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Hiatus Week Day 3: A very odd and sort of a ‘trickster’ poem by none other than Lewis Carroll.

Hiatus Week Day 2: A belated autumnal poem to explain the Indian Summer phenomenon.

Our first ever hiatus week doesn't mean we won't be sharing some daily culture with you - find out what this week's content-theme theme is!

Imagine a baby Barack Obama in a little carrier, set upon a desk in a large lecture hall. His mom is there too of course. She's the one taking the classes, taking care of a new baby, and taking care of business!

Today we're grateful for all our listeners. A reflection on gratitude is baked into one timely poem for today's holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!

Fanny Kemble stirs up trouble in her marriage...but over what? The first big-time Asian American actor makes waves in Hollywood, finding his place after a fight-happy youth.

Charles Schulz basically made a killing with Peanuts! A fiercely independent American surgeon shares a birthday with the cartoonist. Poem by Lewis Carroll.

A million-dollar Lady deserves a million-dollar question: Can you name the most ethnically diverse country in South America? Plus, a completely unrelated poem.

Toy Story premiered in theaters – and it was well worth the investment! George Eliot lived in sin as an adult and was considered by her father to be unattractive. She showed him.

A female Dutch playwright rises to fame and French thinker Voltaire named himself. Plus, a modern poem for a special birth-day.