Tag: Jules Verne
Jules Verne on Film
Recess! correspondent Terry Harpold talks with Brian Taves.
Remembering Jules Verne
Today, Recess! correspondent Terry Harpold is speaking with Walter James Miller.
On Jules Verne
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jules-Verne-An-Interview-with-Jean-Michel-Margot.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/4/2004 On Jules Verne Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the French writer, Jules Verne, who was born in 1828 and who wrote dozens and dozens of novels during the course of his life. He is viewed as one of the inventors of […]
Jules Verne
Here's Kevin Shortsleeve to take us under the sea and up in the air to celebrate the birthday of Jules Verne.
Balloons
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Balloons-and-the-Baron.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2001 Balloons Transcript Yesterday, in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers in France launched the first balloon into the air. It floated up a quarter of a mile, and was carried by the wind for a mile, and before it landed, ten minutes later, it had […]
Nelly Bly
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nelly-Bly.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello (read by Rita Smith) Air Date 1/25/2001 Nelly Bly Transcript On this day in 1889 Nellie Bly, a twenty-five year old reporter for The New York World received a hero’s welcome in Jersey City. A crowd of over 300 gathered to greet her, cannons boomed, and […]