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Back to SearchHaile Selassie: Ethiopia's Last Emperor, Statesman, and Living Symbol
Episode 13210
Haile Selassie was revered as a pan-African statesman and worshipped as divine by the Rastafari movement, yet he was overthrown by a military junta, …
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Thomas Becket: From King's Best Friend to Murdered Archbishop
Episode 13209
When monks prepared Thomas Becket's body after his murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, they found a hair shirt hidden beneath his archbishop's si…
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Charles I: The Stubborn King Who Lost His Crown and His Head
Episode 13208
On the freezing morning of his execution in 1649, Charles I asked for a second shirt so the crowd would not mistake his shivering for fear. This deep…
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Akbar the Great: How the Mughal Emperor Built an Empire of Tolerance
Episode 13207
Akbar the Great amassed a library of 24,000 volumes despite likely never learning to read, and turned a fragile, contested inheritance into one of th…
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Vaslav Nijinsky: Ballet's Genius, the Rite of Spring, and Madness
Episode 13206
Vaslav Nijinsky was the greatest male dancer of his era, famed for leaps that seemed to pause in midair, yet his final public performance in 1919 was…
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Andreas Vesalius: The Anatomist Who Overturned Galen's Errors
Episode 13205
Andreas Vesalius was born into a family of royal physicians, yet as a student in Paris he collected bones from cemeteries to study the real human ske…
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Niels Bohr: The Atom, Quantum Theory, and a Wartime Escape
Episode 13204
Niels Bohr went from goalkeeper and self-taught glassblower to the physicist who reimagined the atom and won the 1922 Nobel Prize. This deep dive tra…
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Euclid: The Mysterious Father of Geometry and the Elements
Episode 13203
Euclid shaped how humans think about logic and space for more than 2,000 years, yet almost nothing is known about the man himself. This deep dive exa…
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Jose de San Martin: The Liberator Who Walked Away From Power
Episode 13202
Jose de San Martin liberated Argentina, Chile, and Peru, then shocked history by resigning after a private meeting with Simon Bolivar in Guayaquil in…
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Matthew Henson: The Overlooked Explorer Who Led the Way to the Pole
Episode 13201
In April 1909, Matthew Henson was sent ahead as a scout and found his own footprints were the first at the spot calculated to be the North Pole, yet …
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