landscape of heroic ruin. Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theodore Roosevelt Survived an Assassination Attempt Because a Speech Tucked Inside His Pocket Slowed the Bullet. He Insisted on Delivering His Remarks Anyway
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Ellen Wexler \/ Smithsonian <\/strong>magazinre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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When Theodore Roosevelt<\/a> took the stage on October 14, 1912, he was carrying an eyeglasses case<\/a> and a typed manuscript in his vest pocket. The steel case was dented, and each folded page was punctured with two round holes. The cause of the damage was a bullet, which was now lodged inside the 26th president\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFriends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible,\u201d Roosevelt told the crowd<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former president reached inside his vest and removed the 50-page manuscript, holding it up before his audience. The papers, he explained, had slowed the bullet, which broke one of his ribs. But it hadn\u2019t hit any vital organs, instead stopping near his right lung<\/a>. \u201cThe bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I will try my best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assassination attempt<\/a> took place just weeks before the presidential election. Roosevelt, who was running as a third-party<\/a> candidate, was about to deliver a campaign speech in…Read more, and see photos here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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