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Back to SearchClaude Monet: The Impressionist Who Kept Painting as His Eyesight Disappeared
Episode 6816
Claude Monet spent his final decades painting through cataracts that progressively distorted his vision, turning the world into a blur of reds and br…
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Marilyn Monroe: The Strategic Mind Behind Hollywood's Most Underestimated Icon
Episode 6820
Marilyn Monroe was not the dizzy blonde the studios sold to the public. She studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, founded her own producti…
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Diego Maradona: The Thief, the Artist, and the Most Controversial Genius in Football History
Episode 6819
Diego Maradona scored two goals against England in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal. The first was a blatant handball he credited to "the hand of God.…
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Joe Louis: The Heavyweight Champion Who Fought Hitler and Then Lost Everything to the IRS
Episode 6818
Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their 1938 rematch and became the most important Black American athlete before Jackie Robin…
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Alice Paul: The Militant Suffragist Who Forced America to Give Women the Vote
Episode 6811
Alice Paul was beaten, arrested, force-fed in prison, and nearly killed — and she considered all of it a tactical success. While Susan B. Anthony's g…
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Geronimo: From Feared Apache Warrior to Prisoner of War and Human Exhibition
Episode 6815
Geronimo spent twenty-five years fighting the Mexican and American armies with a guerrilla force that never numbered more than a few dozen warriors —…
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Joseph Smith: From Treasure Hunter With a Seer Stone to Presidential Martyr
Episode 6814
Joseph Smith began his public life peering into a stovepipe hat, claiming a magical stone could reveal buried treasure. Within fifteen years, he had …
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Audrey Hepburn: From Starving Dutch Resistance Child to Hollywood's Most Beloved Icon
Episode 6812
Before Audrey Hepburn became the most elegant woman in cinema, she was a starving child in Nazi-occupied Holland who ate tulip bulbs to survive, carr…
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Francis of Assisi: The Radical Saint Behind the Garden Birdbath Statues
Episode 6813
The garden-store Francis of Assisi — the serene figure surrounded by birds and bunnies — bears almost no resemblance to the real man. The historical …
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Albert Camus: The Rebellious Life of the Philosopher Who Chose the Sun Over Ideology
Episode 6806
Albert Camus grew up poor in French Algeria, won the Nobel Prize for Literature at forty-four, and died in a car crash at forty-six with an unused tr…
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