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Once billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film star whose true passion was inventing. During a career in which she out-billed some of the top male actors of the era, Lamarr spent her free time nurturing her inventiveness and ideas, some of which are used in the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology of today.

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Inventive, ambitious and brave, the Wright Brothers tackled the challenge of aviation with a dedication that was hard to match. Several near misses, test flights and an unwavering commitment to flying, their historic flight at Kitty Hawk on December 14th, 1903 set in motion a revolution in how we travel over the earth.

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The Cask of Amontadillo is a macabre short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which a passion for rare wine meets the darkness of the catacombs by chasing the temptation for a taste. A prime example of Poe’s penchant for the doors that lead toward death.

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In September of 1666, The Great Fire of London swept through the central parts of the English city, raging uncontrolled for days. The flames gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, destroying 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.

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As humans on Earth busied themselves with their own endeavours during the mid-1890s, aliens on Mars began plotting an invasion of Earth because their own resources were dwindling. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first published in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. 

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A Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I, Mata Hari was at once celebrated for her allure as a provocative seductress and persecuted for it at the same time. Claiming to be of Javanese ancestry, her story is one in which she broke into the personal circles of Europe’s elite, only to be cast aside and used as a scapegoat. 

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Famous for his exceptional skill and speed as a martial artist, Bruce Lee’s rise to fame took a meandering route that included living in Hong Kong under Japanese occupation as a child, street fighting and appearing in over 20 films by the age of 18. Founder of Jeet Kune Do, or the Way of the Intercepting Fist, Lee’s untimely death led to rumours of organized crime and a family curse.

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An illiterate farm girl who claimed that the voice of God instructed her to take charge of her country's army and lead it to victory, Joan of Arc was able to convince the as-yet crowned King Charles VII to let her do it. What's more astounding is that once in charge, her swift victories led to the consecration of Charles and brought her family into nobility. A meteoric rise that ended as quickly as it began. 

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***Fair warning, this episode has some pretty gory details*** The Red Barn Murder was a notorious crime committed in Polstead, England in 1827, that provoked numerous newspaper articles, songs and plays that remained popular throughout the next century and continue to be performed today.

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The Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War, and Odysseus has still not returned home from the war after angering the god Neptune. Odysseus' son, Telemachus, is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father's house on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope and a crowd of 108 boisterous young men, "the Suitors", whose aim is to persuade Penelope to marry one of them, all the while reveling in Odysseus' palace and eating up his wealth...

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