| S2019E01 |
How a Broken Toilet Foiled a German Sub
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January 1, 2019
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23
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| S2019E02 |
The American Soldiers Who Defected to North Korea and Became Movie Stars
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January 4, 2019
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33
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| S2019E03 |
Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs
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January 8, 2019
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34
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What does 'Idaho' actually mean?
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January 10, 2019
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22
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Benjamin Franklin's Advice on 'Finding a Mistress'
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January 15, 2019
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29
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| S2019E06 |
Was there a real-life Rapunzel?
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January 17, 2019
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27
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| S2019E07 |
Idiomatic For The People, Part 1
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January 23, 2019
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62
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| S2019E08 |
How the Monopoly Board Game Became a World War II Escape Kit
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January 25, 2019
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28
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| S2019E09 |
Clara, The World's Most Famous Rhinoceros
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January 30, 2019
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44
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| S2019E10 |
Who was the highest paid athlete in history?
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February 1, 2019
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28
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| S2019E11 |
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 1
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February 5, 2019
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42
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| S2019E12 |
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 2
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February 8, 2019
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31
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| S2019E13 |
How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub
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February 12, 2019
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40
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| S2019E14 |
English Men Used to Sell Their Wives
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February 14, 2019
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22
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| S2019E15 |
How Admiral Horatio Nelson Ended Up Dead in a Barrel of Brandy
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February 19, 2019
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33
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| S2019E16 |
How far did Isaac Newton go to hunt down forgers?
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February 21, 2019
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27
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| S2019E17 |
Operation Gunnerside: How a Crew of Military Skiers Ruined the Nazi Bomb
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February 26, 2019
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25
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| S2019E18 |
The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code
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February 28, 2019
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33
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| S2019E19 |
The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?
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March 5, 2019
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34
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| S2019E20 |
Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day
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March 7, 2019
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39
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| S2019E21 |
The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt
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March 12, 2019
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32
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| S2019E22 |
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 1
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March 14, 2019
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48
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| S2019E23 |
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 2
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March 19, 2019
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36
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| S2019E24 |
When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid
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March 21, 2019
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29
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| S2019E25 |
California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War
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March 26, 2019
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27
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| S2019E26 |
Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?
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March 28, 2019
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28
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| S2019E27 |
Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze
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April 2, 2019
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30
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| S2019E28 |
Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football
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April 4, 2019
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23
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| S2019E29 |
How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles
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April 9, 2019
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23
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| S2019E30 |
Hong Xiuquan: The Younger Brother of Jesus Christ Who Led a Bloody Rebellion in China
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April 11, 2019
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36
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| S2019E31 |
How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death
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April 16, 2019
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25
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| S2019E32 |
How Robert 'The Fastest Knife in the West End' Liston Conducted a Surgery With a 300% Mortality Rate
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April 18, 2019
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28
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| S2019E33 |
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1
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April 24, 2019
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30
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| S2019E34 |
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 2
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April 25, 2019
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26
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| S2019E35 |
Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess
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May 1, 2019
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53
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| S2019E36 |
How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship
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May 2, 2019
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33
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| S2019E37 |
Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)
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May 8, 2019
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24
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| S2019E38 |
Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax
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May 9, 2019
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43
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| S2019E39 |
The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs
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May 15, 2019
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34
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| S2019E40 |
The Rise and Fall of Local Scrip: Alternative Currencies of the Great Depression
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May 16, 2019
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37
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| S2019E41 |
That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War
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May 21, 2019
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32
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| S2019E42 |
The Return of Listener Mail
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May 23, 2019
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31
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| S2019E43 |
The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams
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May 28, 2019
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39
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| S2019E44 |
The Honorary Citizens of the United States
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May 30, 2019
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41
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| S2019E45 |
The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu
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June 4, 2019
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24
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| S2019E46 |
Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada
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June 6, 2019
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33
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| S2019E47 |
Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles
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June 11, 2019
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49
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| S2019E48 |
I Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican
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June 13, 2019
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33
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| S2019E49 |
Playboy, Progressive Politics and Stand-up: The Dick Gregory Story with Wayne Federman
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June 18, 2019
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49
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| S2019E50 |
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I Tried To Make An Army of Super Tall Soldiers
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June 20, 2019
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32
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| S2019E51 |
Yasuke, the African Samurai
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June 25, 2019
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28
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| S2019E52 |
Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers
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June 27, 2019
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30
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| S2019E53 |
The Night Witches: How an All-female Soviet Bomb Squad Terrorized Nazi Germany
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July 2, 2019
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30
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| S2019E54 |
That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada
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July 4, 2019
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27
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| S2019E55 |
Operation Northwoods: How the US Planned to Attack Itself and Start a War with Cuba
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July 9, 2019
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41
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| S2019E56 |
Meet Albert Cashier, the Trans Man Who Fought for the Union in the Civil War
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July 11, 2019
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27
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| S2019E57 |
Did the US Mafia actually start in New Orleans?
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July 16, 2019
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27
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| S2019E58 |
A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear"
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July 18, 2019
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24
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| S2019E59 |
Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II
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July 23, 2019
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24
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| S2019E60 |
Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds
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July 26, 2019
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30
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| S2019E61 |
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis: How One Lucky Forger Almost Destroyed A Nation's Economy
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July 30, 2019
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34
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| S2019E62 |
Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella
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August 1, 2019
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27
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| S2019E63 |
That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright
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August 6, 2019
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26
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| S2019E64 |
The Listener Mail Extravaganza
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August 9, 2019
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34
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| S2019E65 |
Hunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit)
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August 14, 2019
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37
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| S2019E66 |
Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk
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August 15, 2019
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92
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| S2019E67 |
Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel
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August 20, 2019
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34
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| S2019E68 |
The Super Fight: When Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano Had A Fight That Never Happened
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August 23, 2019
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34
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| S2019E69 |
The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kiev
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August 28, 2019
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36
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| S2019E70 |
John Willis Menard: The First African American Elected To US Congress
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August 30, 2019
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26
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| S2019E71 |
Why George Washington is Huge in Barbados
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September 4, 2019
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48
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| S2019E72 |
Around the World in a Model T: The Story of Aloha Wanderwell
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September 5, 2019
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27
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| S2019E73 |
Sir Francis Drake and the Great Iowa Swindle
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September 10, 2019
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38
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| S2019E74 |
4 Times Women in the US Were Actually Arrested for Wearing Pants
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September 13, 2019
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49
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| S2019E75 |
Otto Rahn, The Nazi Occultist Who Hated Nazis and Inspired Indiana Jones
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September 18, 2019
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27
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| S2019E76 |
The Gaspee Affair: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary “Tea Party”
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September 19, 2019
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23
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| S2019E77 |
Teddy Bears, Rhinos, Safari and Everywhere Else: A Conversation with Daniel Scheffler
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September 24, 2019
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39
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| S2019E78 |
Tom Watson Gordy: How One Uncle’s Adventures Inspired Jimmy Carter to Join the Navy
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September 27, 2019
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47
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| S2019E79 |
How Uncle Tom's Cabin Became One of the Most Popular Books in China
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October 1, 2019
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38
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| S2019E80 |
The Kaiser’s Plan to Invade the United States
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October 3, 2019
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33
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| S2019E81 |
Christopher Columbus Was Such A Jerk That Even Spain Turned Against Him
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October 8, 2019
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38
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| S2019E82 |
John Clem: The 12-year Old Civil War Hero
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October 10, 2019
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30
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| S2019E83 |
John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln's Son
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October 16, 2019
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27
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| S2019E84 |
The Bizarre Capitulation of Stettin
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October 18, 2019
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23
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| S2019E85 |
The Death of Luxury Air Travel
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October 23, 2019
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41
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| S2019E86 |
John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin
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October 25, 2019
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32
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| S2019E87 |
KakigÅri: The Story of Japan's Famous Shaved Ice
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October 30, 2019
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31
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| S2019E88 |
John of Bohemia, the Blind King Who Charged Into Battle
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November 1, 2019
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31
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| S2019E89 |
Science and Spiritualism: Why were ghost stories so popular in the 1800s?
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November 5, 2019
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43
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| S2019E90 |
Rose Mackenberg: Houdini's Ghostbuster
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November 7, 2019
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39
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| S2019E91 |
That Time Germany Got Obsessed With Polar Bear Photos
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November 12, 2019
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42
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| S2019E92 |
How Bertha Heyman Conned Her Way Into Show Business
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November 14, 2019
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42
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| S2019E93 |
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
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November 20, 2019
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35
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| S2019E94 |
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
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November 20, 2019
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32
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| S2019E95 |
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2
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November 21, 2019
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33
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| S2019E96 |
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 1
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November 27, 2019
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30
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| S2019E97 |
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 2
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November 28, 2019
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21
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| S2019E98 |
The Honey Trap: Sex in Espionage Throughout History
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December 3, 2019
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29
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| S2019E99 |
French Waiters Once Had to Strike for Their Right to Wear Mustaches
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December 5, 2019
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38
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| S2019E100 |
The Strange Tradition that Forced Everyone in New York to Move House on the Same Day
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December 10, 2019
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39
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| S2019E101 |
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 1
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December 12, 2019
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26
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| S2019E102 |
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 2
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December 17, 2019
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21
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| S2019E103 |
Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels
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December 19, 2019
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47
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| S2019E104 |
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 1
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December 24, 2019
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29
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| S2019E105 |
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 2
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December 26, 2019
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24
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| S2019E106 |
The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols
series finale
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December 31, 2019
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34
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