Podcast Episodes

Robert E. Lee, Stuck in the Middle (Part 2)

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Robert E. Lee: Valiant Hero or Misguided Traitor?

Arlington House, Occupied By Federal Troops, 1864

George Parke Custis was kicked out of Princeton, left St. John’s College of Annapolis after only on…

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Published on 8 years ago

Herman Melville, From Obscurity to Immortality (Part One)

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Herman Melville: From obscurity to immortality

Herman Melville, 1861

When he died at age 72, on September 28, 1891, Herman Melville was so obscure that those who even remembered his literary output p…

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Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Herman Melville, From Obscurity to Immortality (Part Two)

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Herman Melville: From Obscurity to Immortality

Melville’s Massachusetts Home-Arrowhead

Over forty, Melville need not be concerned with actually having to fight for the Union but in 1863, he and his w…

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Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Ted Ngoy, The Donut King Of Southern California

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Ted Ngoy, the ultimate American Dream, including donuts

Ted Ngoy’s First Donut Shop, La Habra, California

Eventually, in 1976, one of Ted’s customers showed him an ad in the local newspaper, the Oran…

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Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Frida Kahlo, Her Life and Remarkable Work (Part 1)

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Frida Kahlo, Mexican icon

Frida Kahlo Photographed By Her Father

Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderon was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. Today, Coyoacan, officially a borough of the Fede…

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Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

Frida Kahlo, Her Life and Remarkable Work (Part Two)

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Frida Kahlo: Mexican Icon

Trotsky In Mexico

Since the death of Lenin in 1924, a power struggle over not only over the Soviet government but also the international Communist movement ensued with the w…

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Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

Ian Fleming, Creator of James Bond (Part 1)

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Ian Fleming, who proved that a great deal of fiction is factual.

Ian Fleming, Naval Intelligence

Ian Fleming was born on May 28, 1908, the second son of Valentine and Evelyn Fleming. Both parents cam…

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Published on 8 years, 9 months ago

Ian Fleming, Creator of James Bond (Part 2)

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Ian Fleming proved that a great deal of fiction is factual

Ian Fleming, with his first novel Casino Royal

Acquiring a name for his protagonist was simple enough.  When cosmopolitan visitors to Golden…

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Published on 8 years, 9 months ago

Grigori Rasputin, The Wrong Man in the Right Place (Part One)

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Rasputin, the wrong man in the right place.

Rasputin, Early Years

Grigori Rasputin was born on January 9, 1869, in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoe, one of nine children of Efim and Anna.  Even the…

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Published on 8 years, 11 months ago

Grigori Rasputin, The Wrong Man in the Right Place (Part Two)

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Rasputin, the wrong man in the right place.

Rasputin, later years

Rasputin routinely spent his summers in Pokrovskoe and June, 1914 found him back in his home town.  On June 29, Rasputin emerged from…

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Published on 8 years, 11 months ago