Jimmy Doolittle and the Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid was an attack on Japan launched by the U.S. in retaliation for Pearl Harbor....
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China and Japan After the Doolittle Raid
After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the punishment that Japanese forces doled out in China for...
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The Great Vowel Shift, or A Brief History of English
Language is alive. It shifts and changes; pronunciations and spellings morph throughout time....
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WASP of WWII with Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Part 1
The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII was formed to see if women could fly military aircraft,...
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France...
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France...
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Six Impossible Episodes: Possible Apocrypha
We get a lot of requests for topics that are very interesting, but for which there's very little...
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Insatiable hunger completely dominated every aspect of this French man in the 18th century. His...
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April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance
Fashion historian April Calahan joined Holly for a talk about the surprising ways that women of...
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In 1973, after a series of earthquakes, a fissure was opened up on the eastern side of the...
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Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad (Part 1)
Most people are familiar with her involvement with the Underground Railroad, but Harriet Tubman...
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Bayard Rustin, 'Angelic Troublemaker' (Part 1)
Bayard Rustin was an openly gay black man born in 1912. He spent his life working tirelessly for...
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Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement (Part 2)
Because of his previous ties to the Communist Party, his race, and his sexual orientation, the...
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The Future of Reality: STDWYTK LIVE
Since the dawn of civilization humanity has attempted to understand the nature of reality, and...
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The Achaemenid Empire was founded by Cyrus II in the 6th century BCE, and it became an empire...
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The Discovery of 'Planet' Ceres
For a long time, astronomers believed that there must have been a planet lurking in the gap...
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Miss Bland was a jockey, a sports photographer, a journalist, a car dealer and a pioneer farmer....
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Doss was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, though he's not the...
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While his name is most strongly associated with the sewing machine, Isaac Singer's life is a tale...
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Industries and governments had a really weird preoccupation with protecting people from margarine...
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