Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
At the Charles A Lindbergh Historic Site, visitors learn more about the man known as Lucky Lindy at his boyhood home in Little Falls, Minnesota. Although Lindbergh was an intensely private person, he shared many personal stories with curators how his early life on a farm led to his career as a flier and, surprisingly, as an inventor.
Lindbergh kidnapping
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of well-known aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was one of the most highly publicized crimes of the 20th century. The 20-month-old toddler was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey, on the evening of March 1, 1932. Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, his body was discovered a short distance from the Lindberghs' home in neighboring Hopewell Township. A medical examination determined that the cause of death was a massive skull fracture.
After an investigation that lasted more than two years, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime. In a trial that was held from January 2 to February 13, 1935, Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936. Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence to the end.
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Prairie Pulse 1436; Melissa Baker; Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Interview with new North Dakota Parks and Recreation Director Melissa Baker. She was hired away from a parks job in Montana. She talks about her background in wildlife and the outdoors and her research, and her goals in her new job. Also, a story on the Minnesota boyhood of world famous aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Prairie Mosaic 808
2017 ND Poetry Out Loud winner from Northern Cass is featured, the Charles Lindbergh Historic Site in Little Falls, MN is featured, the history of the Mighty Rex pipe organ at the Trinity Luthern Church in Moorhead, MN is discussed, and a music video by Elisa Korenne about rootbeer maker Dorothy Molter of Ely, MN.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and by the members of Prairie Public.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
Charles Lindbergh | Wikipedia audio article
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. Lindbergh covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. This was not the first flight between North America and Europe, but he did achieve the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the Crime of the Century and was described by H. L. Mencken as the biggest story since the Resurrection. The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with their victim. By late 1935, the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist.
Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three German women (two from Bavaria, one from East Prussia) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world.
Candidates and Celebrities in 19th Century Quilts
Nineteenth century quilts often reflect women’s interests in popular culture, literature, and even politics (despite not yet having the vote!). Find out how these topics show up in American quilts of the 19th and early 20th century based on examples in the DAR Museum's exhibit “A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts.”
DAR Museum lecture
April 9, 2019
Speaker: Alden O’Brien, Curator of Costume and Textiles, DAR Museum
Note: This lecture was recorded live. We were having some issues with the microphone so the audio quality is not as high as our other videos, but we didn't want to deprive you of this one!
Long Island
Long Island is an island in the U.S. state of New York. Stretching northeast from New York Harbor into the Atlantic Ocean, the island comprises four counties, including two (Kings and Queens) that form the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, and two (Nassau and Suffolk) that are farther out on the island and mainly suburban. Although all four counties are part of the greater New York metropolitan area, the name Long Island is often reserved in popular usage for only Nassau and Suffolk counties, as distinct from those lying within New York City proper. North of the island is Long Island Sound, across which are the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
With a Census-estimated population of 7,740,208 in 2013, Long Island is the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory, and the 17th-most populous island in the world (ahead of Ireland, Jamaica, and Hokkaidō). Its population density is 5,402 inhabitants per square mile (2,086 /km2). If it were a U.S. state, Long Island would rank 13th in population (after Virginia) and first in population density.
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Douglas MacArthur | Wikipedia audio article
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Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army, and the only one conferred the rank of field marshal in the Philippine Army.
Raised in a military family in the American Old West, MacArthur was valedictorian at the West Texas Military Academy, and First Captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated top of the class of 1903. During the 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz, he conducted a reconnaissance mission, for which he was nominated for the Medal of Honor. In 1917, he was promoted from major to colonel and became chief of staff of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In the fighting on the Western Front during World War I, he rose to the rank of brigadier general, was again nominated for a Medal of Honor, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven times.
From 1919 to 1922, MacArthur served as Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he attempted a series of reforms. His next assignment was in the Philippines, where in 1924 he was instrumental in quelling the Philippine Scout Mutiny. In 1925, he became the Army's youngest major general. He served on the court martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In 1930, he became Chief of Staff of the United States Army. As such, he was involved in the expulsion of the Bonus Army protesters from Washington, D.C. in 1932, and the establishment and organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He retired from the US Army in 1937 to become Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines.
MacArthur was recalled to active duty in 1941 as commander of United States Army Forces in the Far East. A series of disasters followed, starting with the destruction of his air forces on 8 December 1941, and the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese. MacArthur's forces were soon compelled to withdraw to Bataan, where they held out until May 1942. In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area. Upon his arrival, MacArthur gave a speech in which he famously promised I shall return to the Philippines. After more than two years of fighting in the Pacific, he fulfilled that promise. For his defense of the Philippines, MacArthur was awarded the Medal of Honor. He officially accepted Japan's surrender on 2 September 1945 aboard USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, and oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. As the effective ruler of Japan, he oversaw sweeping economic, political and social changes. He led the United Nations Command in the Korean War with initial success; however, the controversial invasion of North Korea provoked Chinese intervention. Following a series of major defeats he was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman on 11 April 1951. He later became chairman of the board of Remington Rand.
The First Man on the Moon: Why Neil Armstrong?” Dr. James Hansen
August 3, 2017 The First Man on the Moon: Why Neil Armstrong?”
Dr. James Hansen
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards California
Of all the Apollo astronauts, why was Neil Armstrong chosen to command Apollo 11 and also become the first astronaut to step out onto the lunar surface? In the process of answering this question, Dr. Hansen also examined important aspects of Armstrong's life story, a life that began quietly in small-town America and developed into his celebrated career as a naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and pioneering astronaut. Dr. Hansen explores the question of the complex legacy left by this reluctant hero and first man on the Moon.
Speaker: Dr. James Hansen
FIRST MAN (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 2012) by Dr. James Hansen is the only authorized biography of Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon. The book spent three weeks as a New York Times Bestseller and garnered major book awards including the AIAA’s Eugene E. Emme Astronautical Prize, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Gardner-Lasser Literature Award, and CHOICE magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book.
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This shit's got to go! (subs) - Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project
Jacque Fresco talks about his young years, how he became the way he is, about spirituality, about Great Depression, about how he met Peter Joseph and why this shit's got to go!
Original footage was shot by Charlie Veitch.
The film is edited by Igor Mukhin.
3D-Images at the end done by Andrew Buxton from designs of Jacque Fresco.
Music at the end is by Ronald Jenkees - Stay Crunchy (Wolf-e-Wolf Dubstep Remix)
The Venus Project
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Videos we recommend:
* Jacque's lecture in Stockholm
* Visiting The Venus Project Part 1
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If you do nothing, I assure you, nothing will happen Jacque Fresco
Prairie Pulse 1424: Tom Isern
Interview with longtime NDSU History professor Tom Isern, now Distinguished University Professor, about his PlainsFolk columns, research in New Zealand, the many books he's written, and his love of the northern plains.
Society of Geographers: For Women Who Know No Boundaries
This all-day conference explored the contributions women have made to the field of geography and inspired participants to consider how women strengthen the practice of geography today through a series of illustrated presentations and En-Lightning Talks by some of the leading experts in the field including Nancy Lewis, Kavita Pandit and Susan Shaw.
For transcript and more information, visit
The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly & the Manhunt That Changed the Nation
1933 has been called The Year of Fear for good reason. Prohibition had led to a precipitous rise in crime, and some of the nation's most infamous criminals engineered a string of mayhem and lawlessness such as America had never seen. When Prohibition was repealed that year, these criminals looked elsewhere for sources of easy cash.
George Machine Gun Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, set their sights on kidnapping. Their target was oilman Charles Urschel. Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover, in desperate need of a successful prosecution to impress the new administration and save his job, gave his agents the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines. When Kelly bungled the kidnapping, Hoover sensed his big opportunity. The criminals were chased 20,000 miles over the backroads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines and generating headlines along the way.
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MD International (Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, 1958)
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon introduces this film, which outlines the work of American physicians abroad. In Pusan, Korea, the work of the Catholic order of the Maryknoll Sisters in operating a clinic in the slums and visiting the sick in their homes is shown. On an island near Hong Kong, Drs. Olaf Skinsons, Neil Frazer, and Douglas Harmon work with lepers. In the Sarawak town of Kapit in Malaysia, Dr. Harold Brewster works with a tribe of former headhunters whose major health problems are malaria, tuberculosis, intestinal parasites, and dysentery. Dr. Brewster and his staff are shown traveling by longboat to live for three or four days at a time in the long houses of the natives, to treat them and attempt to teach them basic hygiene. In Rangoon, Burma, Dr. Phillips Green works in the Rangoon General Hospital as an orthopedic surgeon. In Kathmandu, Nepal, Dr. Bethal Fleming describes her work in a hospital she helped to establish. In Tensin, Nepal, a remote Himalayan village, Dr. Friedrick operates a small hospital, examines school children outdoors, and travels by horseback to an even-more remote villages to inoculate residents against plague. In Beirut, Lebanon, the programs of the medical school of the American University of Beirut are outlined. The students are shown doing fieldwork in a Lebanese village. In Ethiopia, health centers are set up to train workers, treat patients, and eradicate mosquitoes. Dr. Arthur Curtis examines patients in an outdoor clinic. Well-drillers are shown. In Vellore, India at the Christian Medical College, Dr. Ida Scutter speaks to students, and students operate a mobile clinic. Dr. Victor Rambo treats eye diseases in eye clinics all over India. Shots include: Korean marketplace and city streets; lepers being treated; Nepalese marketplace and village; bearers carrying equipment over rough Nepalese terrain; an American psychiatric ward; an Indian village and scabies clinic; lepers exercising their hands; patients after cataract operations in an Indian clinic.
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The Eye of Judgment (PS3, Card Battle) [Part 2] Later: PSXplosion #200 Rhapsody [Part 3]
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Anna Ogier-Bloomer - Feminist Artist & Photographer
Anna Ogier-Bloomer (b. 1983, Hartford, CT) was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a feminist artist and photographer whose work has been published widely online, including Feature Shoot, Refinery29, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, BUST, among others. She was a feminist-in-residence at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ, where she spoke on a panel titled Grab Back: Taking Back Power Through Art. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including the Awesome Foundation, Chashama and CSArts Cincinnati, and awards from Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibitions include Wellesley College, The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bridge Art Fair in Miami/Basel, The Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts and numerous galleries. Ogier-Bloomer holds an MFA in Photography & Related Media from Parsons School of Design and a BFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University. She serves on the graduate faculty at the School of Visual Arts. Ogier-Bloomer currently lives in New York City with her husband and daughter, and travels often for her work.
History of women in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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This is a piece on history of women in the United States since 1776, and of the Thirteen Colonies before that. The study of women's history has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and courses in schools and universities. The roles of women were long ignored in textbooks and popular histories. By the 1960s, women were being presented as successful as male roles. An early feminist approach underscored their victimization and inferior status at the hands of men. In the 21st century writers have emphasized the distinctive strengths displayed inside the community of women, with special concern for minorities among women.