Sugar Ray Robinson: A Borrowed ID Card, a Pink Cadillac and Pound for Pound
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sugar Ray Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, in 1921, the son of a farmer. Th...
26 Okt 21min
Earl Tupper: DuPont Slag, a Paint Can Lid and a Tropical Island Escape
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Earl Silas Tupper was born in 1907 in Berlin, New Hampshire, and grew up on farms in central Mas...
26 Okt 21min
Trofim Lysenko: Chilled Wheat, Banned Genetics and Vavilov's Prison Death
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Trofim Lysenko was born into a peasant family in the Poltava region of present-day Ukraine in 18...
26 Okt 24min
Tipu Sultan: Iron Rockets, Napoleon's Letter and the Fall of Seringapatam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, was born in 1751 in Devanahalli, in present-day Karnataka, son...
26 Okt 22min
Thucydides: Exiled After Amphipolis, He Rewrote How History Is Done
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thucydides was born around 460 BC into an aristocratic Athenian family; his father, Olorus, is l...
26 Okt 21min
Thomas Moran: The Bolton Engraver Whose Yellowstone Art Swayed Congress
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Moran was born in 1837 in Bolton, England, a mill town where his father worked as a hand ...
26 Okt 18min
Thomas Clarkson: A Prize Essay, a Chest of Shackles and 35,000 Miles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Clarkson was born in 1760 in Wisbech, England, the son of a Church of England clergyman, ...
26 Okt 24min
Thomas Cavendish: Blue Silk Sails and the Unarmed Santa Ana Galleon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Cavendish was born in 1560 in Suffolk, inherited a large estate at 12, enrolled at Cambri...
26 Okt 23min
