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the Legend of Sarah Winchester

Sarah Winchester (born 1840) was the heiress to the Winchester Estate with a 50% holding of the Winchester Repeating Rifle Company. She used her vast fortune to construct a mansion for 38 consecutive years.

Popular legend held that she was cursed by all those who were killed by Winchester rifles. The only way to alleviate her suffering was to continue to add on to her mansion, filling it with strange sealed rooms and staircases and corridors leading nowhere. Pamela Haag tells her tale and gives it some meaning beyond a mere ghost story.

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Sudha Koul on Kashmir

Sudha Koul is a Kashmiri Hindu living in the United States.  Koul says her homeland is the most beautiful place on Earth.

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Stephen Elliott on the 2004 Campaign

Stephen Elliott decided to immerse himself in politics for the 2004 campaign and traveled with the Democratic candidates throughout the primaries and conventions.

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Xinran on Women in China

Xinran hosted a call-in radio program in Beijing which for eight years told the heart-rending true stories of women’s lives in China.

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What a Plant Knows - Daniel Chamovitz

Did you know plants see, smell and communicate with neighboring plants?  And have both long and short term memory?  Plant geneticist Daniel Chamovitz describes the complex world of plant life.

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William Dalrymple on Brits & Mughals

Historian William Dalrymple tells Steve Paulson that the British weren't the masters of India when they first arrived. The Mughals were.

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Rowing the Arctic - Jill Fredston

Jill Fredston has rowed more than 20,000 miles of Arctic water, along the coastlines of Alaska and Greenland and alongside whales and polar bears.

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Samuel R. Delany on "The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction"

Samuel R. Delany has been described as "American science fiction's most consistently brilliant and inventive writer."  Delany's non-fiction includes the essay collection, "The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction."  He talked to Steve Paulson about his love of language.

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