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Giordano Bruno
Bruno was a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, occultist, and according to the Catholic church of 16th-century Italy, a heretic. He met a bad en…
4 years, 2 months ago
Maria Gertrudis Barceló, Santa Fe’s Gambling Queen
Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló was a professional gambler and card dealer in New Mexico in the early 19th century. But the details of her life are all …
4 years, 2 months ago
SYMHC Classics: The Race to the South Pole
This 2010 episode from previous hosts Katie and Sarah covers Scott and Amundsen launching rival expeditions to the South Pole. knowing only one group…
4 years, 3 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Guillotine
Holly and Tracy talk about Eugen Weidmann's executioner, public fixation on the case, and the availability of the images and footage of most gruesome…
4 years, 3 months ago
De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 2)
Once Eugen Weidmann was in police custody, he confessed to Jean's murder as well as several others. As the trial and execution played out, public int…
4 years, 3 months ago
De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 1)
In July 1937, 22-year-old Jean De Koven vanished while visiting Paris with her aunt. It seemed doomed to be an unsolved missing person case, until an…
4 years, 3 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
This 2019 episode is about the man often described as the person who coined the term genocide. He was also the driving force behind the existence of …
4 years, 3 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary Sidney and Holodomor
Holly and Tracy discuss Mary Sidney Herbert and the debate about whether she wrote works attributed to Shakespeare, as well as her late-in-life party…
4 years, 3 months ago
Holodomor
“Holodomor” is a name that was coined in the 1980s to describe a famine that struck Ukraine in the early 1930s. There were food shortages taking plac…
4 years, 3 months ago
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
She was a patron of the arts, the first woman to publish an English-language play, and the first woman to publish pastoral poetry. Mary Sidney Herber…
4 years, 3 months ago