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Back to SearchLouis XVI: The Introverted King Who Lost France and His Head
Episode 13250
Moments before his execution in 1793, Louis XVI asked whether there was any news of the explorer La Pérouse. This episode dismantles the caricature o…
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Antoine Lavoisier: The Father of Modern Chemistry and the Guillotine
Episode 13249
Antoine Lavoisier, the 18th century French nobleman, dragged chemistry out of alchemy and into rigorous measurement, yet died on the guillotine in 17…
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Louis XIV: How the Sun King Built Absolute Power at Versailles
Episode 13248
Louis XIV took the throne at four and ruled France for over 72 years, but his reign was shaped by childhood terror during the Fronde, when an armed m…
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Sitting Bull: Lakota Leader, Visionary, and Unbroken Resister
Episode 13247
Weeks before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull performed a grueling Sun Dance and saw a vision of soldiers fa…
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Strategist Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Episode 13246
Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King, renamed after his father returned from a 1934 Baptist congress in Berlin inspired by the reformer Marti…
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Muhammad Ali: From a Stolen Bicycle to a Global Icon of Defiance
Episode 13245
A stolen red Schwinn in segregated Louisville sent 12-year-old Cassius Clay into a boxing gym and set him on the path to becoming Muhammad Ali. This …
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Johnny Cash: The Contradictions Behind the Man in Black
Episode 13244
Johnny Cash was the first American to learn of Joseph Stalin's death, translating Soviet Morse code at an Air Force intercept station in West Germany…
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Toussaint Louverture: The Pragmatist Who Led the Haitian Revolution
Episode 13243
Before he led the most successful slave rebellion in history, Toussaint Louverture spent nearly two decades as a free man, a property owner, and even…
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Sir Edmund Hillary: The Beekeeper Who Climbed Everest and Gave Back
Episode 13242
Edmund Hillary was a shy teenager with a 100-minute commute to school who dropped out of university and spent his days hauling 90-pound honey boxes w…
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Charles Lindbergh: The Spirit of St. Louis, Fame, Controversy, and Secrets
Episode 13241
Charles Lindbergh was once the most famous person on Earth, and he used that fame as cover for three secret families in Europe that were not confirme…
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