Jan Palach: The Ultimate Sacrifice Against Soviet Tyranny

3 Aug 2024

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Franz von Werra: The One who Got Away #sponsored

24 Jun 2025

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Vito Genovese: The Mafia's Deadliest Don

28 Sep 2023

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Wernher von Braun - Journey to the Moon

14 Nov 2022

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The Enlightenment: Stumbling in the Darkness

20 Feb 2024

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The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of the Modern World

7 Nov 2023

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The years of the Industrial Revolution are not clearly defined, but the period spanned both the American and French Revolutions, the expansion of empires into the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the opening of the American West. It began in the 1700s with a shift in one of humanity’s oldest necessities, the need to make cloth to protect their bodies from the elements. The textile industry was the first to be mechanized, to create modern manufacturing and shipping methods, even the first to adopt supply-side engineering, though it wasn’t yet called that. Here is the story of the Industrial Revolution, described by some historians as “…the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing”.

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Sean Connery: Fame, James Bond, and Controversy

5 Oct 2023

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Sean Connery rose to fame in the 1960s portraying a British secret agent. He became part of that decade’s British Invasion, which saw music, films, television programming, and fashion from the United Kingdom overwhelm cultures in Europe and North America. Yet throughout his long life, Connery recoiled at being called British. He was, loudly and proudly, a son of Scotland. He called himself a Scot and wore a clan’s kilt when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.

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John C Fremont: The Pathfinder

25 Apr 2024

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John Charles Frémont was an explorer, topologist, botanist, soldier, politician, railroad tycoon, gold miner, abolitionist, and one of the most controversial entities in the opening of the American West. He achieved fame and infamy, wealth and destitution, military command and court-martial. His life was as up and down, challenging and exhilarating, as the trails he blazed across the continent.

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David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of the Real Ziggy Stardust

18 Oct 2021

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Norman Rockwell: The Most Iconic American Artist?

9 Jan 2025

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