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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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    Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up Dec 26, 2018
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    We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, Ida B. Wells, who was an investigative journalist, an anti-lynching activist, a suffragette and a teacher.

    Big Bird and the genius inside Dec 25, 2018
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    We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, the story of Caroll Spinney and his iconic character Big Bird.

    The military’s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number Dec 24, 2018
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    In the 1950s, a child trying to call Santa Claus accidentally called NORAD and changed Christmas Eve forever.

    The Christmas Truce Dec 21, 2018
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    During the first Christmas of World War I, a miracle took place all along the Europe’s Western Front.

    A piece of punctuation that failed to leave its mark Dec 20, 2018
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    A new punctuation mark called the interrobang found its way onto some typewriters in the 1960s, but it never caught on.

    President Grant fired his own special prosecutor Dec 19, 2018
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    In 1875, Ulysses S. Grant hired a special prosecutor to investigate the Whiskey Ring scandal. Furious with his findings, Grant had him fired.

    The first presidential press conference Dec 18, 2018
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    Before 1913, the presidential press conference didn’t exist. But a president who liked reporters changed that.

    The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court Dec 17, 2018
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    After being fired from his job for being gay, Frank Kameny took his battle for equality to the nation’s highest court.

    The policeman who arrested a president Dec 14, 2018
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    After receiving complaints about carriages driving too fast, Washington D.C. policeman William H. West arrested a presidential speed demon.

    One of the ugliest speaker fights in congressional history Dec 13, 2018
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    In 1859, the House went to war over Rep. John Sherman’s bid for leadership.

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