Nikola Tesla: Genius Inventor Who Powered the World and Died Broke
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!How did the man who invented the alternating current induction motor end up feeding pigeons in N...
2 Okt 22min
Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh Egypt Tried to Erase From History
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Akhenaten led one of the most radical revolutions in ancient history, and his successors tried t...
2 Okt 22min
Sun Yat-sen: The Revolutionary Claimed by Both China and Taiwan
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2 Okt 24min
Cornelius Vanderbilt: Steamboats, Railroads and a Ghostly Will Fight
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at 11, started running a ferry in New York Harbor as a teenager...
2 Okt 24min
Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Liberty and Its Deepest Contradiction
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Long before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson argued in a Virginia courtroom tha...
2 Okt 18min
Richard the Lionheart: Warrior King vs. Absentee Ruler
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!England's great national hero barely spoke English, spent perhaps six months of his ten-year rei...
2 Okt 21min
James Brown: Control, Chaos and the Invention of Funk
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2 Okt 24min
Elvis Presley: The Shy Kid Who Became the King of Rock and Roll
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The most recognized performer on the planet started out as a painfully shy boy from Tupelo, Miss...
2 Okt 23min
