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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/26

Reading the paper on Oct. 26, 1942.In intense fighting in El Alamein, Egypt, yesterday, British ground forces, supported by Allied aircraft, broke through gaps in Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s defensive ‘steel wall’ of dense mine fields, concealed artillery and machine gun nests, and anti-tank obstacles, clearing a path for British tanks which, until now, had been held in reserve.Among the Allied forces at El Alamein are troops from Britain’s 51st Highland Division, whose fighters, famous for their

2:43

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/25

To do the right thing.It is November 1968.North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive, launched in January against one hundred cities and villages in South Vietnam, has ended in military failure.They conquered no South Vietnamese territory and their losses, including those of their Viet Cong allies, number in the tens of thousands.The North Vietnamese Army has retreated to Cambodia, a neutral country, which it uses as a safe haven and logistical hub.And the US Navy commander in South Vietnam, Bud Zumwalt, wants

4:55

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/24

A day in the life.It is Wednesday, July 2, 1862.This is what President Abraham Lincoln did today.One — Lincoln decided that enslaved people who have escaped from their plantations and arrived at Union military camps cannot be sent back to their enslavers.His decision is at odds with the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, a compromise measure between Northern and Southern factions in Congress. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:00

Photo of the Day

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2024/10/23

“Stick him.”It is October 25, 1962, the tenth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis.The US has obtained photos of Soviet offensive missile installations arrayed along Cuba’s northern coastline taken by U-2 high altitude surveillance flights and low-level US tactical fighter aircraft.The Kennedy Administration believes that some of these missiles are operational and has called for their immediate removal. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/22

To be a progressive.It is February 21, 1912.Theodore Roosevelt, the former president, is in Columbus, Ohio, to address delegates who are drafting a new state constitution.In recent weeks, the public has learned that Roosevelt intendsto challenge the current president, William Howard Taft,his chosen successor,for the 1912 Republican presidential nomination at the party’s summer convention. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

0:47

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/21

A fall poem.When the frost is on the punkinand the fodder’s in the shock,And you hear the kyouck and gobbleof the struttin’ turkey-cock,And the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin’ of the hens,And the rooster’s hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;O, it’s then’s the times a feller is a-feelin’ at his best,With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock,When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the

6:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/20

Reading the paper on Oct. 19, 1944.American, British, Canadian and French forces advanced east towards Germany yesterday, establishing positions which could serve as ‘springboards for a winter advance into Germany once the ground freezes,’ the Supreme Allied headquarters said.American forces continue their work to clear remaining German forces from Aachen and Metz while British and American fighter bombers took advantage of a break in the weather to bomb German rail lines.Near Metz, a

2:05

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/18

The veteran soldier.A passage from Stephen Vincent Benét’s epic poem about the American Civil War.Look at that column well, as it passes by,Remembering Bull Run and the cocksfeather hats,The congressmen,the raw militia brigadesWho went to war with a flag and a haircloth trunkIn bright red pantsand ideals and ignorance,Ready to fight like picture-postcard boys Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:50

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/17

Trump and North KoreaIn January 1968, North Korea violated international law by capturing the USS Pueblo as she sailed in international waters.North Korea’s rulerthen was Kim Jong-Un’s grandfather.He ordered the imprisonment of the Pueblo’s 82-man crew.They were starved and tortured. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:51

Photo of the Day

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2024/10/16

A new president’s promise to a divided nation.It is March 4, 1869.The new president, Ulysses S. Grant, has taken the oath of office on the north steps of the Capitol.Grant will preside over a nation recently at war with itself, still riven by economic, racial and gender inequalities.These are the promises he made to Americans. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:35

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/15

An anonymous letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.Jan. 18, 1937Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,I was simply astounded to think that anyone could be nitwit enoughto wish to be included in the so called social security actif they could possibly avoid it.Call it by any name you wish,it, in my opinion (and that of many people I know),is nothing but downright stealing. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

0:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/14

The blessing of hard times.Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.I would not change it.******************************I’ll see you tomorrow. — BrendaText: Shakespeare, “As You Like It, Act II, Scene I,” (written in 1599).Banner image: Construction of Rockefeller Center, early 1930s. Get

6:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/12

Reading the paper on Oct. 12, 1941.The US Navy announced the destruction of a Nazi weather station on Greenland and the capture of a small Norwegian support vessel in Greenland’s coastal waters.The weather station had been collecting information to facilitate German submarines operating against Allied convoys in the North Atlantic and to aid in predicting long-range European weather.US aerial and naval patrols of Greenland have been ongoing since the US first occupied the island in April 1941,

4:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/11

To be for the common man.It is August 31, 1910.Theodore Roosevelt, the former president, has come to Osawatomie, Kansas, the birthplace of the Kansas Republican Party.In his speech, Roosevelt will call for a ‘new American nationalism’ where people have an equal opportunity to compete on a level economic playing field. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:03

Photo of the Day

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2024/10/10

I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:09

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/09

What it was like.A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown,A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,Our army foil’d with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,’Tis a large old church at the crossing roads, now an impromptu hospital, Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

0:58

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/08

Seize the moment.That we have tried the utmost of our friends,Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:The enemy increaseth every day;We, at the height, are ready to decline.There is a tide in the affairs of menWhich taken at the flood leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat,And we must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures.******************************I’ll see you tomorrow. — BrendaThe

5:31

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/07

All men are created equal.It is October 7, 1858.Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas are at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, for their fifth of seven debates in the 1858 senate race.Twenty thousand people and newspaper reporters from across the country have gathered for the three-hour event, despite damp cold and strong winds.Lincoln is a former Whig congressman and a prominent leader of the new Republican Party.He is attempting to unseat Douglas from the US Senate, where he has served for a

6:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/05

Reading the paper on Oct. 5, 1941.It is the fifteenth week of active warfare between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Soviet forces have pushed the Germans and Romanians back from dozens of eastern Ukrainian villages in fierce tank battles, but action there is expected to slow as rains and snow begin to fall over the area.In the far north, Soviet forces have turned back a Nazi assault against Murmansk and heavy fighting continues against the Finns near Leningrad/St. Petersburg.The Finns, engaged in

5:00

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/10/04

They didn’t see it coming.It is the year 1900.The twentieth century.And the view from here, for the most part, looks good.A momentous century has passed bringing many advancements; and even more are promised in the new century to come.And there is peace.In the year 1900, Europe stood ready to embrace the twentieth century.And the party started with the Paris World Exhibition, a world’s fair. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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