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Reggae — with its island rhythms, religious roots, and frequently political messages — has held its place as a popular musical form for more than a quarter century. Today, on the 20th anniversary of Bob Marley's death, NPR's Tom Cole looks back at the history of the genre.

In the last part of Morning Edition's February series on what makes a city great, NPR's Susan Stamberg hears how a rich cultural mix, great shopping, and exotic food made people head to London and Amsterdam in droves -- in the 1600's. She speaks with author and historian Simon Schama about the color -- and the dreck, drugs and drink -- of these great cities three centuries ago.

Ninety years after a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York killed 146 workers, host Lisa Simeone talks with Dana Walden, the granddaughter of one survivor of the fire. Rose Freedman was the oldest living survivor of the fire until her death in Februrary. We hear clips of Freedman from a documentary series, The Living Century, which aired on PBS stations in December and January. More information about the documentary and Freedman can be found at http://www.thelivingcentury.com or http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire.

In his three-part series on the oil century, John Burnett reports that a century ago, a gusher blew on Spindletop Hill in southeast Texas, inaugurating America's infatuation with oil and gas. The first of the great southwest oil fields, Spindletop made America a global energy power, virtually overnight.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with former TV talk show host Mike Douglas. The Mike Douglas Show ran in syndication from 1961 to 1983, first from Cleveland, then Philadelphia, and finally Los Angeles. The show was famous for its variety of guests. Douglas writes about his life in television in a recently published memoir, I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show (Written with Thomas Kelly and Michael Heaton/Simon & Schuster, 2000).

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the growing number of radical eco-terrorist groups. These groups advocate sabotage and economic injury as the only ways to get the attention of the organizations they are fighting. The extreme strategies of these groups -- from arson to the mass destruction of bioengineered plants -- have some in the field afraid to go to work.

Noah Adams talks with Marty Justis, Director of the Americanism and Children and Youth Division of the American Legion, about "The Flag Code." The code was voted into law by Congress in 1942, establishing rules for displaying the American flag.

Lisa talks with Jane Gottesman, author of Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?, a collection of photographs of women in sports.

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been singing gospel for more than 60 years. But with their new CD, the group puts a reverent spin on some blues standards. NPR's David D'Arcy reports that the Blind Boys can turn just about any song into a gospel song — as long as the words are sacred.

In the second part of his interview with blues guitarist Eric Clapton, NPR's Tom Cole talks to Clapton about what the musician calls his "first language"--- the blues.