Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop, Part 1
Frankie Manning grew up loving dance, learning and practicing in ballrooms and private parties in...
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You probably know Gaudi’s work, even if you don’t recognize his name. His distinctive...
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The Life and Times of Sir Isaac Newton
You may know the apple/gravity story, but Isaac Newton's life was so much more than that. Not...
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As has become an annual tradition on the show, we’re capping off 2015 slash starting 2016 with a...
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Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop, Part 2
Once Manning became a professional dancer and choreographer, his work took him all over the...
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the Honey War wasn't really about honey. It was a dispute over state lines. There are some bee...
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Queen Victoria: The Lady Hastings Scandal
Queen Victoria reigned for more than six decades, but her early years as ruler were peppered with...
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Casanova led a life so full of sex and adventure that today we call any particularly charismatic...
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Much like many of the other mad royals that have been discussed on the podcast through the years,...
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A Historically Inspired Gentleman's Wardrobe
Jason Merrill of Blackbird Finery joins Holly in the studio to talk about adopting the styles and...
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A Brief History of Diving Technology
Humans have always longed to explore underwater, but the need to breathe air has been an...
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While Michelangelo's sculpture of Mary holding the deceased body of Christ is the most famous...
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Hildegard was a Christian mystic of medieval Europe who was way, way ahead of her time. If she...
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The Tupac Amaru rebellion was a conflict between Spain and its colonies in South America which...
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The Shared Sign Language of Martha's Vineyard
By the early 18th century, it was not un common for people in Martha’s Vineyard to be deaf from...
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The Expulsion of the Jews From Spain
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue … and Ferdinand, king of Aragon, and Isabella, queen of...
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Suleiman the Magnificent and the Siege of Vienna
The Ottoman Empire’s Suleiman the Magnificent was a head of state, a poet, a reformer of the...
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The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which killed somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people,...
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The Mutiny and Massacre of the Batavia
While most of the survivors of the Batavia were scattered on a few tiny islands off the coast of...
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Pharaoh Djoser and Egypt’s First Pyramid
The pyramids at Giza are iconic Egyptian landmarks, but they weren't the first to appear. Djoser...
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