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May 13, 2021 My Bizarre Reign as New York’s King of “Virgin Russian Hair”
Complete strangers wiring me $15k on the spot, smuggling blond ponytails across the Atlantic, secret rendezvous under the overpass — I just may have had the weirdest side hustle of all time.

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33 min
April 29, 2021 Queen of the S.R.O.
In gritty 1980s New York, one West Village flophouse became a last-chance refuge for addicts, criminals, LGBTQ runaways, and anyone with nowhere left to go. And my mom was their queen.

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1 hr 4 min
April 22, 2021 The Pregnant Woman Who Led a Legendary Slave Rebellion
In 1794 the people of Guadeloupe briefly tasted freedom. A woman named Solitude decided she’d rather die than go back into chains — but her heroism was nearly lost to history.

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17 min
April 15, 2021 The Great Cottonmouth-Catching Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of 1956
As a reptile-obsessed teen, I ran away to hunt lizards in the Everglades, then hatched a plan to milk venom from deadly snakes. It went even more comically wrong than you're thinking.

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27 min
April 08, 2021 The World War II Hero Who Proved It’s Possible to Beat the NRA
A half-century after he helped liberate Dachau, Felix Sparks lost his grandson to gun violence. His surprising victory reminds us how one determined person can take on political giants.

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21 min
March 31, 2021 The Royal Spy Who Became the Feminist Answer to Shakespeare
Aphra Behn was the first English woman in history to work as a professional writer. The only thing more colorful than her boundary-pushing stories was her own secretive life.

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19 min
March 25, 2021 The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock
In 1978 he was music’s next big thing. Then his album bombed, he began a long slide into obscurity, and a bizarre fraud sent him to prison. Will Dane Donohue finally get his encore?

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37 min
March 18, 2021 How I Wrote Myself into a Real-life Romantic Comedy – That Turned into a Survivalist Thriller
As a filmmaker, I thought I could write the screenplay for my own love life. When I got lost in a hailstorm at 12,000 feet, searching for my ex, I realized I desperately needed a new ending.

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48 min
March 11, 2021 The Audacious Tabloid Couple Who Scammed Their Way Into New York’s High Society
The vaudeville dancer and his beguiling Parisian wife arrived in Manhattan in 1911 with secret identities in tow. They enjoyed wealth and notoriety for years—until it all came crashing down.

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20 min
March 04, 2021 The Killer Doctor, the Swirling Fire, and the World’s Most Haunted Building
This block in Brazil has been home to one of the deadliest skyscraper disasters in history, a doctor with a murderous secret, and—some say—a curse that goes back centuries.

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20 min