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Back to SearchRichard the Lionheart: Warrior King vs. Absentee Ruler
Episode 13270
England's great national hero barely spoke English, spent perhaps six months of his ten-year reign in the country, and joked about selling London. Th…
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James Brown: Control, Chaos and the Invention of Funk
Episode 13269
James Brown went from a juvenile detention center to meeting three U.S. presidents and calming a city on one of the most volatile nights in American …
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Elvis Presley: The Shy Kid Who Became the King of Rock and Roll
Episode 13268
The most recognized performer on the planet started out as a painfully shy boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, who was teased as a mama's boy and reportedl…
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Freddie Mercury: How Farrokh Bulsara Designed a Rock Legend
Episode 13267
Before he was Freddie Mercury, he was Farrokh Bulsara, a Parsi boy born in Zanzibar who refused to fix his extra teeth because he believed they shape…
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Horatio Nelson: Seasick Admiral, Rule Breaker and Hero of Trafalgar
Episode 13266
Britain's greatest naval hero suffered from seasickness his entire life and won his most famous victories missing an arm and the sight in one eye. Dr…
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Richard Francis Burton: Explorer, Linguist and Victorian Rebel
Episode 13265
Richard Francis Burton infiltrated Mecca in disguise, survived a javelin through both cheeks, kept a troop of monkeys to study their sounds, and shoc…
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J.P. Morgan: The Banker Who Bailed Out America and Built Monopolies
Episode 13264
He was physically imposing, self-conscious about a nose disfigured by rosacea, and powerful enough to rescue the United States Treasury. This deep di…
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The Real Daniel Boone: Frontier Myth vs. Historical Reality
Episode 13263
Daniel Boone hated the coonskin cap, carried Gulliver's Travels into the wilderness, and was once court-martialed for treason by his own neighbors. T…
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Theodore Roosevelt: From Sickly Child to the Modern Presidency
Episode 13262
Theodore Roosevelt began life as a chronically ill boy struggling with severe asthma in a darkened New York bedroom, surrounded by taxidermy. This de…
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Samuel Morse: The Painter Who Wired the World With the Telegraph
Episode 13261
Before he gave the world the telegraph and Morse code, Samuel Morse spent the first half of his life trying to become America's greatest painter. Thi…
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