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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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Tim Gallagher on Falcon Fever

Tim Gallagher's hunting companion isn't his neighbor down the street, its a falcon named MacDuff. He tells us why he's fascinated by birds of prey.

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Tracy Daugherty on Author Donald Barthelme

Tracy Daugherty talks about Donald Barthelme and his passion for jazz.

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Scott Topper on the Power of Films

Writer Scott Topper provides a commentary on the power of films on the minds of film-goers.

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Simon Conway Morris on the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Renowned British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris believes human-like intelligence was the inevitable outcome of the appearance of life on earth.

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Steve Paulson Reports on Edward Abbey

Steve Paulson prepared this report on the life of Edward Abbey, who's book changed the way people thought about the earth.

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Susan Braudy on Kathy Boudin and the Weathermen

Susan Braudy is the author of “Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left.”  The book tells the story of Kathy Boudin, daughter of famous lefty lawyer Leonard Boudin.

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Ward Cunningham on "The Wiki Way"

Before there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham.  He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki.

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