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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sandy Tolan tells Jim Fleming that he became a fan of Hank Aaron’s as a boy in Milwaukee, and was thrilled when “The Hammer” threatened to eclipse Babe Ruth’s home run record.

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Howard Axelrod was accidentally blinded in one eye in a freak accident when he was in college.  Disoriented and depressed, he retreated to an off-the-grid cabin in the Vermont wilderness.  He stayed there, alone, for 2 years.  Now he's published a memoir about his period of renunciation, "The Point of Vanishing."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.

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For Robert Farris Thompson, the most beautiful, intimate and passionate of dances is Argentine tango.

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For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.

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Steven Connor says there's much more to ventriloquism than exchanging quips with a wooden dummy.  He tells Anne Strainchamps that a lot of this history has to do with the disembodied voice.

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Philosopher Gregory Sadler has a fascinating take on the famous line from French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 play, “No Exit.”

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Tia Fuller's life is steeped in jazz.  She's a saxophone player who composes, teaches, and has several albums under her belt.  If that's not enough, she also spent five years touring the world with Beyonce's all-woman R & B band.  Her new album is called "Angelic Warrior."

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