John D. Rockefeller: Ruthless Monopolist, First Billionaire, Philanthropist
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John D. Rockefeller once controlled 90 percent of the American oil market, yet in old age he han...
1 Okt 27min
Jimi Hendrix: How a Kid With a Broomstick Reinvented the Electric Guitar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!As a boy in 1950s Seattle, Jimi Hendrix strummed a broomstick to cope with a violent, unstable h...
1 Okt 22min
Harry Houdini: The Psychology, Marketing and Tragic Death of a Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harry Houdini made audiences believe he could defy chains, water and gravity, yet he died after ...
1 Okt 22min
Henry Hudson: Failed Voyages, Mutiny and a 400-Year Arctic Mystery
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Hudson's name covers a river, a strait and a vast bay, yet we have no confirmed birth date...
1 Okt 22min
George Stephenson: The Illiterate Miner Who Became Father of Railways
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Stephenson was born into deep poverty in Wylam, Northumberland, in 1781, could not read u...
1 Okt 24min
Mahatma Gandhi: From Shy, Guilt-Ridden Youth to Nonviolent Revolutionary
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is remembered as a serene icon of peace, but he began as an insecure,...
1 Okt 22min
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Hidden Paralysis, the New Deal and World War II
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Franklin Delano Roosevelt projected boundless confidence while secretly relying on heavy iron le...
1 Okt 22min
Francis Crick: From the Double Helix to the Mystery of Consciousness
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A World War II bomb destroyed a London lab where a PhD student was measuring the viscosity of ho...
1 Okt 23min
