Best Scott Rank Phd Podcasts (2024)

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America’s First Crime Boss Was Female Immigrant Philanthropist-Turned-Criminal Mastermind 43:07

29m ago43:07

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In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth? In the intervening years, “Marm” Mandelbaum h…

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The War Under No-Man’s Land: Military Mining and Tunnel Combat in World War One 45:18

3d ago45:18

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Beneath the trench warfare of World War One existed an entirely separate war underground: battles in the mines and dugouts between the Great Powers. In 1914–17, the underground war was a product of static trench warfare, essential to survive it and part of both sides' attempts to overcome it. In the stagnant, troglodyte existence of trench warfare,…

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Eisenhower’s Logistics and Diplomatic Nightmare: Planning and Executing D-Day 1:01:35

4m ago1:01:35

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In the months leading up to D-Day, Eisenhower’s attention was in relentless demand, whether he was negotiating, rallying troops, or solving crises from his headquarters in Bushy Park, London. He projected optimism outwardly but resisted it inwardly. The day of the invasion, he gave the most rousing speech of his life, exhorting the tens of thousand…

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53 Days on Starvation Island: How The US Marines Fought on Guadalcanal While Completely Surrounded 59:08

8d ago59:08

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On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base…

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Taylor Swift finally being dethroned. 5 pop stars traumatized by Dr. Luke 1:17:51

10d ago1:17:51

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TIME STAMPS: 03:30- Ariana Grande IS NOTTT a cannibal 10:30- FUQ Zach Sang 20:00- D'Amelios are cancelled (literally!) 24:00- Taylor Swift chart OBSESSION. not a girls girl? Someone FINALLY DETHRONING her. 44:00- Trump Assaination FACTS (no fake news) 50:00- Dr Luke villain origin story 1:10:00- weekly ranking / superlatives…

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Taiwan’s 100-Year Rise From Japanese Colony to Monopoly Producer of Microchips 43:05

21m ago43:05

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When global supply chains were shut down in 2020 and messily rebooted after COVID lockdowns ceased, one island nation emerged as the most important player in getting critical components to factories around the world. That was Taiwan, which produces 90 percent of the world’s advanced semiconductors. Without this island nation of 23 million, there ar…

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When States Rights Were Emancipatory and Federalism was Restrictive: The Interbellum Constitution of 1812-1865 48:23

16m ago48:23

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Today, the words “federalism” and “originalism” are bandied about in the news almost daily, but to get at the underpinnings of these modern interpretations of constitutional law, it is essential to look at how the Constitution was being interpreted and applied during the crucial period of 1815-1861, between the end of the War of 1812 and the beginn…

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Is America Going Through a Late Roman Moment of Its Own? 46:52

14d ago46:52

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Every citizen of every state for the last two thousand years has compared his nation to Rome at some point. Americans considered Geroge Washington their Cincinnatus for taking on supreme power and giving it up once his work was done. Inflation hawks call for a Diocletian to end the debasing of national currency. Upset citizens call their leader a N…

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How Five Castaways Survived After Being Left for Dead on the Falklands in 1812 44:49

4d ago44:49

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Charles H. Barnard, captain of the American sealing brig Nanina, had only the best of intentions. His aim was to ensure the survival of the people under his care. On June 11, 1813, Barnard and four other volunteers disembarked the anchored Nanina, climbed into a small boat, and sailed about 10 miles from New Island to Beaver Island, both part of th…

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Kylie Jenner CRIES over BULLYING. Charli XCX and Lorde fix girl trauma 1:14:39

14d ago1:14:39

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3:50 Kylie Jenner cries over bullying about her looks21:15 Multiple celebrities arrested 28:30 Astronauts stuck in space33:30 Charli XCX and Lorde fix girl trauam55:00 Camila and Normani beef

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The Capetians: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France and Gave Us the Fleur-De-Lys 56:00

9d ago56:00

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If Gothic cathedrals, troubadours, and the Crusades evoke a certain picture of medieval Europe, you might be surprised that these foundations of a shared French culture continue to shape European society, all beginning with a single dynasty. Reigning from 987 to 1328, the Capetians transformed an insecure foothold around Paris into the most powerfu…

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Why the Book is Humanity’s Most Important Invention 48:55

11d ago48:55

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Even in our increasingly digitized world, the print book endures as a technology at the heart of human culture. Throughout its 550-yearhistory, the book has transformed at the hands of countless printers, bookbinders, typographers, and illustrators who have yet to see their own stories of innovation on the printed page. In “The Book-Makers: A Histo…

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How and Why Humans Started Speaking 52:45

16d ago52:45

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Most people know at least 50,000 words and speak around 16,000 per day. We speak between 120 and 200 words per minute and read them at twice that speed. We invent word games like crosswords, Scrabble, and Wordle, and we are constantly adding new terminology and slang to our dictionaries. Our love of words is no secret, but how we evolved to acquire…

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The American Detective Who Fought the Kaiser’s Spy Ring and an Anarchist Bombing Syndicate 43:28

1M ago43:28

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America in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the country, and the 1920 Wall Street bombing dominated headlines. And one man was tasked with combating these threats. Born to working-class parents in 186…

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Patton’s Tactician: Geoffrey Keys, “The Best Tactical Mind” of WWII 39:47

23d ago39:47

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Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily. Dubbed Operation Husky, the campaign to establish an Allied foothold in Sicily was led by two of the most noted American tacticians of the twentieth century: George S…

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JLO's career and marriage is in CRISIS mode. The Cyrus family is breaking apart 1:19:57

25d ago1:19:57

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4:00 Happy fathers day 6:00 JLO career crisis mode 22:00 JLO alleged divorce from Ben 29:00 happy pride month 32:00 The Cyrus family is CRAZY 46:00 The new draft for war 55:00 Justin Timberlake DUI 57:00 new music review 1:00:00 Sabrina and Taylor drama? (skims ad) 1:05:00 Joe Alwyn says which song is NOT about him 1:08:00 Weekly rating / superlati…

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The Seven Cleopatras Who Ruled Egypt 46:49

25d ago46:49

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Behind the legendary, singular figure of Cleopatra stood six other women who bore her name. The infamous Cleopatra we think we know was actually the seventh queen in a long line of powerful female rulers whose stories have been lost to history. The seven queens named Cleopatra, ruling from 192–30 BC, defied the stereotype of the nameless, faceless …

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Modern Black Ops Warfare Began with a British WW2 Operation to Steal Boats Off Africa’s Coast 52:46

1M ago52:46

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When France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to secretly develop of a very special kind of military unit that would operate on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. The units would be licensed to ki…

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The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Were Colossal, Prone to Destruction, and Not All May Have Existed 46:45

1M ago46:45

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For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. E…

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Being the Ultimate Constitutional Originalist in 2024 Means Donning a Tricorn Hat and Applying to Practice Piracy 46:24

1M ago46:24

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Many decisions impacting the lives of Americans today adhere to a set of rules established over 200 years ago. The Constitution is in the news more than ever as politicians and Supreme Court justices battle over how literally it should be taken. Did the framers intend for Americans to follow their instructions as written for eternity? Or did they w…

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The Last Time Humanity Believed in Unstoppable Progress: Paris in the Belle Époque (1871-1914) 46:46

2M ago46:46

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Many of the specific features we associate with Paris today – impressive sites like the Eiffel Tower and Sacré Coeur, French cinemas, and even the distinguished Art Nouveau Metro entrances – were born out the period of the Belle Époque. This era, which lasted from the later 19th century up to the beginning of World War I, is oft characterized as on…

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The Silk Road Travel Adventures of a 16th Century Mughal Princess and Her Massive Royal Retinue 41:35

2M ago41:35

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To most Westerners, the Mughal Empire is a forgotten stepchild of world history. Even though it produced the Taj Mahal and controlled nearly all modern-day India, the Mughal Dynasty’s accomplishments are crowded out by those of the Romans, Chinese, and British. Nevertheless, it was a great Asian power from the 16th-19th centuries, comparable to the…

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The Months Leading up to the Civil War That Inflamed North-South Tensions from Animosity to Murderous Hatred 36:37

2M ago36:37

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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern radicals were moving ever closer to dividing the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focu…

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LSD’s Origins in Nazi Germany Brain-Washing Experiments, the CIA’s MKUltra Program, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age 43:39

2M ago43:39

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LSD has been banned in the United States for decades and became a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance in 1970, but it has experienced a resurgence among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to overcome mental roadblocks and psychiatrists running tests to use it as a treatment for addiction, PTSD, and other mental illnesses. But what few know is that LSD has it…

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How Duke Ellington and Other Jazzmen Became America’s First Globally Famous Musicians 42:37

2M ago42:37

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The first globally famous American musicians weren’t part of the 50s rock wave that included Elvis Pressly or Chuck Berry. They were three 3 jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie. While their music is well-known, their background stories aren’t. Duke…

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Why America Could Have a Presidential Succession Crisis 20:33

2M ago20:33

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America has an unmatched record when it comes to the peaceful transfer of power. According to legal scholar Roy E. Brownell II, however, our country is not that far off from a presidential succession crisis. In this preview of an episode of "This American President," hosted by Richard Lim, Brownell covers the history of presidential succession and …

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Dunkirk from the German Perspective 39:03

3M ago39:03

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The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history. The battle has captured the popular imagination through LIFE magazine photo spreads, the fiction of Ian McEwan and, of course, Christopher Nolan's hugely successful Hollywood blockbuster. But what is the German view of …

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The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific 39:10

2M ago39:10

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Naval warfare is an overlooked factor of the Civil War, but it was a vitally important part of overall strategy for North and South, especially from the perspective of the Union, which used naval blockages from the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River to deny critical resources to the Confederacy, forcing them the ultimately surrender. But the nava…

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Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards 39:03

2M ago39:03

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In the United States, questions of how we celebrate – or condemn – leaders in the past have never been more contentious. In 2017, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed – leading to a race riot and terrorist attack. But in 2020, statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, and even Ulysses S. Grant were defaced or toppled. A…

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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic 49:04

2M ago49:04

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One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of wirele…

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Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma? 42:48

3M ago42:48

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Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and beyond. Thei…

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The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened? 34:54

3M ago34:54

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There’s nothing in human DNA that makes the 40-hour workweek a biological necessity. In fact, for much of human history, 15 hours of work a week was the standard, followed by leisure time with family and fellow tribe members, telling stories, painting, dancing, and everything else. Work was a means to an end, and nothing else. So what happened? Why…

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Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time 51:04

3M ago51:04

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Before 9/11, before Pearl Harbor, another unsuspected foreign attack on the United States shocked the nation and forever altered the course of history. In 1916, Pancho Villa, a guerrilla fighter who commanded an ever-changing force of conscripts in northern Mexico, attached a border town in New Mexico. It was a raid that angered Americans, and Pres…

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Decoding all the scathing TEA on The Tortured Poets Department 1:38:36

3M ago1:38:36

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03:00 my review of TTPD 10:00 The mixed critical reviews of TTPD 20:00 TTPD prologue 27:00 Tea decoding of all men commences (joe, matty, travis)

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A Radical Abolitionist Youth Movement Consumed America in 1860, Elected Lincoln, Then Disappeared Completely 43:49

3M ago43:49

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At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young white and black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing…

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Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals 43:13

3M ago43:13

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The influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been profound. Even today, over two thousand years after his death, he remains one of the most renowned humans to have ever lived—and his death remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries. There is another side to this story: impiety, lack of reverence for the gods, was a religious crim…

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Ranking the Kardashians least to most problematic (special guest: Spill Sesh) 45:13

3M ago45:13

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We get right into the tea in todays class with my iconic guest - my co professor for the day - Spill Sesh. We deconstruct each Kardashian sisters history of scandals, controversies, and apologies (or lack there of). With a definitive ranking of least to most problematic at the end. Enjoy students.

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The Age of Discovery Through American-Indian Eyes 44:17

3M ago44:17

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A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. So, when Europeans arrived in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand, having developed differently from their own, and whose power they often underestimated. And no civilization came to a halt when a few wandering explorers arr…

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A Short History of the Sioux Wars (1862-1890) 25:22

3M ago25:22

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War, Conflict, Victory & Defeat. These are all aspects of life that some may have to face. This was true for the various groups of the Sioux Tribes. On today's bonus episode from "Key Battles of American History" join host James Early as he discusses the multiple wars that took place between 1862-1890, collectively known as "The Sioux Wars"…

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The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured 38:44

4M ago38:44

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In an obscure village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England—the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade—known to early Americans as “The Old Indian Door”—constructed from doub…

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The Dangerous and Thrilling Life of a 19th-Century Whaler 46:49

3M ago46:49

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In mid-nineteenth century New England, Robert Armstrong was a young man with the world at his feet. His family was wealthy and gave him the opportunity to attend the nation’s first dental school. But Armstrong threw his future away, drinking himself into oblivion. Devoured by guilt and shame, in December 1849 he sold his dental instruments, his wat…

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JLO exposed as terrible person. Jojo Siwa rebrand distracting from crimes 1:41:37

3M ago1:41:37

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TIME STAMPS: 6:45 Dating shows under investigation 15:00 Proof that JLO is a terrible person 35:00 Jojo Siwa using rebrand to distract! 57:00 Ariana Grande saved her reputation 1:19:00 Patty catch up 1:31:00 My thoughts on new music

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Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor 41:02

3M ago41:02

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Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century’s most colorful politicians―a 5’2’’ ball of energy who led New York as major during the Depression and World War Two, charming the media during press conference and fighting the dirty machine politics of the city. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in so…

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How the West Tried and Failed to Stop the Russian Revolution 41:33

4M ago41:33

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The Allied Intervention into the Russian Civil War remains one of the most ambitious yet least talked about military ventures of the 20th century. Coinciding with the end of the first World War, some 180,000 troops from several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, Greece, Poland, and Romania, among others…

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Kings Were Inevitable and Untouchable Until They Suddenly Weren’t After a Few 1700s Revolutions 42:51

4M ago42:51

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, two waves of revolutions swept the Atlantic world, disrupting the social order and ushering in a new democratic-republican experiment whose effects rippled across continents and centuries. The first wave of revolutions in the late 1700s (which included the much-celebrated American and French Revolutions and th…

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The Fall Of Japanese-held Hong Kong in January 1945 38:56

4M ago38:56

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Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from …

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WW1 German Spies Infiltrated America and Attempted to Start a Race War 34:34

4M ago34:34

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On January 30, 1918, a young man “with the appearance of a well-educated, debonair foreigner” arrived at the U.S. customs station in Nogales, Arizona, located on the border with Mexico. After politely informing the customs inspector that he had come to complete his draft registration questionnaire and meet a friend in San Francisco, he was approved…

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The Air Battles of the 1945 Eastern Front Forged Air Force Doctrines of the Cold War 38:10

4M ago38:10

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The last months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw a ferocious fight between two very different air forces. Soviet Air Force (VVS) Commander-in-Chief Alexander Novikov assembled 7,500 aircraft in three powerful air armies to support the final assault on Berlin. The Luftwaffe employed some of its most advanced weapons including the Me 262 jet …

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The First Pre-Columbian Explorers to Reach North America 10:52

4M ago10:52

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Have you ever wondered if there was a group to reach North America before Christopher Columbus? Find out more in today's bonus episode from another Parthenon podcast "History of North America." Join host Mark Vinet as he discusses the search for the first non-indigenous explorers to reach the North American continent prior to Christopher Columbus’ …

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A Classicist Believes that Homer Directly Dictated the Iliad, and Was Also an Excellent Horseman 53:18

4M ago53:18

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The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? To explore these questions is today’s guest, Robin Lane Fox, a scholar and teacher of Homer for over 40…

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