#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: This circus showman called himself the "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: Here's Walt Whitman as captured by this 19th century photographer Mathew Brady |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $600: In 1844 he wrote, "Religion... is the opium of the people" Karl Marx |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: During the Civil War he recruited for the all-Black Massachusetts 54th Infantry, in which 2 of his sons served Frederick Douglass |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: Part classicist, part romantic, this is the only one of the 3 "B"s of classical music who lived entirely in the 19th century Brahms |
#5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: "The Inquest of the Final Victim Mary Kelly" is the subtitle of a book about this late 19th century Londoner Jack the Ripper |
#5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: Ballet music was thought an inferior genre when he was commissioned to write the music for "Swan Lake" Tchaikovsky |
#5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1200: As his health grew worse from TB, he left his dentistry practice in Atlanta & moved out West Doc Holliday |
#5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1600: In July 1866 he became the U.S. Navy's first full admiral (Admiral David) Farragut |
#5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $2000: By the time her "Middlemarch" was published, she was generally recognized as the greatest living English novelist (George) Eliot |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: On Aug. 16, 1812 British general Sir Isaac Brock captured this Michigan city Detroit |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: There's a sucker born every minute, & this showman known for saying it was born on July 5, 1810 (P.T.) Barnum |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $600: In 1894 this man "Familiar" with "Quotations" compiled a "Complete Concordance to" Shakespeare (John) Bartlett |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: New Year's Eve 1876: actress Georgiana Drew marries into this famous acting family the Barrymores |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: This Frenchman sculpted more than one statue for the NYC area: his statue of Lafayette is in Union Square (Frédéric) Bartholdi |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: Actor Joseph Jefferson was renowned for his portrayal of this snoozy Washington Irving character Rip Van Winkle |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: He improved the French milk & wine industries & made a vaccine for anthrax Pasteur |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $600: In 1897 this U.S. train car maker was buried in a room-sized block of concrete to guard against angry workers (George) Pullman |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: After this British poet drowned off Italy in 1822, his friend E.J. Trelawny kept his heart Percy Shelley |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: He wasn't "The Greatest", but he did rule Egypt from 1805 to 1848 Muhammad Ali |
#2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: Poet John Keats' brother lost all his money in a scheme by this "Birds of America" painter Audubon |
#2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: This poetic pair eloped in 1846, moved to Italy & had a son called Pen in 1849 the Brownings |
#2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $600: In 1864 this family opened a factory they named Nitroglycerin, Inc. Nobel |
#2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: Abraham Lincoln offered this Italian patriot a command in the U.S. Army Garibaldi |
#2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: The May 8, 1898 Globe-Democrat touted his "Victory... Americans control Manila Bay" Dewey |
#9174, aired 2024-10-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: Shrunken auditory nerves were seen in his autopsy after his 1827 death in Vienna (Ludwig van) Beethoven |
#7950, aired 2019-03-15 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In 1854 he became official musical instrument maker to Emperor Napoleon III; an instrument he invented is named for him Adolphe Sax |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1870s he wrote that "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits" Charles Darwin |
#6776, aired 2014-02-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages Noah Webster |
#6626, aired 2013-06-10 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: This French engineer once asked, "Why should we disguise the industrial nature of iron, even in the city?" Gustave Eiffel |
#6092, aired 2011-02-22 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In an 1845 autobiography, he wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" Frederick Douglass |
#5356, aired 2007-12-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: He got his name because Mexican victims of his attacks would cry out in terror to St. Jerome Geronimo |
#4613, aired 2004-09-29 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865 John Wilkes Booth |