A. Gustave Eiffel, Part 2

A. Gustave Eiffel, Part 2

The second part of our look at Gustave Eiffel's life picks up just after he closed down all business interests in South America, and leads into some of his most famous work, including the Statue of Liberty and the Parisian tower that bears his name.

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Tarrare, a Case of Polyphagia

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France when she was commissioned to paint Marie Antoinette. She painted royalty and nobility throughout Europe, ...

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Six Impossible Episodes: Possible Apocrypha

Six Impossible Episodes: Possible Apocrypha

We get a lot of requests for topics that are very interesting, but for which there's very little information. In some cases, those people or events may have never existed. Here's a collection of six s...

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Hercules Mulligan, Spy on the Inside Pt. 2

Hercules Mulligan, Spy on the Inside Pt. 2

After years of protesting and resisting British rule in New York, Mulligan passed important information on to George Washington, possibly saving his life. How did that one-time act of happenstance blo...

11 Touko 201628min

Hercules Mulligan, Spy on the Inside Pt. 1

Hercules Mulligan, Spy on the Inside Pt. 1

Hercules Mulligan was indeed a real person who passed intelligence to George Washington, mostly through two means - one was an enslaved man named Cato, and the other was the Culper Spy Ring. Learn mo...

9 Touko 201624min

Women in the USPS

Women in the USPS

Women have been part of mail delivery in the U.S. since colonial times, but it took centuries for women postal workers to become commonplace. Even through times when certain USPS jobs were off limits ...

4 Touko 201623min

Live From FanX: Nazis, the Occult and Indiana Jones

Live From FanX: Nazis, the Occult and Indiana Jones

It's fairly common knowledge that the Nazis were prolific looters and that there was occult interest among the officers of the organization. How weird did things actually get, and how close are the In...

2 Touko 201630min

Live From FanX: Salt Lake City's Place in Film History

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You may not know that Salt Lake City has been home to some key moments in film history. Guest host Bryan Young joins Holly to talk about everything from Charlie Chaplin to recent movies. Learn more a...

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