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Back to SearchAugusto Sandino: The Mystic Guerrilla Who Fought the U.S. Marines and Became Nicaragua's Ghost
Episode 7085
Augusto Sandino was a gold miner turned guerrilla leader who fought the United States Marines to a standstill in the mountains of Nicaragua for six y…
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Aung San: The Revolutionary Father of Myanmar Whose Murder Condemned a Nation
Episode 7086
Aung San negotiated Burma's independence from Britain, built the army that would dominate the country for decades, and was assassinated at thirty-two…
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Ernest Rutherford: The Farm Boy Who Split the Atom and Proved It Was Mostly Empty Space
Episode 7091
Ernest Rutherford grew up on a New Zealand farm, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry despite considering himself a physicist, and made the discovery tha…
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Ferdinand Porsche: The Engineer Behind the Nazi Tanks, the People's Car, and the Beetle
Episode 7092
Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle as Hitler's "people's car," engineered the Tiger and Ferdinand tanks that fought on the Eastern Fron…
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Desmond Tutu: The Radical Moderate Who Used Moral Authority to Dismantle Apartheid
Episode 7089
Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for opposing apartheid through moral witness rather than armed resistance — and spent the rest of his life bei…
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Woodrow Wilson: The Professor-President Whose Stroke Created a Secret Presidency and Whose Racism Re-Segregated Washington
Episode 7084
Woodrow Wilson was the most educated president in American history — a political science professor who won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the Lea…
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Jefferson Davis: The Contradictions of the Confederate President Who Never Accepted Defeat
Episode 7082
Jefferson Davis was a West Point graduate, a Mexican War hero, a respected U.S. senator, and the president of the Confederate States of America. He l…
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Alexander Hamilton: The Forgotten Architect of Modern America Who Built the System Everyone Takes for Granted
Episode 7081
Before the musical made him famous again, Alexander Hamilton was the most underappreciated Founding Father — the man who designed the financial syste…
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Giuseppe Garibaldi: The Revolutionary Swordsman Who Unified Italy With Passion and a Thousand Red Shirts
Episode 7077
Giuseppe Garibaldi conquered the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies with a thousand volunteers in red shirts — one of the most improbable military campaigns…
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Hugo Chavez: The Charismatic Populist Whose Bolivarian Revolution Destroyed Venezuela
Episode 7078
Hugo Chavez rode a wave of popular fury against Venezuelan inequality into the presidency, funded a social revolution with oil money, and positioned …
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