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Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Time Zones
Humans have understood how to calculate the length of a day pretty accurately for a long time. But there wasn’t a standard way to approach time on a …
3 years, 8 months ago
Marino Faliero, the Beheaded Doge
Faliero was the 55th Doge of Venice, a man who was, at least for a time, well respected. But his legacy is that he was the only doge decapitated for …
3 years, 8 months ago
SYMHC Classics: The Daring Imposter Cassie Chadwick
This 2018 episode covers the fraud career of Cassie Chadwick. Her biggest con was convincing banks that she was the daughter of Andrew Carnegie.
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3 years, 8 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Soyer and Mercator
Holly and Tracy talk about Alexis Soyer's legendary charm, Emma Jones, and famine soup. They also talk about the globes and maps they grew up with.
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3 years, 8 months ago
Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection
The Mercator projection gets a lot of grief for distorting the relative sizes of different land masses, but Mercator’s map was actually pretty good a…
3 years, 8 months ago
Alexis Soyer
At a young age, Alexis Soyer became a very well-known chef in both France and England, as popular for his fun personality as for his cooking. But he …
3 years, 8 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Anne Lister
This 2018 episode covers Anne Lister, who was looking for a wife at a time when many women sought husbands to ensure financial stability. She was als…
3 years, 9 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Jack and Ponzi
Tracy and Holly talk about the folklore aspects of Jack Sheppard's story, and how a mustache drawn on a photo of Charles Ponzi was part of Pulitzer P…
3 years, 9 months ago
Charles Ponzi’s Schemes
He’s synonymous with fraud today, but the most famous scheme Charles Ponzi pulled in his lifetime was surprisingly short-lived.
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Jack Sheppard, Prison-Breaker
Jack Sheppard became sort of a serial breakout artist in 18th-century England. He was a real person who became a folk hero, but many of the accounts …
3 years, 9 months ago