The Eruption at Heimaey
In 1973, after a series of earthquakes, a fissure opened up on the eastern side of the Icelandic island of Heimaey. As the eruption developed over time, it became more dangerous, and a variety of meas...
1 Kesä 201636min
The Women of Bauhaus
While the Bauhaus school is well known, and its original manifesto proclaimed an environment of equality, most of the women who went to the school were ushered into specific courses, rather than given...
30 Touko 201630min
April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance
Fashion historian April Calahan joined Holly for a talk about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartp...
25 Touko 201640min
Tarrare, a Case of Polyphagia
Insatiable hunger completely dominated every aspect of this French man's existence in the 18th century. His life took a series of twists and turns, but his condition was never truly diagnosed or cured...
23 Touko 201628min
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, ...
18 Touko 201634min
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...
16 Touko 201637min
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 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
