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How Gunpowder Destroyed the Songhai Empire
Jun 10, 202620 min
How Ethiopia Defeated Italy at Adwa
Jun 10, 202624 min
How Eli Whitney Accidentally Started the War
Jun 10, 202619 min
How Death Valley s Sailing Stones Move
Jun 10, 202618 min
How Cotton and Gold Forced Native Removal
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Catherine the Great Seized the Throne
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Anna Delvey Scammed New York Elite
Jun 10, 202623 min
How Al-Khwarizmi Invented Algebra and Algorithms
Jun 10, 202618 min
How a Firing Squad Made Dostoevsky
Jun 10, 202622 min
Zheng He and the Vanished Treasure Fleet
Jun 10, 202623 min
The Sibyl of the Rhine: How Hildegard of Bingen Outmaneuvered the Medieval Church
Jun 9, 202623 min
Thought processThe Ancient Engineer Who Invented Everything: Heron of Alexandria
Jun 9, 202619 min
From Annoyance to the Jet Age: How Hans von Ohain's Frustration Changed Flight Forever
Jun 9, 202618 min
The Perfect Trap: How Hannibal's Cannae Rewired 2,000 Years of Warfare
Jun 9, 202623 min
Great Zimbabwe: The Lost African Metropolis They Tried to Erase
Jun 9, 202623 min
Red Sprites: The Giant Electrical Jellyfish Flashing Above Thunderstorms
Jun 9, 202623 min
The Hittites: The Forgotten Bronze Age Superpower That Rivaled Egypt
Jun 9, 202622 min
Frank Abagnale: The Greatest Con Was the Story Itself
Jun 9, 202617 min
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Woman Who Ruled China From Behind the Curtain
Jun 9, 202625 min
Elizabeth Báthory: Serial Killer, Political Scapegoat, or Both?
Jun 9, 202623 min
Edwin Howard Armstrong: The Genius Who Invented Modern Radio and Was Destroyed by Corporate Power
Jun 9, 202623 min
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Lost Caves, Ancient Secrets, and the Discovery That Rewrote Biblical History
Jun 9, 202625 min
Axum: The Forgotten African Superpower That Rivaled Rome and China
Jun 9, 202623 min
Alan Kay: The Man Who Invented the Future and Said the Computer Revolution Never Happened
Jun 9, 202621 min
Tabby’s Star: The WTF Star That Made Scientists Consider Alien Megastructures
Jun 9, 202613 min
Avicenna: The Fugitive Philosopher Who Invented the Future of Medicine
Jun 9, 202621 min
Rorke’s Drift: The Last Stand Behind Walls of Biscuit Boxes
Jun 9, 202620 min
Brian Wilson: The Genius, the Breakdown, and the Sound That Changed Pop Music
Jun 9, 202620 min
Caligula: Mad Emperor or Political Genius?
Jun 9, 202623 min
Centralia: The Name That Spread Across Maps, Ghost Towns, and Pop Culture
Jun 9, 202617 min
Charles Ponzi: The Man Who Sold America a Financial Miracle
Jun 9, 202623 min
Wu Zetian: China’s Only Female Emperor
Jun 9, 202622 min
The Big Crunch: Could the Universe Collapse Back Into Itself?
Jun 9, 202622 min
Dorothy Hodgkin: The Scientist Who Saw the Invisible Structure of Life
Jun 9, 202639 min
Amelia Earhart: The Pilot Who Turned “Baggage” Into Legend
Jun 9, 202618 min
Frances Arnold: The Scientist Who Put Evolution on Fast Forward
Jun 9, 202650 min
Gertrude B. Elion: The Scientist Who Took the Blindfold Off Medicine
Jun 9, 202617 min
Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Bought Humanity Time
Jun 9, 202624 min
Patricia Bath: The Doctor Who Fought for the Right to Sight
Jun 9, 202622 min
Stephanie Kwolek: The Woman Behind Kevlar
Jun 9, 202622 min
Burgmann Anglican School: The Institution Built From a Living Room
Jun 9, 202617 min
Rita Levi-Montalcini: The Scientist Who Built a Lab in Hiding
Jun 8, 202645 min
Dua Lipa: The Pop Star Who Bought the Factory
Jun 8, 202638 min
The Doctor Who Saved the "Blue Babies": The Life & Legacy of Dr. Helen B. Taussig
Jun 2, 202622 min
The Secret Life of Sally Ride – First American Woman in Space & Challenger Whistleblower
Jun 2, 202642 min
Yuri Gagarin: The Golden Cage of the First Man in Space
Jun 2, 202648 min
Eleanor Roosevelt: The Reluctant First Lady Who Changed the World
Jun 2, 202651 min
Frances Perkins & The Fight for American Labor Rights
Jun 2, 202655 min
The NASA Mathematician Who Calculated the Moon Landing: The Story of Katherine Johnson
Jun 2, 202636 min
The Radical Evolution of W. E. B. Du Bois: Civil Rights, the NAACP, and The Souls of Black Folk
Jun 2, 202659 min