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Alexander Pope: The Four-Foot-Six Poet Who Fought Literary Wars With Loaded Couplets
Jun 16, 202621 min
Arthur Conan Doyle: Why Sherlock Holmes's Creator Believed in Fairies and Fought His Own Character
Jun 16, 202620 min
Zhou Enlai: The Diplomat, Spymaster, and Survivor Who Held China Together While Mao Tore It Apart
Jun 16, 202621 min
Matsuo Basho: The Ninja-Trained Wanderer Who Became Japan's Greatest Haiku Master
Jun 16, 202621 min
Sei Shonagon: The Unfiltered Court Lady Whose Gossip Became Japanese Literature's First Blog
Jun 16, 202620 min
John Milton: The Blind Republican Rebel Who Dictated Paradise Lost to His Daughters
Jun 16, 202624 min
Benazir Bhutto: The Contradictory Life of Pakistan's First Female Prime Minister
Jun 16, 202616 min
Nikola Tesla: The Broke, Pigeon-Loving Genius Who Electrified the Modern World
Jun 16, 202618 min
Rudolf Diesel: The Engineer Who Invented the Diesel Engine and Vanished From a Ship
Jun 16, 202620 min
Edward Teller: The Dangerous Brilliance of the Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
Jun 16, 202624 min
Hafez: The Persian Poet Who Outwitted Tyrants and Became Iran's National Oracle
Jun 16, 202621 min
Guglielmo Marconi: The Self-Taught Tinkerer Who Networked the World Without Wires
Jun 16, 202622 min
Niccolo Paganini: The Violinist Who Was So Good People Thought He'd Sold His Soul to the Devil
Jun 16, 202621 min
Bram Stoker: How a Dublin Bureaucrat Created Dracula and Invented Modern Horror
Jun 16, 202623 min
Rumi: How a Medieval Islamic Jurist Became the Best-Selling Poet in America
Jun 16, 202618 min
Du Fu: How Failure, War, and Starvation Forged China's Greatest Poet
Jun 16, 202622 min
John Donne: From London's Most Scandalous Poet to the Pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral
Jun 16, 202622 min
Li Bai: The Outlaw Poet Who Drank, Dueled, and Wrote China's Most Beloved Verses
Jun 16, 202612 min
J.R.R. Tolkien: How the Trenches of World War I and a Love Story Built Middle-earth
Jun 16, 202620 min
Ray Bradbury: The Roller-Skating Library Kid Who Wrote His Way From Depression-Era Los Angeles to Mars
Jun 16, 202621 min
Aldous Huxley: The Final LSD Trip and the Chilling Warnings That Proved More Right Than Orwell's
Jun 16, 202620 min
Bela Bartok: The Composer Who Carried a Muddy Phonograph Into the Mountains to Save Dying Music
Jun 16, 202620 min
C.S. Lewis: The Atheist Scholar Who Became Christianity's Most Persuasive Modern Defender
Jun 16, 202622 min
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Calculating the Sun's Fate and the Atomic Bomb's Power
Jun 16, 202621 min
Cyrus McCormick: The Reaper Baron Whose Invention Myth Was More Fiction Than Fact
Jun 16, 202621 min
Enzo Ferrari: The Racing Obsessive Whose Cars Killed Drivers and Made Him a Legend
Jun 16, 202624 min
Bill Gates: From Software Tycoon and Monopolist to the World's Most Embattled Philanthropist
Jun 16, 202622 min
George Orwell: The Eton Rebel Who Lived Among the Poor and Wrote 1984 While Dying
Jun 16, 202617 min
Gottlieb Daimler: The Secret Engine Shed Where the Automobile Was Really Born
Jun 16, 202621 min
George Westinghouse: The Inventor-Industrialist Who Powered the Modern World and Lost to Edison's PR Machine
Jun 16, 202621 min
Saddam Hussein: The Village Orphan Who Became Iraq's Most Brutal Modernizer
Jun 16, 202622 min
Maximilian I: Six Rulers Who Shared One Name and Shaped Europe Across Five Centuries
Jun 16, 202618 min
Curtis LeMay: The General Who Firebombed Tokyo and Wanted to Nuke Vietnam
Jun 16, 202622 min
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Customs Auditor Who Invented English Literature
Jun 16, 202623 min
Walter Brattain: The Quiet Hands That Actually Built the First Transistor
Jun 16, 202621 min
Erwin Rommel: How the Wehrmacht Built the Desert Fox Myth — and Why It Mattered
Jun 16, 202624 min
Aesop: The Mystery of Whether History's Most Famous Storyteller Actually Existed
Jun 16, 202618 min
The Nobel Winner Who Held a Gun: The Physicist Whose Prize and Principles Collided With Violence
Jun 16, 202618 min
Marie Curie: The Only Person in History to Win Nobel Prizes in Two Different Sciences
Jun 16, 202619 min
Isoroku Yamamoto: The Reluctant Architect of Pearl Harbor Who Knew Japan Would Lose
Jun 16, 202622 min
Frantz Fanon: The Revolutionary Psychiatrist Who Wrote the Handbook for Colonial Liberation
Jun 16, 202620 min
Muammar Gaddafi: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Libya's Eccentric Dictator
Jun 16, 202622 min
Julius Nyerere: The Saintly Schoolteacher-Dictator Who Built Tanzania on Idealism and Broke It
Jun 16, 202624 min
Wilhelm Rontgen: The Stateless Physics Professor Who Discovered X-Rays and Refused to Patent Them
Jun 16, 202622 min
William Shockley: The Toxic Genius Who Co-Invented the Transistor and Destroyed Everyone Around Him
Jun 16, 202621 min
Deng Xiaoping: The Twice-Purged Leader Who Rebuilt China Into a Global Superpower
Jun 16, 202622 min
Sukarno: The Architect Who Built Modern Indonesia From Three Hundred Ethnic Groups
Jun 16, 202624 min
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Dying Man Who Founded Pakistan With Six Years Left to Live
Jun 16, 202621 min
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: The Teenager Who Proved Stars Collapse — and Was Humiliated for It
Jun 16, 202620 min
Yasser Arafat: The Guerrilla Fighter Who Became a Statesman Without Ever Winning a State
Jun 16, 202622 min