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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1599: Urban Archaeology

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 16, 2018 · Episode: 1599 Urban archaeology: a privy provides a window to the past. Today, history in a trash bin.

Tags antebellum mansion anthropology Ashton villa brown Galveston flood George Eliot

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1362: Flying Across The Atlantic

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 21, 2017 · Episode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights. Today, we fly the Atlantic.

Tags Alcock brown lindbergh markham Ortieg ryan transportation Zeppelin

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2931: Reading Cosmo

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on April 26, 2016 · Episode: 2831 Reading the Long History of Cosmopolitan Magazine Today, a great American magazine.

Tags age american bernard brown class cosmopolitan edith g george gilded gurley h hearst helen kipling lewis magazine magazines middle of publishing randolph rudyard shaw sinclair the war wells wharton william worlds

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1090: Poe’s Conchology

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on January 15, 2016 · Episode: 1090 In which Edgar Allen Poe writes about conchology Today, an act of plagiarism is not quite what it seems to be.

Tags biology brown cuvier goldsmith gould literature mizner mollusks paleontology shells snails wyatt

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Ever Wanted to Own an Elephant Hide? Check Out the Michael Brown Auction

Michael Hagerty

Posted on January 17, 2014 · We visit Webster’s Auction Palace to learn about some of the exotic items up for sale this weekend that belonged to the late Houston hand surgeon Michael Brown. Items include numerous animal hides and 97 guns from the prolific hunter’s collection.

Tags animal auction brown Brown Hand Center elephant exotic guns hand hides hunter hunting items surgeon

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