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The Cyle of a Cesium Atom
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/30Oct13-Atomic-Clock-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If I said I’d be back in a second, I’d literally be back in 9,192,631,770 cycles of a cesium atom. …
The Most Accurate of Clocks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/29Oct13-Atomic-Clock-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For most of human history, the movement of the sun, moon and planets has been used to measure time. But…
The Great Locomotive Chase
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/28Oct13-Great-Locamotive-Chase.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Great Locomotive Chase – an event that occurred in 1862 when a secret force of Union soldiers…
Traveling Back Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…
A Suitable Winter Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/24Oct13-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805, Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter…
Glur’s Tavern and the $1000 Bill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/23Oct13-Glurs-Tavern-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)One thousand dollar bills were last printed in 1945 and they were officially discontinued in 1969. You can still find…
A Tavern With A Storied History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/22Oct13-Glurs-Tavern-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)If you drove past Glur’s Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska you might not give it a second thought. However, if you…
The Balloon Bombs from World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/21Oct13-Balloon-Bombs.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the US mainland, yet few have heard the story about Japan’s balloon bomb and…
New Philadelphia
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/18Oct13-New-Philadelphia.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is difficult to find much of the town of New Philadelphia, Illinois. However, the town’s place in the…
The Thing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/17Oct13-Spy-Museum-The-Thing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s often referred to as simply, “The Thing.” That “thing” was a piece of equipment used to acquire secrets from…
Five Places to Find Columbus in the New World Today
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. And ever since, people have been building monuments to him. In fact, one Internet…
The Spy Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/16Oct13-Spy-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)What’s it take to become a word class spy? The answers and the job description may just surprise you. Today…
A Veteran of the CIA
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/15Oct13-Spy-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we spent time with a veteran of the CIA. In fact, he spent over two decades in clandestine operations…
Columbus’ Return in 1493
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/14Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and…
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/11Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two. But what else do you know…
1500 Years Before Christopher Columbus
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/10Oct13-St-Crois-Salt-River-Bay-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory. It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500…
Standing Watch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/09Oct13-San-Juan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years. For some of those sentry’s who scanned…
Six D.C. Sites to Visit During a Government Shutdown
I was just in the nation’s capital gathering audio for our daily broadcasts. For tourists, the government shutdown means many of the sites they planned…
A Caribbean Getaway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/08Oct13-San-Juan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are looking for a fun and relatively inexpensive Caribbean getaway, without leaving the U.S., you might consider heading…
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
