Bio Shorts Series

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Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists

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The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace

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A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup

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Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

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Dawdling by the Danube

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The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum

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History of Las Vegas: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Entertainment Capital of the World

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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

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The English Armada: The History of the Counter Armada Sent by Queen Elizabeth to Spain in 1589

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Venetian Empire: The Grand History of the Venetians

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The Axis Powers’ Nuclear Weapons Programs: The History of Germany and Japan’s Efforts to Build an Atomic Bomb during World War II

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Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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The Life of Ancient Romans

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Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know

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The Secret Story of the Eiffel Tower

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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States

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The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist

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Historical Painters: The Legacy of the Artists from Europe

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The Greatest Generation

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Painters: Background and History of Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh

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The Dalí Legacy: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy

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Mediterranean Dictators: The Story of Benito Mussolini, Torquemada, and Francisco Pizarro

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1893 Chicago's Columbian Exposition: Arts and Culture on the Doorstep of the 20th Century

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Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

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Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures

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The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

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Tutan Hamen And The Discovery Of His Tomb

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Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

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The Secret Story of the Musee du Louvre

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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

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Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

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Down the Drain

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Uncultured: A Memoir

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Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

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Tell Me Everything: A Memoir

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The Wild Truth

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The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer

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The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

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Finding Me: A Memoir

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Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

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Own It All: How to Stop Waiting for Change and Start Creating It. Because Your Life Belongs to You.

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In the Dream House: A Memoir

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Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in my First Hundred Years

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Worthy

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

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We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

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Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

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Stash: My Life in Hiding

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My Mother Was Nuts: A Memoir

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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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Butts: A Backstory

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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

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Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt: The Creative Process: Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt: The Creative Process

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Barry Seal Part 1: The American Pilot

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Bill Gates & “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”: In an extended interview, business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates discusses his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” with Andrew Ross Sorkin. In a wide ranging conversation, Gates weighs in on Elon Musk and Tesla, the Reddit Rebellion and subsequent GameStop drama, vaccination strategies, Bitcoin, and President Biden’s policies for a greener future. 

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How Vincent van Gogh Worked: Today, Vincent van Gogh has come to fit our idea of the tortured artist. Aside from his art, he's best known for cutting off his ear and committing suicide. Yet new research debates both of these van Gogh moments. Listen in to learn more about van Gogh.

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Silicon Valley Bank is dead. The institution that was a major financier for venture capitalists, tech start-ups and other Silicon Valley outfits has collapsed. Enter: the federal government.

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Spanish Texas, Mexican Independence, and American Settlement: Long before Texas was a U. S. state, it was a part of Mexico, which in turn was part of the massive Spanish Empire. When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it became the northeastern most province of the new nation. At about that same...

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Nero #17 – Eternal Decline Part 1: Edward J. Watts is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and author and editor of several prize-winning books, including THE FINAL PAGAN GENERATION, a great book about HYPATIA, a book out about the collapse of the Roman Rep...

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Nero #18 – Eternal Decline Part 2: Edward J. Watts is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and author and editor of several prize-winning books, including THE FINAL PAGAN GENERATION, a great book about HYPATIA, a book out about the collapse of the Roman Rep...

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William Mumler and Spirit Photography in the 19th century: (Kristin) The 19th-century was on the cutting edge of some new technology and a new religious movement, and they intersected in some interesting – and surprising – ways. Find out how spirit photography became A Thing and how William Mumler “captured”...

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Espionage history: everything you wanted to know: Michael Goodman tackles listener questions and popular search queries on the history of spying and intelligence.

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What really sank the Kursk?

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Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor: Edward Shawcross describes a little-known attempt to install an Austrian archduke as emperor of Mexico in the mid-19th century

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Nazi Looted Art: Legal Remedies and Limitations: Steve and Katie discuss the Nazis’ complicated and perverse relationship with fine art with attorney and author Nicholas O’Donnell.  Nick is the author of the recent book, A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art,...

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547a Gaudí's Sagrada Familia; Globally Curious

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The Unbelievable Story of Han van Meegeren: Han van Meegeren was such a great forger, the court ordered him to prove his works were faked because nobody believed him when he admitted to his fraud.

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Ep. 59: "Matisse: The Red Studio" with Ann Temkin - The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA: A conversation with Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Our conversation focuses on MoMA’s current exhibit “Matisse: The Red Studio” which revolves around the...

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The Legacy of Ross Perot: He’s more than the caricature we all remember.

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Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 1: Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from around the world – Jari was one of them

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History of Everything: The Great Pirate Queen of China

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118 Christy Clark-Pujara, The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island: How did the smallest colony and smallest state in the union became the largest American participant in the slave trade? Christy Clark-Pujara, an Assistant Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

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Travel Trailblazers: Jessica Nabongo of The Catch Me If You Can: This week Melissa welcomes Jessica Nabongo, a writer, photographer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in the travel industry for a conversation about solo travel, the power of community, and bringing worlds, people, and cultures together. Her luxury lifestyle brand, The Catch, connects people across the world by providing small-scale artisans with a platform on which they can offer their goods to the global market.   When she landed in the Seychelles in 2019, Jessica became the first Black woman to visit every country in the world and she uses her platform - with The Catch, for example, and through her bestselling memoir, The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World - to make the travel space more inclusive. In the book, Jessica inspires women and people of color to travel freely, break down stereotypes and challenge the preexisting notions that people have about different cou

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213 Rebecca Fraser, The Pilgrims of Plimoth: In 1621, the Pilgrims of Plimoth Colony and their Wampanoag neighbors came together to celebrate their first harvest. Today we remember this event as the first Thanksgiving. But what do we really know about this holiday and the people who celebrated...

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E138: Master & Maintain Your Wealth - Chris Larsen: This week our guest is the investing and money maintenance expert Christopher Larsen. Chris is the founder and Managing Partner of Next-Level Income, through which he helps investors become financially independent through education and investment opportunities. In this episode we dive deep into how you can be managing your money better. We go into how you get started in the market, how to save on your taxes, how to manage your wealth and much more. If you’re not already taking this advice then you could be losing out on a significant amount of money annually… monthly… or even daily. So jump in and join us for this conversation supercharged with information and learnings!

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Antoni Gaudi, Part 1: You probably know Gaudi's work, even if you don't recognize his name. His distinctive architecture is featured throughout Barcelona. But his life started humbly, as the son of a Reus coppersmith.

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The Bastard Brigade - The Juice | 2

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Intifada 1.0

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Booknotes + : Stacy Schiff, "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"

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GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson: 21 year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of the...

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Leonard Bernstein 2: Bernstein and Musical Theater

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Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré: Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré, the French secret agent whose life took an extraordinary turn after her betrayal to the Germans.