THE ADELANTADO OF THE SEVEN CITIES by WASHINGTON IRVING

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

"Adelantado" in Spanish means, "advance man", or "one who comes first", and was the term given to Spaniards by their King as having the right to rule over newly discovered territories, provided they returned a percentage of riches to the king. During his term as US Ambassador to Spain, gifted writer Washington Irving stayed at the legendary Alhambra, where many of their old tales legends reached him, and he retold them. This is such a tale. Enjoy our new show "Radio Days" aT WWW.RECORDEDHISTORY.NET or at Player.fm, here: https://player.fm/series/radio-days. Apple link coming soon- try searching "radio days" at your Apple Podcast App. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The The Welcome, one thousand one fans. I wanted to let you know that our new show, Radio Days, has launched and is available
0:36.9	at Apple Podcast, and that a growing number of Android host sites, including Player. FM, one of our favorites. Links are in the show notes for you.
0:47.2	Radio Days is a virtual vintage radio sampler giving you a wide range of listing
0:52.4	entertainment ranging from comedy to drama and
0:55.2	it's also a window to American culture in the mid 20th century the days before TV.
1:00.8	This history ranges from Depression era through World War II to the late 50s as TV
1:06.8	began to overtake radio.
1:09.9	Radio Days launches new one-hour shows usually containing two 30 minute
1:14.2	episodes from the same radio show, sometimes one hour dramas, every
1:18.9	Wednesday and Sunday night at 8 PM Eastern Standard time. No matter your age or taste you'll find that
1:25.7	good humor and drama hasn't changed all that much and that radio entertainment was
1:30.6	well scripted and acted. Society has changed and a lot of what radio
1:35.8	brought us in those days seems innocent by comparison. Radio days should be
1:40.8	included in every homeschooler American history studies, along with all our other
1:45.4	one shows.
1:47.4	Which reminds me, we recently put two great American history episodes at 1,001 stories for the road. The oldest lady in Boston
1:56.0	about the last remaining American warship, an Independence Rock where Oregon bound wagon train
2:02.2	stopped for a day of rest while the kids painted their names
2:05.1	on the 90 foot high granite outcropping.
2:08.4	And by the way, can you name that Borship?
2:11.1	Links to Radio Days and 1,001 stories for the road can be found in our show notes here.
2:17.0	Welcome to another episode from 1,001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.
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