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Sister Rosetta Tharpe Invented Rock and Roll
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Sir Richard Burton The Rogue Victorian Explorer
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Sargon of Akkad and the First Empire
Jun 10, 202621 min
Samuel Hearne and the Bloody Falls massacre
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Romania's communist king executed on Christmas
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Robert Johnson Beyond the Crossroads Myth
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Radia Perlman and the Self-Healing Internet
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Sally Ride the Astronaut and Secret Whistleblower
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Pol Pot and the Cambodian Genocide
Jun 10, 202612 min
Pliny the Elder and the First Encyclopedia
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Phil Spector and the Mad Genius Myth
Jun 10, 202622 min
Pauli Murray and the Architecture of Rights
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Nina Simone Turned Bach Into Revolution
Jun 10, 202617 min
Nelson's Radical Gamble at Trafalgar
Jun 10, 202620 min
Michelangelo’s Agony and Hidden Sistine Puzzles
Jun 10, 202620 min
Mary Anning and the discovery of extinction
Jun 10, 202620 min
Maria Sibylla Merian Proved Insect Metamorphosis
Jun 10, 202621 min
Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nuclear Waltz
Jun 10, 202640 min
Magellan Never Actually Sailed Around the World
Jun 10, 202621 min
Lady Mary Montagu and the Smallpox Inoculation
Jun 10, 202623 min
Karen Carpenter’s Fatal Battle for Control
Jun 10, 202620 min
Why the universe ends with a whisper
Jun 10, 202620 min
Why They Really Stormed the Bastille
Jun 10, 202623 min
Yellowstone Is Not A Ticking Bomb
Jun 10, 202619 min
Yukio Mishima s Violent Final Performance
Jun 10, 202621 min
John Hanning Speke’s Fatal Nile Obsession
Jun 10, 202619 min
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Pulsar Scruff
Jun 10, 202641 min
Jeannette Rankin s solitary vote against war
Jun 10, 202620 min
Jane Addams From American Saint to Traitor
Jun 10, 202619 min
Invisible parking spots at Lagrange points
Jun 10, 202618 min
Igor Sikorsky and the 30 year wait
Jun 10, 202618 min
How Zulu Spears Defeated British Rifles
Jun 10, 202623 min
How your shadow becomes a Brocken spectre
Jun 10, 202618 min
How your brain physically rewires itself
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Water Built and Broke Angkor
Jun 10, 202622 min
How the world hijacked Pink Panther
Jun 10, 202619 min
How the Somme Forged Modern Warfare
Jun 10, 202623 min
How the ranch forged Sandra Day O Connor
Jun 10, 202623 min
How the Ottoman Invincibility Myth Shattered
Jun 10, 202621 min
How the Brinicle Finger of Death Forms
Jun 10, 202620 min
How the Bermuda Triangle Was Invented
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Sumerians Built and Destroyed Civilization
Jun 10, 202622 min
How Stalingrad broke the German army
Jun 10, 202620 min
How Silk Weaving Programmed Modern Computing
Jun 10, 202622 min
How Nobel laureates nearly broke Wall Street
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Mount Pelée Erased Saint-Pierre
Jun 10, 202621 min
How Mansa Musa crashed the gold market
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Jerome Kerviel Nearly Broke SocGen
Jun 10, 202620 min
How James Watt hacked the steam engine
Jun 10, 202622 min
How Hairspray and Styrofoam Robbed Antwerp
Jun 10, 202623 min