Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
She's sometimes called the patron saint of cats, and the story of Gertrude's religious devotion starts when she was just a young child. Her family's history is important, because they formed the roots...
6 Jun 201629min
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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 201628min
