This podcast, Myths and Movies, is about Greek myths and select movie(s) that have been based upon them. In this first episode, I discuss the myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of King Agamemnon of Argos. The literature I draw from is called Iphigenia At Aulis, an unfinished play by Euripides, and the movie that I draw from is the 1977 Greek film Iphigenia.
It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit. But it was on the most awful day of that awful time, on the day when ruin and disaster came so near that their shadow fell over London far away; and, without any certain news, the hearts of men failed within them and grew faint; as if the agony of the army in the battlefield had entered into their souls.
Adaptation of Folk Song The Big Rock Candy Mountain By Harry McClintock.
Adaptation by Sarah Quinata
This episode of It’s Vegas Baby Jessica Salinas gives her audience the details on the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. The beginning of the city was the creation of mob ties with Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel.
Back to the Past, Present, and Future is not just a history show, it’s a remembrance show. Join Shane Thomas as he picks a specific decade and analyzes that periods most infamous events and talks about how they didn’t just affect that period in history, but ended up affecting time from then on. Sure enough, by the time you finish each episode, you will walk away with a new view on history that you never thought you would’ve had before.
So Click, Tap, whatever you want to call it, and sit back as we tear apart a particular section of history that could help explain some of what occurs in the events of today. You will be surely surprised with what you learn. Stay tuned to Back to the Past, Present, and Future!
Jay Bridgeman retells the story of John Henry. According to folklore, he battled a machine to see who could build faster.
Recovering History - A podcast about events or instances in the past that we either forget or never learned about. Events like Oliver Cromwell sending Irish people to the Caribbean Islands in the 1650s to the forgotten Presidency of Warren G. Harding. You’ll only get it here on Recovering History, with Brandon McDermott.
Take a trip through Omaha's seedy past as Marin Krause explores the history of how one woman intertwined business savvy with the grit of hard living in the historic Midwest.