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**Retropod**

Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters – forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.

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The rainless flood that destroyed a city Jun 27, 2019

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In 1868, Ellicott City, Md. flooded. The lack of rain made the natural disaster totally bizarre and unexpected.

How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady Jun 26, 2019

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Eleanor Roosevelt held news conferences just for female reporters. The men were not impressed.

The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools Jun 25, 2019

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Linda Brown and her father Oliver Brown are heroes of the civil rights movement. The backstory of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education is more complicated than what you learned in school.

The origins of the National Rifle Association Jun 24, 2019

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When the NRA was founded in 1871, its primary concern was not gun rights or the Second Amendment.

How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini Jun 21, 2019

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Designer Louis Réard left automotive engineering to work in his mother’s lingerie business. He decided to compete with another design to create the world’s smallest swimsuit.

The man who won World War II Jun 20, 2019

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Andrew Higgins wasn't in the Army. He wasn't a paratrooper. He was a wild and wily genius, a tough, crafty, businessman. And he built the built the boats that brought troops ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Oregon was America’s first and only state to begin as 'whites-only' Jun 19, 2019

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Oregon’s original constitution banned black people from the state, and the law stayed in the constitution for well over 100 years.

Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections Jun 18, 2019

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'A Wrinkle in Time' author Madeleine L'Engle said she received 26 rejection letters from publishers.

This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him Jun 17, 2019

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The man who called the police on the Watergate burglars never received the credit he deserved.

A history of extreme makeovers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Jun 14, 2019

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When the White House was built over 200 years ago, it lacked certain modern conveniences. A hodgepodge of improvements have been added over the years.

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