Joe Louis: The Brown Bomber's Rise, Fall, and Crushing Tax Debt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joe Louis was a national hero who helped symbolize American resistance to fascism, yet he ended ...
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Jim Thorpe: Olympic Legend, NFL Founder, and a Stolen Legacy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Jim Thorpe competed in mismatched shoes, one of them pulled from...
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James Watt and the Steam Engine: Beyond the Boiling Kettle Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The story of young James Watt watching a rattling kettle lid is almost certainly a myth, likely ...
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James Madison: The Quiet Architect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The man who designed the American federal government was no general or fiery orator. James Madis...
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James Clerk Maxwell: The Bullied Boy Who Unified Light and Electricity
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mocked as Dafty on his first day at Edinburgh Academy, James Clerk Maxwell grew into the physici...
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Isadora Duncan: The Barefoot Rebel Who Invented Modern Dance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Isadora Duncan is often remembered only for the red silk scarf that killed her in Nice in 1927, ...
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The Wright Brothers: How Two Bicycle Mechanics Outsmarted Science
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A piece of muslin from the 1903 Wright Flyer now sits on Mars aboard NASA's Ingenuity helicopter...
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How Octavian Became Augustus: The Rise and Rule of Rome's First Emperor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 19, Gaius Octavius learned that his assassinated great-uncle Julius Caesar had left him three...
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