Ramesses II: Propaganda, Monuments and the Real Pharaoh
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great or Ozymandias, ruled Egypt for 66 years and lived ...
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Philo Farnsworth: The Farm Boy Who Invented Electronic Television
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1921, a 14-year-old Idaho farm boy plowing a field imagined scanning images line by line with...
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Simón Bolívar: Grief, Revolution and the Liberator's Contradictions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1805, a wealthy, grieving 22-year-old named Simón Bolívar stood on the Monte Sacro in Rome an...
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Dmitri Mendeleev: The Chaotic Life Behind the Periodic Table
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dmitri Mendeleev gave the world the periodic table, yet the popular story that he set Russian vo...
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Max Planck: The Reluctant Father of Quantum Mechanics and His Tragedies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Max Planck was a deeply conservative thinker who went looking for perfect order in nature and ac...
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Martin Luther: The Anxious Monk Who Accidentally Split Christianity
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1505, a terrified 21-year-old law student caught in a thunderstorm vowed to become a mon...
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Julius Caesar: How Ambition and Strategy Broke the Roman Republic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!As a young man, Julius Caesar refused the dictator Sulla's order to divorce his wife and was for...
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John Snow: Chloroform, Cholera and the Birth of Modern Epidemiology
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1853 John Snow administered precisely calculated chloroform to Queen Victoria during the birt...
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