Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006) was the 38th Vice Pres. (1973-1974) and the 40th President (1974-1977) of the U.S. He was also the first to hold office while never elected. A man of god and an everyman, Ford tried to heal the nation's pain after Vietnam.

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Listen to audio clips of people that were awarded by The Nobel Peace in different categories such as physics, literature and peace. Interviews and speech clips presenting great ideas are here.

Barbara Jordan (1936 to 1996), became the first African-American congresswoman to be elected, and re-elected, from the deep South. She captured the attention of the nation during the 1974 Nixon impeachment hearings. She died of pneumonia at the age of 59.

The Gold Rush was a period of migration of workers into an area of a discovery of commercial quantities of gold. Several gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa.

Republican U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy represented Wisconsin from 1947-1957. He became an iconic figure of the Cold War through a series of gestures against and investigations into Communists and domestic subversives now typically regarded as excessive and politically self-serving.

The United States Navy Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) forces are the elite Special Operations Forces of the U.S. Navy, employed in unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, Counter-Terrorism, and special reconnaissance operations.

Paul's Case is a story about a bourgeois Pittsburgh teenager who escapes reality by going to Carnegie Hall and later fleeing to New York. Lots of speculations pointed out that the author Willa Cather was probably a lesbian and demonstrated how Paul, the character, was homosexual. She made it out like the source of Paul's misery is his homosexuality

On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, stunned the world with his announcement that he would not seek re-election. The Vietnam War sink Johnson's presidency. Johnson found himself increasingly under fire from both hawks and doves, the right and the left. Listen to his famous Renunciation speech here.

Ah Rummy, nobody answers a question quite like the master of the slip and slide. Very entertaining, enjoy! Updated as he slithers...

World War I (WWI, the First World War), also known as the "Great War" was a worldwide military battle that took place mainly in Europe between 1914 and November 1918 but officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919.

sounds from the History of Japan meme by bill wurtz (more to be added soon)

The Internet, as most now know, is an enormous array of autonomous computer networks but Senator Ted Stevens sees it, a series of tubes. His comments have spawned musical spinoffs,and now he has been convicted for handing out big money giveways for republican polictical gains. Ted is Republican and endorsed by another Alaska politician Sarah Palin.

Today let's put names to more seemingly famous sounds. Sounds that are usually associated with famous musicians through side projects and collaborations.

Speeches from communist leaders.

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869 - 1940) was a British prime minister between 1937 and 1940, and is closely associated with the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. He believed that Germany had been badly treated by the Allies after it was defeated in the First World War.

Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the U.S.

2008 Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain squared off in the 2nd of 3 Debates on October 7th 2008 at Belmont University Nashville Tennessee. Here are some audio clip highlights for historical reference and entertainment.