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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/19

Thoughts on what we will miss in the coming days.With words from Shakespeare.The quality of mercy is not strained;It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/18

On this day in 1916, the Battle of the Somme ended.It had begun in July.And, on its first day, fifty-seven thousand British men were wounded or killed. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:13

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/16

Reading the paper on Nov. 16, 1940.In a raid the Nazi’s claimed was the ‘greatest attack in the history of aerial warfare,’ five hundred German aircraft, flying at high altitude, poured incendiary and demolition bombs over the industrial city of Coventry for more than ten hours two nights ago.The Germans claimed the Coventry attack was in retaliation for the November 8 RAF bombing of Munich while Hitler and the Nazi Brown Shirts celebrated the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putch which had catapulted

2:08

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/15

It is November 10, 1943.The Pearl Harbor attack was twenty-three months ago.And war is being fought across the globe.At present, US Marines are engaged in heavy fighting on the South Pacific island of Bougainville, after making an amphibious assault there at the beginning of the month. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:25

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/14

It is 1906.Mark Twain offers an explanation for why many people will live comfortably with the changes coming to America.Nations do not think, they only feel.They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains.A nation can be brought—by force of circumstances, not argument—to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:44

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/14

It is August 17, 1864.Young American men have been killing one another in the Civil War for more than three years at battles large and small across the middle of the country.Bull Run; Shiloh; Antietam; Vicksburg; Gettysburg; Cold Harbor.At present, Sherman’s forces are laying siege to Atlanta.And Admiral Farragut’s Union fleet is battling to capture the Confederate port at Mobile, Alabama. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:25

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/12

To fail at everything.If someone were to have written the life story of Solomon D. Butcher on the day he died in 1927, that would have been a fair statement.Nothing he tried had worked out for him.Solomon’s failures began early. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:44

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/11

A few words on disappointment.‘In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is,Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss.‘In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

6:04

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/09

Reading the paper on Nov. 9, 1944.American infantry battled German infantry and tanks in ‘savage and inconclusive fighting’ in the fifty-four-square-mile Hürtgen Forest, which straddles the border of Belgium and Germany.Across eastern France, the cold, torrential rain of the past ten days is expected to continue, further hindering the work of Allied aircraft and the advance of heavy trucks, tanks and artillery.US Army troops advanced several miles through waist-deep mud in the Lorraine region,

4:00

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/08

It is November 3, 1920, the day after the US presidential election.For the first time in eight years, Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress.Nay-sayers and obstructionists have been given the keys to the car.The First World War, which had claimed almost 117,000 Americans, is over.And the people have chosen between competing prescriptions for maintaining the peace. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:42

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/07

In 1943, a large manor house near Portsmouth, England, became the headquarters of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the Allied naval commander for D-Day.Ramsay’s job was to plan for and direct all of the vessels which would transport men and materials to the Normandy beaches.It was a huge assignment.Seven thousand ships and landing craft would be used on June 6, 1944, for the initial invasion.And thousands more vessels, loaded with men and supplies, would follow in the days and weeks to come.To aid in the

3:10

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/06

It is the spring of 1935.Thousands of farm families in the Upper Midwest are destitute and surviving on government ‘relief.’But 203 families have accepted the government’s offer of help in making a fresh start on raw land in Alaska.It means saying goodbye to everyone and everything they have ever known.But desperate times call for desperate measures. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:25

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/05

The witness treeBy the end of the afternoon on September 17, 1862, six hundred twenty men from New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia lay dead or wounded at a stone bridge spanning the Antietam Creek in southern Maryland.The carnage came as the men from New York and Pennsylvania mounted three attempts to cross the bridge as the men from Georgia, arrayed in fortified positions on the opposing hill, fired down upon them.The fight went on for hours, until the men from Georgia, badly outnumbered, ran out of

2:50

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/04

It is February 12, 1909, the one hundredth birthday of Abraham Lincoln.It is a day of national celebration.At 8:00 AM in New York City, cannon blasts from nearby military forts, battleships in the harbor and National Guard field batteries fired a birthday salute.And civil rights leader Booker T. Washington delivered an address to the Republican Club at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:22

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/03

Reading the paper on Nov. 2, 1944.British and Canadian forces attacked Walcheren Island, in the Antwerp harbor, yesterday to eliminate German coastal batteries blocking Allied use of the North Sea port.During the day, American heavy bombers targeted the Ruhr industrial area in Germany, along with rail hubs.The Army Air Forces announced it now has 74,500 aircraft of all types. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:04

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/01

It is June 1879.Ulysses S. Grant, the former president, is in Berlin on his two-year world tour.He has walked down the Unter den Linden, the wide boulevard that has long been the major street in Berlin, and through most of the city.He has received a request for a meeting from Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor, who had created a unified Germany eight years before.So, Grant walked the short distance to Radziwill Palace, the office of the Chancellor, and surprised the Palace guards. Get

4:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/31

It is Thursday, October 31, 1968.President Lyndon Johnson has called Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic presidential nominee, on the telephone.In one hour, at 8:00 PM that evening, President Johnson will announce a halt to US bombing of North Vietnam in a televised address to the nation.After five months of secret meetings in Paris, representatives of North Vietnam and the US have reached an agreement on the structure of a peace negotiation. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

3:02

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/30

It is December 8, 1941.Lucille Summers is writing to her brother, Harold, a Navy signalman aboard the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor.Dear Harold,Well, it’s come hasn’t it?Nothing else seems to matter right now, & every man on the street can talk of nothing else. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/29

It is May 1831.A young French aristocrat has come to New York City, where he will begin a nine-month tour of the new United States.The French Revolution has abolished the French monarchy and feudal system.French society continues to evolve.A new middle class is rising, bolstered by new ideas of freedom and equality.Where will these ideas lead?To gain insight, Alexis de Tocqueville has come to the place where notions of liberty and equality are forging a new nation.When he returns to France, he will

2:10

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/28

A comedy routine should make us laugh.Hollywood film stars of the 1920’s and ‘30s wrote the book on comedy.Most learned their craft during the silent film era.And in the ‘30s,they found that, when you added sound, the art of making people laugh hadn’t really changed.There are some basic rules. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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