Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
Historians are not sure who made the first cards, which stiffened a pack of cigarettes, but James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gets credit.
By 1860, Louis Prang is mass-producing small trade cards to introduce, or advertise, products.
Witnesses see a shootout which leaves Wyatt Earp, who is armed, completely uninjured.
Police find paper wrappings, cartridges, a rifle and fingerprints on the sixth floor of the Dallas School Book Depository.
After an opponent dies following a fight in 1743, John ("Jack")Broughton introduces boxing's first rules.
The Ancient Greeks support boxing as a sport when they include it in the Olympics as a early as 688 BC.
In 1935, the underdog Braddock fightschampion Max Baerfor the Heavyweight title and wins.
Mayes' Tuscan home is named Bramasole (English translation is "yearning for the sun").
The Atlantic Forest is a forest area which once covered a great part of Brazil, but most of it is now cut-down.
Tone kills himself rather than be hanged as a traitor, and becomes a martyr.
The Nobles want freedom from the Catholic Church, freedom from undue tax burdens, protection of inheritance rights and due process of law.
During World War II, Lewis hosts BBC live radio broadcasts which make his voice one of the most recognizable in Britain.
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