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The Backstory: The influencer who packed up the White House as it burned!
George Washington never lived in the White House or Washington, DC. The White House wasn’t white when it was built, and it wasn’t called the White Ho…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory (Replay): ETs? Time travelers? Trying to explain the unexplained
Are you intrigued by the thought of aliens visiting Earth and leaving behind signs like cave drawings and pyramids and geoglyphs? Did you know that m…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe: The ultimate sex symbol…and victim
She was the sexiest, most beautiful actress in Hollywood during her short career. But Marilyn Monroe had a heartbreaking childhood with a mentally il…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: Charming, popular, and maybe the worst president ever
Scandal, fraud, embezzlement, wild parties, and illicit affairs—sounds very presidential, right? Not only was that the name of the game in the roarin…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: The great stink of 1858
So we’re all sweltering from the heat…air so thick and hot you can feel it go down your throat as you breathe. But heat waves are nothing new. They k…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: Body snatching for profit
They say knowledge is power. But is it more important than ethics…or law? Over the centuries, researchers' quest to understand what’s under our skin,…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: Trapped in the most inhospitable place on Earth
Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew spent almost 2 years trapped in sub-zero desolation after their ship, The Endurance, was ice-bound and …
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: A man’s man…and his colony of pussy cats
When you meet a guy dripping with testosterone who loves hunting, war, alcohol, and women, you don’t expect that he’s going to be obsessed with kitte…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: Do it my way: Politics bust up a Founding Father’s family
You think politics bust up our families? It’s hard to believe that, like us, politics could fracture a Founding Father’s family. Ben Franklin was inc…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Backstory: Brando family: Drugs, murder, and Academy Awards
He was an Academy Award-winning mega movie star. He had scores of affairs with women and men, 11 children by a variety of women, and a family story d…
2 years ago