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Sarah Bernhardt
Episode 188
Sarah Bernhardt began her life in France as the unwanted child of a heartless courtesan. She found her first true home in the theater; and through ha…
4 years, 6 months ago
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 2
Episode 187
The worldwide eradication of smallpox was not Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's only claim to fame; she discarded the life she knew and set out to remake h…
4 years, 6 months ago
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 1
Episode 186
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was brought up to believe that it was her face that was her fortune, and her place to be simply decorative. However, her un…
4 years, 7 months ago
Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited
Episode 185
There are quite a few parallels between Mary Mallon's story (a series of typhoid outbreaks) and our present-day pandemic, and so there are t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Announcement: Gone fishin'
Episode 184
A summer announcement and a song
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4 years, 8 months ago
Olympias
Episode 184
Olympias is known for being the mother of Alexander the Great and for being Very Fond Of Snakes. She was subject to centuries of slander by …
4 years, 8 months ago
The Statue of Liberty, Revisited
Episode 183
This year, the Statue of Liberty's Little Sister is coming to the US for a lengthy stay. The 9' reproduction travels first to New York for t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Marjorie Merriweather Post Part 2
Episode 182
Marjorie Merriweather Post was a natural philanthropist and organizer. Her fortune may have come to her by chance, and she is perhaps most f…
4 years, 9 months ago
Marjorie Merriweather Post Part 1
Episode 181
Marjorie Post was not *born* with a silver spoon in her mouth, but breakfast cereal sure provided her with one before her tenth birthday! Sh…
4 years, 10 months ago
Loïe Fuller
Episode 180
She was many things: an actress, a dancer, a chemist, an artist, and a pioneer in stage lighting and choreography. She was inquisitive and e…
4 years, 10 months ago