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The Devil’s in the Details – #17 – What is the Chicago World’s Fair?

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkIn episode 17 of The Devil’s in the Details, Dan Parrella tells Pedro Lima (and Chris Crespo) all about the Chicago World’s Fair of the mid 1890s, and how this one event impacted American culture and business in such a huge way.

In this episode:

First World’s Fair in 1851 in Great Britain.

France builds Eiffel Tower for the 1881 World’s Fair in Paris.

New Yorkers call Chicago the Windy City because of the boastfulness of Chicagoans planning the 1894 World’s Fair.

Jackson Park is created.Continue Reading …

The Devil’s in the Details – #16 – What is Black American History?

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkIn episode 16 on The Devil’s in the Details, Dan Parrella and Pedro Lima welcome back to the show stand up comic Ken Miller and Dan talks to Pedro and Ken about Black History in America, which includes Jim Crow and Sambo cartoons, Thomas Rice, the Civil Rights Movement, W. E. B. Du Bois, the all black newspaper called The Crisis, MLK, JFK, and LBJ, segregation, the importance of the 1960s and the four iterations of the Ku Klux Klan.

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The Devil’s in the Details – #15 – What is the History of Africa?

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkIn episode 15 of The Devil’s in the Details, Dan Parrella and Pedro Lima are joined by first time guest and stand up comedian Ken Miller, and Dan tells Pedro and Ken about the history of Africa, which includes their reliance on oral history, the Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia’s continued dominance against Italy and other wanna be European invaders, Liberia, South Africa and apartheid, donations to African-centric charities, Cecil Rhodes and the De Beer corporation, Africans selling other Africans in the slave trade, and history’s wealthiest person Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali. Continue Reading …