This Week in Western Civilization March 2-8

0:00Welcome to this week in Western Civilization on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. I'm your host, Olivia Finch, bringing you Snapshots of History and Context. Hello everyone, today we'll be covering one important birth, one important death, and one notable event that happened between March 1st and March 7th in Western Civ. On March 3rd, 1847, Scottish American inventor, scientist, and engineer Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell is best known as the inventor of the telephone, which stem partially from his research on hearing and speech in honor of his father and grandfather, both of whom worked in Elecution and his mother and wife, both of whom were death.

1:18On March 6th, 1932, American composer John Philip Sousa died of heart failure at the age of 77 in his hotel room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania. Sousa is best known for his American military marches, including the Liberty Bell, which is also the opening theme for Monty Python's Flying Circus, Semper Fidelis, the official march of the United States Marine Corps, and the stars and stripes forever, the National March of the United States of America. However, since most people already know that last one, and my dad is a Marine veteran, I'll be playing a bit of Semper Fidelis. Hi dad. On March 4th, 1681, King Charles II of England granted a land charter to English writer

2:31and Quaker Theologian William Penn to repay a debt of 16,000 pounds sterling owed to Penn's father. This area, given as one of the largest land grants to an individual in a history, when later become Pennsylvania, which is where I'm from. You've been listening to this week in Western Civilization with Olivia Finch on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and I'll see you next week.