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Back to Search7262: Edward I — The Chivalric Tyrant Who Forged Modern England Through Conquest | pplpod
Episode 7262
Edward I built the greatest castle network in medieval Europe, codified English common law, expelled the Jews from England, and crushed Wales so thor…
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7264: The Failed Pianist Who Abandoned Music and Mapped the American West | pplpod
Episode 7264
Before he became one of the great explorers of the American frontier, he was a young musician whose dreams of a concert career fell short. The same d…
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7263: Werner Herzog — The Ecstatic Truth of Cinema's Most Fearless Director | pplpod
Episode 7263
Werner Herzog ate his own shoe on camera, dragged a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon, and was shot by a sniper during an interview and kept ta…
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7261: Jack Nicholson — The Calculated Mind Behind Hollywood's Greatest Madman | pplpod
Episode 7261
Jack Nicholson made madness look effortless. The raised eyebrows, the wolfish grin, the explosions of rage in The Shining and One Flew Over the Cucko…
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7260: The Archer Who Seized the Russian Throne — Ambition, Revolt, and Empire | pplpod
Episode 7260
In the treacherous world of Russian succession, one figure rose from obscurity through martial skill and political cunning to seize the throne itself…
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7256: Neil Armstrong — The Engineer Who Treated Mortal Danger Like a Math Problem | pplpod
Episode 7256
Neil Armstrong nearly died in the Gemini 8 mission, ejected from a lunar landing training vehicle seconds before it exploded, and landed the Eagle on…
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7257: Sergei Eisenstein — Montage, Stalin, and the Collision Between Art and Power | pplpod
Episode 7257
Sergei Eisenstein invented modern film editing with Battleship Potemkin and then spent the rest of his career trying to survive a dictator who unders…
3 days, 22 hours ago
7259: Emil Zatopek — The 1952 Olympic Heist That Defied Human Limits | pplpod
Episode 7259
Emil Zatopek won the 5,000 meters, the 10,000 meters, and the marathon at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. No one had ever won all three distance events a…
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7258: Steve McQueen — The Mechanics of Survival Behind the King of Cool | pplpod
Episode 7258
Steve McQueen spent his childhood in reform schools and on the streets before joining the Marines. He brought that survival instinct to every role, p…
3 days, 22 hours ago
7255: Le Corbusier — The Machine for Living and Architecture's Most Divisive Genius | pplpod
Episode 7255
Le Corbusier wanted to tear down central Paris and replace it with identical glass towers surrounded by highways. He called houses "machines for livi…
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