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League of Outsider Baseball with Gary Cieradkowski, Host: Dr. Bob Hieronimus

The best baseball stories you’ve ever heard.  The League of Outsider Baseball: From an award-winning graphic artist and baseball historian comes a strikingly original illustrated history of baseball’s forgotten heroes, including stars of the Negro Leagues, barnstorming teams, semi-pro leagues, foreign leagues, and famous players like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Joe DiMaggio before they achieved notoriety.
 
 From a young age, Gary Cieradkowski had a passion for baseball’s unheralded heroes. Inspired by his father and their shared love of the sport, Cieradkowski began creating “outsider” baseball cards, as a way to tell the little-known stories of baseball’s many unsung heroes—alongside some of baseball’s greatest players before they were famous. The League of Outsider Baseball is a tribute to all of those who’ve played the game, known and unknown. 
 
Shining a light into the dark corners of baseball history—from Mickey Mantle’s minor league days to Negro League greats like Josh Gibson and Leon Day; to people that most never knew played the game, such as Frank Sinatra, who had his own ball club in 1940s Hollywood; bank robber John Dillinger, who was a promising shortstop and took time out between robberies to attend Cubs games; and even a few US presidents—this book is a rich, visual tribute to America’s pastime. 
 
Meticulously researched, beautifully illustrated using a unique, vintage baseball-card-style, and filled with a colorful and rich cast of characters, this book is a prized collector’s item and will be cherished by fans of all ages. The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of Baseball's Forgotten Heroes, Touchstone, 2015. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

What Animals Teach About Us Re: Humanity- Gay Bradshaw, Host Dr. Zoh Hieronimus

Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals, and even one another; their behavior is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence, and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures.

All is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals, human or not.

 

Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity by Gay Bradshaw. Hosted by Dr. Zohara Hieronimus on 21st Century Radio. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

 

Soul Dog, Spiritual Life of Animals w/Elena Mannes, Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus

Looking for companionship after a near-fatal car crash, Elena Mannes, an award-winning television journalist and producer, decided to get her first dog. But what she found with her dog Brio shook the foundations of her physical and spiritual worlds, sending her on a quest to discover the nature of his spiritual origins and to contemplate and seek out the possibility of interspecies communication--even after death. Soon after bringing her puppy home, Mannes realized that the master-companion relationship would not be possible with Brio, who quickly showed that he had a mind--and a spirit--of his own. Mannes’s growing curiosity about the intelligence, emotions, and consciousness of Brio and other dogs led her to contact an animal psychic in California who described, with amazing accuracy, Brio’s favorite walks and the author’s apartment from the dog’s point of view. Motivated by her experience, Mannes produced a filmed segment with Diane Sawyer featuring the same psychic, who described Sawyer’s country house and her dog’s favorite spots in the yard. She delved into the world of animal communicators, psychics, and scientists studying animal intelligence, including Rupert Sheldrake, to find answers to her multiplying questions: Do animals have thoughts and feelings? Consciousness? Souls? Is interspecies communication possible? Can animals reincarnate? Spanning the entire life and afterlife of Brio, including his last days and his messages to the author after he passed on, this book also explores Mannes’ investigations into the spiritual life of animals, offering a new understanding of the unbreakable bond between humans and animals. Mannes invites readers to move beyond the owner-pet relationship and shows us how to see animals as thinking, feeling, spiritual beings whose connections with us extend far beyond life and death. Hosted by Dr. Zohara Hieronimus. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

Soul Dog: A Journey into the Spiritual Life of Animals, Bear & Company.

Needful Buildings with Roger Pickenpaugh Host Mark Eddy

needful buildingsHistorian ROGER PICKENPAUGH will be discussing the development of the National Road.  Such an idea was considered unconstitutional so how was it built; who were the early supporters; and what was the necessity of building it?  We will examine some of the early technical problems that needed to be overcome such as bridges and crossing mountains.  We will get into the evolution of transportation, inn and hostelries.  We will touch on Roger's study of the catastrophic 1936 Ohio River flood.  What precipitated the flood and what was its legacy?  We will also delve into the exciting promise and disasterous conclusion of the 1901 Pan-Am Expo.  Roger is a very talented author who has a knack for recreating these historical events.  If there is time, we may get into Roger's Civil War research.

Casselman Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org

Wheeling Suspension Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org

National Road: Mile Markers
http://touringohio.com

Pan-American Exposition
https://en.wikipedia.org

”Needful Buildings,” ”Post Roads,” Floods and the 1901 Pan-Am Expo

Historian ROGER PICKENPAUGH will be discussing the development of the National Road.  Such an idea was considered unconstitutional so how was it built; who were the early supporters; and what was the necessity of building it?  We will examine some of the early technical problems that needed to be overcome such as bridges and crossing mountains.  We will get into the evolution of transportation, inn and hostelries.  We will touch on Roger's study of the catastrophic 1936 Ohio River flood.  What precipitated the flood and what was its legacy?  We will also delve into the exciting promise and disasterous conclusion of the 1901 Pan-Am Expo.  Roger is a very talented author who has a knack for recreating these historical events.  If there is time, we may get into Roger's Civil War research.

Casselman Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org

Wheeling Suspension Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org

National Road: Mile Markers
http://touringohio.com

Pan-American Exposition
https://en.wikipedia.org

Messages from Whales & Dolphins w/ Patricia Cori, Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus

What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir of whales and dolphins,” as she describes it—interrupted her talk with a frantic plea for help. Cori was suddenly witness to a devastating scene of suffering, a communal grieving of scores of whales and dolphins “frenzied, lost, and dying.” This was the first of several terrifying calls for help, all of which were immediately followed by mass suicide events as these majestic creatures collectively chose to leave us and our planet.
 
 In Before We Leave You: Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings, Patricia Cori tells how these troubling incidents evolved into the stream of messages for humanity that Cori reveals in this extremely timely work. The whales and dolphins present their deep understanding of our urgent global situation, calling for the human race to restore balance to our ecosystems—especially our dying oceans. For the first time, we read the communications of the Cetaceans and their story of devotion and celebration of life on the Great Planet Earth. We are also given a glimpse of their role in the unfolding of galactic events throughout our solar system, and the message is clear: We must wake up and realize that our continued abuse of the environment is altering the course of Gaia’s progression to the next dimension. Without the whale and dolphin song—without these musicians who hold the oceans in balance—we risk our advancement through the ascension process for which our entire solar system is destined. Before We Leave You is a roadmap to that higher future and a pathway to global transformation.

 

Hosted by Dr. Zohara Hieronimus. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

 

Local Futures with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus

Linguist, author and film maker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organization, Local Futures, whose mission is to protect and renew ecological and social wellbeing by promoting a systematic shift away from economic globalization towards localization. Their education for action programs introduce innovative models and tools to catalyze collaboration for strategic change at the community and international level. She also authored the article “How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism,” which sparks this conversation. Hosted by Dr. Zoh Hieronimus.  Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

Göbekli Tepe and Ancient Egypt with Andrew Collins, Host Dr. Bob Hieronimus

The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt. New evidence showing that the earliest origins of human culture, religion, and technology derive from the lost world of the Denisovans. Built at the end of the last ice age around 9600 BCE, Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey was designed to align with the constellation of the celestial swan, Cygnus--a fact confirmed by the discovery at the site of a tiny bone plaque carved with the three key stars of Cygnus. Remarkably, the three main pyramids at Giza in Egypt, including the Great Pyramid, align with the same three stars. But where did this ancient veneration of Cygnus come from? 

Showing that Cygnus was once seen as a portal to the sky-world, Andrew Collins reveals how, at both sites, the attention toward this star group is linked with sound acoustics and the use of musical intervals “discovered” thousands of years later by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Collins traces these ideas as well as early advances in human technology and cosmology back to the Altai-Baikal region of Russian Siberia, where the cult of the swan flourished as much as 20,000 years ago. He shows how these concepts, including a complex numeric system based on long-term eclipse cycles, are derived from an extinct human population known as the Denisovans. Not only were they of exceptional size--the ancient giants of myth--but archaeological discoveries show that this previously unrecognized human population achieved an advanced level of culture, including the use of high-speed drilling techniques and the creation of musical instruments. 

Hosted by Dr. Bob Hieronimus. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.