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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Categories: |
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner). "Rozhinkes mit Mandlin," or "Raisins with Almonds," was first broadcast on the CBC in 1980, on Identities, a program about Canadian immigrants...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Categories: |
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 | Categories: |
A Canadian Forces CF-18 sits in its hangar at the air base in Inuvik, Northwest Territories THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom HansonOn December 17, 1903, in Kill...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | Categories: |
Orville Wright is at the controls of the Flyer as his brother, Wilbur, stands nearby during the plane's first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec....
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | Categories: |
The Second World War. Nowdays you find it in places like the British Imperial War Museum in London. Safely organized and labelled behind glass cases...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | Categories: |
John Le Carre at his home in London (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Fifty years ago, in his very first novel, John le Carré introduced a quietly complex...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | Categories: |
It's been a long while now since "tweet" was a sound a bird made, and a new friend was just someone with whom you'd recently...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Categories: |
AP Photo by Jacquelyn Martin He's best known as lead guitarist, and a founding member, of both The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. And...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Categories: |
Hindu devotees bathe in the River Ganges (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) This week on And The Winner Is... we are presenting two documentaries, both about people from India. Born...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | Categories: |
As day jobs go ... this one is pretty tough stuff. Wendy Leaver is a Toronto cop. Her beat is sexual assault crimes. What she...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | Categories: |
Singer-songwriter Jill Barber is one of six music acts that performed at the 2007 Bandwith Black History Month Concert (CP PHOTO/Andrew Vaughan)In Canada and the United States, February is...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | Categories: |
Mohawks and supporters take part in a peace march on Sunday, July 11, 2010 in Oka, Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan RemiorzThis week on our program we...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | Categories: |
In the world of classical music, Herbert Von Karajan is considered one of the most successful and most powerful conductors of the past century. Born...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | Categories: |
A Jewish man prays in the gas chamber of the Auschwitz Death Camp. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)Viktor Ullmann and Gideon Klein are two brilliant composers who died in the...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Categories: |
Cars travel along Illinois 146 near Anna, Ill. on the Trail of Tears Auto Tour Route. (AP Photo/James A. Finley) In the winter of 1838,...
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