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Alexander Pushkin, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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become a financial supporter. Thank you so much. App users can hear the poem, I wandered lonely as

a cloud by William Wordsworth in the special features for today's episode. Today we returned to

Russia and meet Alexander Pushkin. He was born to a noble family but by the time he came along,

most of the money was gone. He was one of the great Russian luminaries and today's story of

self-destructive greed is arguably his most famous. Chikovsky made it into an opera which premiered

in St. Petersburg in 1890. Now in the story they play a game called Pharaoh. Pharaoh, spelled

F-A-R-O, is a gambling card game in which players bet on the order in which the cards will appear.

Pharaoh, like the Egyptian Pharaoh, is said to have been the name of the King of Hearts.

I hope you enjoyed the story. Now for our personal moment. Goldie has a performance at the

Covey Center. You know the seven habits of highly effective people guy? He was from Utah and his name

is all over the place. Anyway, the performance is a review where her musical dance theater troop

performs a medley of songs from Disney's Aladdin. Normally, like you know last year when they did

this, this was a one night event, but with Covey, they're selling only a third of the seats and doing

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