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“H” is for Hamilton, Paul (1762-1816)

In his book, Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England (Osprey, 2021), Dr. Michael Livingston of The Citadel tells the story of the battle of Brunanburh and of an extraordinary effort, uniting enthusiasts, historians, archaeologists, linguists, and other researchers – amateurs and professionals, experienced and inexperienced alike – which may well have found the site of the long-lost battle of Brunanburh, over a thousand years after its bloodied fields witnessed history. This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, he talks about the battle, the efforts to find its true location, and why it was as existential a conflict for England as the Battle of Britain, some 1000 years later.The story: Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who'd come together to destroy them once and for all. The stakes were no less than the survival of the dream that would become England. The armies were massive. The violence, when it began, was enough to shock a violent age. Brunanburh may not today have the fame of Hastings, Crécy or Agincourt, but those later battles, were fought for an England that would not exist were it not for the blood spilled this day.

It has been an unusual winter in South Carolina - more like the winters of the mid-20th century.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Amy Martin about routines and strategies to promote good dental health for children. Dr. Martin is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Stomatology in the College of Dental Medicine at MUSC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Elizabeth Mack about what’s going in SC related to children hospitalized with COVID-19 during the omicron surge. Dr. Mack is the Division Chief for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at MUSC Children’s Health and she is a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

January 22, 2022 — Analysis of Gov. Henry McMaster's 2022 State of the State address; a preview of what's to come in the third week of the legislative session; a conversation with Lancaster County first responders about the impacts of opioids on their region; and more.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Don Rockey about alcoholic liver disease. Dr. Rockey is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist and Director of the Digestive Disease Research Center at MUSC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sylvia Szentpetery about new therapies for children with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Szentpetery is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a pediatric pulmonologist at MUSC Children’s Health.

Adult mole salamanders spend most of their lives underground in burrows, either of their own making or abandoned by other animals.

Groundhog Day is a popular North American tradition observed in the United States and Canada on February 2. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will persist for six more weeks; if it does not see its shadow because of cloudiness, spring will arrive early.