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Back to SearchHistory’s Strangest Questions: Who Was The Man Who Accidentally Poisoned the Planet?
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What if the person who caused the greatest environmental damage in human history wasn't a dictator, a conqueror, or a ruthless indust…
10 hours ago
The Bill of Rights: The Shield Against Tyranny (Part Three)
Season 1 Episode 170
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The American Revolution had been won. The Constitution had been written. But for millions of Americans, one vital question remained u…
15 hours ago
The Constitution: The Blueprint That Built America (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 169
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The Declaration of Independence gave America its ideals. The Constitution gave it something just as important: a way to survive.
In Pa…
1 day, 8 hours ago
The Declaration of Independence: The Dream That Changed the World (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 169
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For nearly 250 years, the Declaration of Independence has inspired revolutions, shaped constitutions, and become one of the most infl…
2 days, 11 hours ago
The Opium Wars — The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 168
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The fleet has arrived. Now two empires that barely understand each other are about to find out just how differently they've spent the…
1 week, 2 days ago
The Opium Wars - A Habit Becomes an Empire (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 167
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Walk into a chemist's shop in Victorian Britain and you could buy opium over the counter, no questions asked. It was in the medicine …
1 week, 4 days ago
History’s Strangest Questions: Where does the name America come from?
Season 1 Episode 166
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Everyone knows America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. The Italian explorer. The New World. The map. Case closed.
Except it isn't.
Cu…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Dutch East India Company — Every Port Has a Price (Part Three)
Season 1 Episode 165
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The VOC was dissolved on the thirty-first of December, 1799. But empires don't simply end. They leave things behind.
In the third and …
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Dutch East India Company — Spies, Spices and the Birth of the Stock Market (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 162
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One man. A stolen map. The birth of modern capitalism.
In 1583, a young Dutchman talked his way into the heart of Portugal's Asian emp…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Dutch East India Company —Nutmeg: The Spice They Traded Manhattan For (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 163
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What if the most valuable commodity on earth — more precious than gold, more coveted than silk — grew in just one place? Six tiny vol…
3 weeks, 5 days ago