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Back to Search7266: Wayne Gretzky — The Human Behind the 99 and Hockey's Greatest Mind | pplpod
Episode 7266
Wayne Gretzky was too small, too slow, and too weak to dominate professional hockey. He dominated it anyway. He holds sixty-one NHL records, and his …
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7269: Henry IV of France — The King Who Traded His Faith for a Nation | pplpod
Episode 7269
Henry IV of France converted from Protestantism to Catholicism because "Paris is worth a mass." It was the most cynical and most effective political …
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7267: Judy Garland — The Industry That Built and Broke a Legend | pplpod
Episode 7267
Judy Garland was put on amphetamines to keep her energy up and barbiturates to bring her down, starting at age thirteen. MGM controlled her diet, her…
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7268: Alfred the Great — The King Who Built England from Mud and Marshes | pplpod
Episode 7268
Alfred the Great was hiding in a swamp when the Viking invasions nearly erased the last independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom. He rebuilt his army from not…
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7265: Baron Haussmann — The Fugitive Who Demolished Old Paris and Built a New One | pplpod
Episode 7265
Baron Haussmann tore down medieval Paris and replaced it with the wide boulevards, uniform facades, and grand public spaces that define the city toda…
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7262: 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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